So I searched for "Genome sequence" on the Nature site
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And, well, I found a doozy of an example of a paper that is supposed to be openly available but is not. Initial sequencing and analysis of the human genome
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That's right. The "public" human genome paper is not freely or openly available. It is $4.99 to rent or $20 to purchase. Is this Nature's way of saying "We think the Lander et al. paper did not actually report on a genome?" and that the Venter paper truly won the race? I don't think so. I think this is a way of Nature saying "How can we make money off of our past papers? Which one gets a lot of looks? What? It is freely available? Change that." or something like that.
Want to bet they will say this is a mistake? Want to bet they will not refund anybody's money who paid for this?
Here is a simple solution for everyone out there. Do not trust Nature Publishing Group to make something available even if they say they will.
UPDATE 9/25 1 PM
But wait - there is more. The Plasmodium genome paper, which I wrote about in 2012 not being available and which Nature promised to fix is again behind a pay wall
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And more
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UPDATE 10/16/17
Nature has apologized and said they fixed the issue and will refund any money people spent to buy these articles
— Nature Research (@nresearchnews) October 16, 2017
— Nature Research (@nresearchnews) October 16, 2017
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