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Copyrights and digitizing the systematic literature: the horror... the horror...
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Copyrights and digitizing the systematic literature: the horror... the horror...

  • N. Dean Pentcheff1 

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It is time for us to take full advantage of the investment that our societies have made in documenting the biodiversity of the world. It is time for us to fully, and legally, make systematic literature available worldwide. Using U.S. "Fair Use" guidelines, we can.

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Pentcheff, N. Copyrights and digitizing the systematic literature: the horror... the horror.... Nat Prec (2010). https://doi.org/10.1038/npre.2010.4644.1

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