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Controlled publication of digital scientific data

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How to balance free and open access to scientific data with privileged access to new results by authors while protecting them from being scooped by competing interpretations of their own data.

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          cover image Communications of the ACM
          Communications of the ACM  Volume 45, Issue 5
          The Adaptive Web
          May 2002
          94 pages
          ISSN:0001-0782
          EISSN:1557-7317
          DOI:10.1145/506218
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