Wellcome mandates publication before peer review in health crises

Organisation joins Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation in signing up to the Plan S open-access initiative

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November 5, 2018

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November 6, 2018

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Crisis management: the Wellcome Trust’s head of open research stressed that disseminating data on diseases such as Ebola is in line with its mission to improve world health

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