{"id":1049,"date":"2020-03-11T09:15:17","date_gmt":"2020-03-11T14:15:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.acu.edu\/scholarslab\/?p=1049"},"modified":"2020-03-11T09:15:17","modified_gmt":"2020-03-11T14:15:17","slug":"the-coronavirus-and-scholarly-communications","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.acu.edu\/scholarslab\/2020\/03\/11\/the-coronavirus-and-scholarly-communications\/","title":{"rendered":"The Coronavirus and Scholarly Communications"},"content":{"rendered":"<h1 style=\"text-align: center\">\u201cThe responsible thing to do is to make all research freely available during epidemics or possibly pandemics where there are people at risk\u201d<\/h1>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\">-Edward Campion, executive editor of <em>New England Journal of Medicine (NEJM)<\/em><\/p>\n<p>One of my favorite ScholComm blogs, <a href=\"https:\/\/scholarlykitchen.sspnet.org\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">The Scholarly Kitchen<\/a>, published a blog post today about how the Coronavirus is affecting the world of scholarly communications. Biomedical journals are trying to rapidly publish peer-reviewed research on the virus, while at the same time universities and conferences are being shut down or cancelled all over the world, which slows down research output. According to an <a href=\"https:\/\/www.the-scientist.com\/news-opinion\/journals-open-access-to-coronavirus-resources--67105\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">article published by <em>The Scientist<\/em><\/a> in mid-February, nearly &#8220;100 academic journals, societies, institutes and companies have signed a commitment to make research and data on COVID-19 freely available.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s a unique time, and the world of scholarly communications is not immune (sorry for the pun) to the rippling effects of the Coronavirus.<\/p>\n<p>Check out the Scholarly Kitchen&#8217;s blog post <a href=\"https:\/\/scholarlykitchen.sspnet.org\/2020\/03\/11\/making-a-plan-when-planning-is-impossible\/?informz=1\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u201cThe responsible thing to do is to make all research freely available during epidemics or possibly pandemics where there are<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6575,"featured_media":1054,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"The Coronavirus and Scholarly Communications","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[143221,143227,208098],"tags":[205425,208100,143221,143248,198651],"class_list":["post-1049","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-open-access","category-scholarly-communication","category-world-news","tag-coronavirus","tag-covid-19","tag-open-access","tag-scholarly-communications","tag-scholarly-kitchen","comments-off"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/blogs.acu.edu\/scholarslab\/files\/2020\/03\/virus-1812092_1920.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p9Vb94-gV","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.acu.edu\/scholarslab\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1049","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.acu.edu\/scholarslab\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.acu.edu\/scholarslab\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.acu.edu\/scholarslab\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/6575"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.acu.edu\/scholarslab\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1049"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.acu.edu\/scholarslab\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1049\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1053,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.acu.edu\/scholarslab\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1049\/revisions\/1053"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.acu.edu\/scholarslab\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1054"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.acu.edu\/scholarslab\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1049"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.acu.edu\/scholarslab\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1049"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.acu.edu\/scholarslab\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1049"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}