id author title date pages extension mime words sentence flesch summary cache txt crln-24414 Tavernier, Willa COVID-19 demonstrates the value of open access: What happens next? 2020-05-01 5 .pdf application/pdf 2899 112 26 Some are facilitating rapid and open peer review and fast-tracking the publishing of related research.1 Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist Michael Hiltzig refers to this convincing demonstration of the value of open access to scientific research as one of the most important positive disruptions caused by COVID-19.2 The World Health Organization (WHO) maintains a global research hub with links to several publisher sites for access to coro- navirus research, and the U.S. Centers for Disease Control has compiled a similar list.3 Elsevier (and its high-profile journals like Cell and The Lancet), Wiley, SpringerNature, The New England Journal of Medicine, and scores of other publishers and publications have provided open access to COVID-19 research.4 Much of those costs shift to technology for managing access (restricted to subscriber-only), which can be eliminated if open access was the governing paradigm. cache/crln-24414.pdf txt/crln-24414.txt