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Trouble at the text mine

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Computers can rapidly scan through thousands of research papers to make useful connections, but work is being slowed by publishers' unease.

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  • 08 March 2012

    In the original article, the BioNOT project was incorrectly located at the University of Wisconsin-Madison instead of the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee. This has now been changed.

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Van Noorden, R. Trouble at the text mine. Nature 483, 134–135 (2012). https://doi.org/10.1038/483134a

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