The current coronavirus crisis demonstrates the value of open access to scientific research. Columnist hiltzikm explains:
The bitter battle between the University of California, a leading source of published research papers, and Elsevier, the world’s largest publisher of research papers, just got more bitter.
The rapid sharing of information has also sped the process of developing a vaccine for the virus, though experts warn that the necessity of perfecting and adequately testing the vaccine could mean a delay of a year or more in its availability. Analyses rebutting the findings appeared promptly and the authors withdrew their paper, though their claims were widely circulated by conspiracy theorists. BioRxiv placedcautioning that papers appearing there were not peer-reviewed and shouldn’t be treated as conclusive.
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