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From coalition to commons: Plan S and the future of scholarly communication Cover

From coalition to commons: Plan S and the future of scholarly communication

By: Rob Johnson  
Open Access
|Jan 2019

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DOI: https://doi.org/10.1629/uksg.453 | Journal eISSN: 2048-7754
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Submitted on: Nov 5, 2018
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