Retrovirology

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Open Access Editorial

Mohmmar Qadaffi, Open Access, and Retrovirology

Kuan-Teh Jeang

Author Affiliations

the National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, MD, USA

Retrovirology 2004, 1:24 doi:10.1186/1742-4690-1-24

Published: 3 September 2004

Abstract

Retrovirology has been publishing as an Open Access online journal for approximately six months. In this editorial, I review the reasons for and the advantages of Open Access publishing, update our progress to date, and summarize where we intend to go with this journal.