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Open journals that piggyback on arXiv gather momentum

Peer-review platforms built around online pre-print repositories spread to astrophysics.

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Gibney, E. Open journals that piggyback on arXiv gather momentum. Nature 530, 117–118 (2016). https://doi.org/10.1038/nature.2015.19102

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