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The self-archiving initiative

Nature volume 410, pages 1024–1025 (2001)Cite this article

An Erratum to this article was published on 31 May 2001

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Harnad, S. The self-archiving initiative. Nature 410, 1024–1025 (2001). https://doi.org/10.1038/35074210

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