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Open access: The true cost of science publishing
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- Authors
- Van Noorden, R.
- Venue
- Nature
- Published
- 2013-03-27
- Volume
- 495
- Issue
- 7442
- Pages
- 426-429
- ISSN
- 0028-0836
- 1476-4687
- Cited by
- 338
- References
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- Language
- en
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