Retrovirology
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The impact of freely accessible knowledge distribution platforms is briefly discussed.
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What are the purposes of prizes and recognitions? Are they lagging indicators of past achievements or leading indicators of things to come?
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Retrovirology provides the opportunity for readers to post comments online for all published articles. These comments are moderated by the journal editors and are often peer reviewed prior to posting. Retrovirology welcomes comments, but asks that they be written civilly.
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The 2007 M. Jeang Retrovirology Prize has been awarded to Dr. Karen L. Beemon.
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The internet is expanding the realm of scientific publishing to include free and open public debate of published papers. Journals are beginning to support web posting of comments on their published articles and independent organizations are providing centralized web sites for posting comments about any published article. The trend promises to give one and all access to read and contribute to cutting edge scientific criticism and debate.