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by Annelise Doll
When a couple of biologists began their journey to share everything they knew about fruit flies, they didn’t plan on publishing a multivolume encyclopedia. But as Annelise Doll (Van Pelt and Opie Library) explains in her Unscripted guest blog, when the pages piled up, the team needed a place to publish that provided easy access.
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