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Looking back on a year of gobbledygook

A year ago today I wrote my first blog post on Nature Network (Open access may become mandatory for NIH-funded research). This is blog post #84 one year later and a good time to reflect on...

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FDAAA: Push to open data in clinical medicine

In 2005 registration of clinical trials in publicly available databases before the first patient was entered became mandatory for papers submitted to the most important medical journals. In September of last year, U.S. President Bush...

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Article downloads and citations of open access papers

The British Medical Journal this week published Open access publishing, article downloads, and citations: randomised controlled trial by Phlip Davis et al. There are already several publications that looked at the full paper downloads and citations...

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