Publishers working together – lessons from a global pandemic | Hindawi

peter.suber's bookmarks 2020-07-07

Summary:

"In response to the current pandemic, a group of  publishers and scholarly communication organizations came together to ensure research related to COVID-19 is reviewed and published as quickly as possible. They produced an Open Letter of Intent encouraging academics to sign up to a reviewer database, authors to use preprint servers, and calling other publishers to join the initiative as well as supporting through open data and encouraging preprints.

Join us on July 8, 2020 at 4pm BST for a Q&A roundtable on the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on cross-publisher collaboration, the benefits of having key research reviewed and published as quickly possible, as well as plans for the future. 

  • Is large-scale collaboration among publishers and organizations sustainable for the long term? 

  • What are the main constraints and how can we overcome these challenges? 

The changes this pandemic has precipitated within the STM industry will hopefully turn out to be long-lasting, and push the ideas of Open Science and the boundaries of collaboration to the forefront of all publishers' minds...."

Link:

https://www.hindawi.com/post/publishers-working-together-lessons-global-pandemic/

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Date tagged:

07/07/2020, 10:38

Date published:

07/07/2020, 06:38