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Florian Mann,

Benedikt von Walter,

Thomas Hess,

Rolf T. WigandAuthors Info & Claims

Communications of the ACM, Volume 52, Issue 3

Pages 135 - 139

https://doi.org/10.1145/1467247.1467279

Published: 01 March 2009 Publication History

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While the evolving information society is freely opening and sharing its diaries, social networks and source codes, it remains to be seen if the same will come true for scientific knowledge. Despite strong sympathy for the idea, scientists balk at Open Access publishing. Here we shed some light on why this is so.

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Being Human in the Digital Age

March 2009

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DOI:10.1145/1467247

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