Will COVID-19 mark the end of scientific publishing as we know it?

peter.suber's bookmarks 2020-08-04

Summary:

"Under the pressure of a global health crisis, the argument for open access has sunk in. Following calls from the World Health Organization and government leaders, over 150 publishers, companies, and research institutions have agreed to temporarily make all content related to COVID-19 free to read, ensuring efforts to understand the virus can go forth undeterred....

Is this the catalyst that breaks up the bonds of an old publishing model once and for all? ..."

Link:

https://phys.org/news/2020-08-covid-scientific-publishing.html

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Tags:

oa.new oa.medicine oa.humanitarian oa.publishing oa.speed oa.partial oa.preprints oa.ingelfinger oa.embargoes oa.data oa.journals oa.policies.journals oa.policies.journals.data oa.versions

Date tagged:

08/04/2020, 14:24

Date published:

08/04/2020, 10:24