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An overlay journal performs all the activities of a scholarly journal and relies on structural links with one or more archives or repositories to perform its activities. paper offers a briefing on the contribution overlay journals can make to scholarly communication. It explains what ‘overlay’ services are, how overlay journals have evolved and what makes their contribution to scholarly communication so valuable.
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