title: Free market science.
abstract: Information exchange in biology has already been enriched by online-only journals, databases, blogs and conference webcasting, but now Nature Precedings, an open access document sharing tool, aims to bring the community in line with the physical sciences, which have long used preprint servers.
mesh_terms: D001690:Biological Science Disciplines; D016206:Databases, Bibliographic; D009862:Online Systems; D010506:Periodicals as Topic; D011643:Publishing