In this untitled post, the PLoS leadership group responded to the editorial note "Is a Government Archive the Best Option?" in Science (March 23, 2001): 2319, which responded to Roberts, Varmus, et al., "A GenBank of the Scientific Literature" (Ibid., p. 2318) These two pieces really captured PLoS's arguments as well as those of many scientific publishers.
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