Opinion: Covid-19 is reshaping the world of bioscience publishing
The Covid-19 pandemic is rapidly changing our lives in previously unimaginable ways and forcing us to view many behaviors in a new light. That is certainly the case for bioscience publishing, which has already undergone significant change in the digital era.
These changes are accelerating in real time in response to the epidemic and the need it created to rapidly disseminate information about the biology of the virus, the clinical features of the infection it causes, and possibilities for prevention and therapy. As is so often the case, necessity accelerates transformative change.
Scientific progress depends on effective transmission of research results to the scientific community, enabling discoveries to be assessed and extended. Once the domain of physical journals collected and
