Viral Open Access in Times of a Global Pandemic · punctum books

peter.suber's bookmarks 2020-08-05

Summary:

"In recent weeks, the COVID-19 pandemic has led to numerous calls for scientific research concerning the virus and the disease to be made open access and freely available to the public. These calls stand in a tense relationship not only with the profit-driven approach to medical research by pharmaceutical companies,1 but also with the business models of the for-profit academic publishing oligopoly, dominated by a few companies making excessive profit margins that are essentially subsidized by public funds.2 The current pandemic makes abundantly clear that the public availability of public knowledge indeed saves lives – but it doesn’t do so only now, it always does.

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Link:

https://punctumbooks.pubpub.org/pub/viral-open-access-global-pandemic-covid-19-corona/release/3

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Tags:

oa.new oa.video oa.publishing oa.medicine oa.humanitarian

Date tagged:

08/05/2020, 13:05

Date published:

08/05/2020, 09:05