Free access to all Covid-19 related research results


Free access to all Covid-19 related research results

On March 13, the United States Office for Science and Technology Policy (OSTP) initiated a campaign which is supported by the National Science Advisors of 12 other countries. The request is to deposit all published articles (Version of Record) reporting on research results related to Covid-19 in the repositories of PubMed Central (PMC) and the World Health Organization (WHO). The campaign is asking to let researchers have free access, full reuse rights, and text and data mining (TDM) rights.
 
At Springer Nature, we have already been supporting earlier initiatives to give readers early access to all Covid-19 related research results. The recent campaign expands the sharing of research results which started in January. In the framework of this recent campaign we have deposited close to 9000 journal articles and book chapters on Corona viruses published over the past few years. Going forward, we will apply keyword searches to recognize newly published relevant content for further ongoing depositing.
 
The rights that Springer Nature and other publishers are granting to PMC and WHO will be in effect for the duration of the Covid-19 crisis, i.e. until the WHO declares the end of this Public Health Emergency of International Concern (PHEIC). We acknowledge that you may be the rights owner of some of the content we plan to deposit with PMC and the WHO. We are hoping you will support us and many other organizations in this campaign by allowing the temporary free access, full reuse rights, and TDM rights​ to your content, and by allowing us to deposit your Covid-19 related content in the PMC and WHO databases on your behalf. Please do let us know as soon as possible in case you do not agree with this or if you have any other concerns or questions.
 
More info:

https://www.springernature.com/gp/researchers/campaigns/coronavirus