INSPIRE, the central information resource of the high-energy physics community, pioneered the open dissemination of scientific literature. It has been evolving to keep up with the new technologies and it is not slowing down.
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Hecker, B. Four decades of open science. Nature Phys 13, 523–525 (2017). https://doi.org/10.1038/nphys4160
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