Open AccessCOVID-19 demonstrates the value of open access: What happens next?
Author(s) -
Willa Liburd Tavernier
Publication year - 2020
Publication title -
college and research libraries news
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.281
H-Index - 23
eISSN - 2150-6698
pISSN - 0099-0086
DOI - 10.5860/crln.81.5.226
Subject(s) - covid-19 , scientific publishing , publishing , open science , value (mathematics) , open access publishing , political science , library science , computer science , medicine , disease , infectious disease (medical specialty) , law , virology , physics , pathology , astronomy , machine learning , outbreak
In the wake of COVID-19, many publishers have tacitly agreed that open access is beneficial to scientific advancement and necessary to move science forward to combat disease. Publishers have committed to open access publication of scientific articles relating to the disease. Some are facilitating rapid and open peer review and fast-tracking the publishing of related research. Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist Michael Hiltzig refers to this convincing demonstration of the value of open access to scientific research as one of the most important positive disruptions caused by COVID-19.