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      More Than Just Access: Delivering on a Network-Enabled Literature

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          To truly gain the benefits of open access, we need to look beyond “access" and ensure that open-access publishing enables re-use, legally and technically, to fully exploit opportunities provided by the worldwide web.

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          Why Full Open Access Matters

          This perspective explains the mechanics of copyright and scholarly publishing and warns authors who support open-access publishing about a new pseudo open-access publishing model in which authors pay but publishers still retain commercial reuse rights.
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            PLoS Biol
            PLoS Biol
            plos
            plosbiol
            PLoS Biology
            Public Library of Science (San Francisco, USA )
            1544-9173
            1545-7885
            October 2012
            October 2012
            23 October 2012
            : 10
            : 10
            : e1001417
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            [1]Advocacy Director, PLOS, Cambridge, United Kingdom
            Author notes

            The author is an employee of PLOS whose salary is supported by PLOS income derived from the publication of open-access papers.

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            PBIOLOGY-D-12-03752
            10.1371/journal.pbio.1001417
            3479106
            23109911
            2c40e549-30cb-419a-b5c4-5156d146c750
            Copyright @ 2012

            This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author and source are credited.

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            Biology

            Life sciences
            Life sciences

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