More of Kareem Carrs Scientist communication thread 2

University of Michigan - Ann Arbor

COVID-19 researchers need to be able to access COVID articles and their cited articles in order to conduct a more comprehensive review of the literature.

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but are you helping as much as you can? Enough?

why not make all #COVID19 papers CC-BY? what about the articles cited by this collection? Why are those not open too? Should we not expect readers to be able to read the cited articles too?
https://twitter.com/egonwillighagen/status/1253220872518852609

- @ egonwillighagen


Egon Willighagen tweets that Springer Nature claims to allow researchers have free access to all of its COVID papers but does not allow researchers to read the cited papers of these articles 

"If you’re working on a paper on COVID-19 (or any other topic), it might be useful to know that there are relevant papers outside of the NBER working paper series."

- @austinlwright

Austin Wright expresses that researchers should expand their sources from where they are getting information

Recent papers have shown the validity of using Vitamin C and D in the treatment of COVID-19 patients. It was requested that this should be mentioned in the page, but it was quickly shut down due to the restrictions against preprints. Some people think this should still be worth mentioning since there’s extensive research on it and the fact that it it is done by notable and achieved scientists should be enough to be at least addressed. 
"Many reputable doctors and medical facilities, such as the Eastern Virginia Medical School are treating COVID-19 patients with Vitamin D, Vitamin C, Zinc, Thiamin and Melatonin. That is worth mentioning somewhere in the article. There is no need to reach a conclusion on the efficacy of these treatments.Tvaughan1 (talk) 01:36, 20 July 2020 (UTC)"

Wikipedia: Restrictions against preprints and what adds credibility to a source

"I'm not going to go back and forth with this editor, but I'm curious what other editors think about Wikipedia's coverage of trending hashtags related to the pandemic on social media. I'd like to see more content added, not removed." ---Another Believer (Talk) 16:54, 25 March 2020 (UTC)

Wikipedia: Are hashtags a valid way for pinpointing important information?

Bianca Kramer reported that Elsevier planned to end free access to COVID-19-related content on October 29. The post warned that affected papers might subsequently be removed from PubMed Central and emphasized that temporary access granted by Elsevier and other publishers did not constitute open access. Sources included in the post: https://github.com/bmkramer/COVID19-PMC-collections and https://twitter.com/MsPhelps/status/1269722101067497474/photo/1

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