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Every month, more than 20,000 scientific manuscripts by authors from around the world are posted on the preprint repository arXiv, the oldest and best-known preprint site. Now researchers uploading their work to the site are facing a new requirement: from 11 February, all submissions must be either written in English or accompanied by a full English translation.
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