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Publisher under fire for fake article webpages

Nature volume 535, page 11 (2016)Cite this article

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'Trap’ URLs can help publishers to catch automated downloading, but critics say that the approach is clumsy.

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Becker, R. Publisher under fire for fake article webpages. Nature 535, 11 (2016). https://doi.org/10.1038/535011f

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