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...from peer-reviewed publishing in a journal.  Accelerating Scientific Communication Preprints have been...Fig. 1: Stand aside, CERN - it's a new age of accelerating science! Photo courtesy of under a CC license...attendees to read and comment online! Want the general public (say, policymakers or community organizations...

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