Velocity of Content
Where Publishing Meets the Pandemic
While market disruptions, expected and unexpected, are always a factor, the COVID-19 pandemic quickly became a once-in-a-century catalyst to advance the speed of science and accelerate the digital transformation of scientific publishing. In this last quarter of 2020, the scientific publishing ecosystem is markedly more open, more immediate, and more accessible than only a few months ago.
In October 2019, CCC invited senior policymakers, scholarly and society publishers, private and government funders, institutions, and researchers to meet in London. Those experts explored how best to advance scholarly research and to improve the scientific publishing ecosystem. To promote transparency and collaboration, CCC and Outsell, Inc., subsequently created a map of the scientific publishing ecosystem reflecting the perspectives of key stakeholders.
In a program developed for the 2020 Frankfurt Book Fair, panelists shared with CCC’s Chris Kenneally real-time data about the coronavirus correlation on disruption in scientific publishing, how it drives their investments, and shapes the innovations they hope to bring to market.