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INSPIRE, the central information resource of the high-energy physics community, pioneered the open dissemination of scientific literature. It has been evolving to keep up with the new technologies and it is not slowing down.

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The author wishes to thank T. Schwander, H. O'Connell and K. Sachs for reviewing a draft of this article.

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  1. Bernard L. Hecker is at SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory, Menlo Park, California 94025, USA,

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Hecker, B. Four decades of open science. Nature Phys 13, 523–525 (2017). https://doi.org/10.1038/nphys4160

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