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HAVE SOME SIGNATORIES OF A COVID-19 LITERATURE OPEN ACCESS AGREEMENT RENEGED ON THEIR PROMISE?

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Title HAVE SOME SIGNATORIES OF A COVID-19 LITERATURE OPEN ACCESS AGREEMENT RENEGED ON THEIR PROMISE?
 
Creator Teixeira da Silva, Jaime A.
Okagbue, Hilary I.
 
Subject Open Access; Open Data; Open Science; Public Health; Transparency
 
Description Coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) is one of humanity’s greatest modern socio-medical challenges. Cognizant of the serious nature of this pandemic, and before it was characterized as such, the Wellcome Trust in the UK took the bold and important initiative to call on publishers to make any research related to COVID-19 open access (OA) and encourage them to adopt open data (OD) policies. In a public statement, many publishers of subscription-based and OA journals agreed that all literature related to COVID-19 would be OA as a service to the public, society and humanity. Despite that stated agreement, evidence indicates that not all literature pertaining to this pandemic or virus is OA. In thus study, Web of Science data (August 4, 2021) indicates that 83.7% of 2020 COVID-19-related literature (78.4% for 2021; average of 81.2%) is OA, i.e., an average of 19.8% in 2020 and 2021 was not OA. It is not clear why that literature is not OA. Signatories of that Wellcome Trust-coordinated statement should offer a public explanation, or abandon being signatories.
 
Publisher Universitas Pendidikan Indonesia
 
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Date 2022-11-15
 
Type info:eu-repo/semantics/article
info:eu-repo/semantics/publishedVersion
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Format application/pdf
 
Identifier https://ejournal.upi.edu/index.php/edulib/article/view/47333
10.17509/edulib.v12i2.47333
 
Source Edulib; Vol 12, No 2 (2022); 114-122
2528-2182
2089-6549
10.17509/edulib.v12i2
 
Language eng
 
Relation https://ejournal.upi.edu/index.php/edulib/article/view/47333/pdf
https://ejournal.upi.edu/index.php/edulib/article/downloadSuppFile/47333/9523
10.17509/edulib.v12i2.47333.g22785
10.17509/edulib.v12i2.47333.s9523
 
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