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Tuesday, May 19, 2020
Open-Access Publishing and the Coronavirus
Some publishers are
moving toward an open model, prompted by COVID-19.
The unrestricted
sharing of scientific papers during the coronavirus pandemic may have hastened
the shift toward more open-access publishing, scientists believe, as several
leading journals move to make content publicly available.
Following are some
Publishers:
Britain’s
Biochemical Society became the
latest organization to make all of its published content free to view, citing
the “extraordinary times with the current Covid-19 pandemic” as its reason for
lifting paywalls on its Portland Press imprint until further notice
Springer
Nature, announced on
April 8, to offer researchers a route to publishing open access in Nature and most Nature-branded journals
from 2021
Elsevier
title, Neuron, to demand a similar switch to open access.
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