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Tear down academic paywall during pandemic

Costa-Pereira, R

Brazilian journal of biology, 2020-07, Vol.80 (3), p.697-697 [Periódico revisado por pares]

São Carlos: Association of the Brazilian Journal of Biology

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  • Título:
    Tear down academic paywall during pandemic
  • Autor: Costa-Pereira, R
  • Assuntos: Colleges & universities ; Coronaviruses ; COVID-19 ; Developing countries ; Documents ; LDCs ; Pandemics ; Scientific papers ; Students ; Telecommuting ; Working conditions
  • É parte de: Brazilian journal of biology, 2020-07, Vol.80 (3), p.697-697
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  • Descrição: COVID-19 has transformed how academics work. Universities are shut, classes canceled or moved online, travel banned, and meetings postponed. Abandoning offices to work from home while caring for our loved ones requires a complete and difficult change in our daily lives. Many of us are struggling to learn how to teach students remotely while continuing to write and review manuscripts and grants outside of the usual working environment. A major barrier to effectively working from home is paywall-restricted access to scientific papers, which represents 75% of all publications. A considerable portion of academics, particularly those from developing nations, do not have access to paywalled papers from their homes. Excluding part of the academic community, which includes students working on their dissertations and thesis, from reading research publications during these unprecedented times is unacceptable. Sci-hub certainly helps to alleviate this problem, but one should not have to rely solely on this alternative in the midst of a pandemic. As a practical action to facilitate working from home, academic publishers should stop charging for access to papers during the pandemic. A simple and straightforward alternative would be allowing temporary view-only free access.
  • Editor: São Carlos: Association of the Brazilian Journal of Biology
  • Idioma: Inglês

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