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* Ushering in a new age of scientific publishing
Dr Harold Varmus,
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* How to survive as a society publisher in the
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Elizabeth Marincola, Chief Executive of the
American Society for Cell Biology
* What's wrong with how we judge science?
Barry P Markovitz, Washington University School
of Medicine
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Getting to grips with E.coli
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DNA loops and semicatenated DNA junctions
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BMC Structural Biology 2000 1(1): 1-1
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* BMC in the News
American Medical Publishers Association Newsletter
In the race to enrich the way scientific information
is produced and distributed in the digital age, are
journal publishers committing economic suicide?
AMPA Newsletter, Volume 21, Number 3, July, 2000
Nature Structural Biology
Free access?
The Internet has raised our expectations of what we
should be able to get for free and how quickly we
should be able to get it. In the biomedical research
community, the side effect of the Internet's success
is clearly being felt - and is causing many to rethink
certain standard practices and policies.
Nature Structural Biology,
Volume 7, Number 8, August 2000, p.609
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