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. 2008 Nov;9(4):240-2.

Open access: the alternative to subscription-based medical publishing

Suleman S Ahmed  1 , Quoc-Phong Tran, Mark I Langdorf, Susan Lessick, Shahram Lotfipour
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Open access: the alternative to subscription-based medical publishing

Suleman S Ahmed et al. West J Emerg Med. 2008 Nov.
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