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Nature 456, 870 (18 December 2008) | doi:10.1038/456870b; Published online 17 December 2008

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Online archives are revealing uncensored history of science

William Burns1

  1. Diamantina Institute for Cancer, Immunology and Metabolic Medicine, University of Queensland, Princess Alexandra Hospital, Ipswich Road, Woolloongabba, Queensland 4102, Australia
    Email: w.burns@uq.edu.au

Search engines are invaluable for finding out about the latest research but, thanks to publishers' efforts to digitize back issues of scientific journals, we can now also search deep into the past. And what turns up isn't necessarily pretty.