COVID-19: IMPACTS ON INFORMATION ORGANIZATION, TRANSMISSION AND USE [ARTICLE]
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Date
2021-06
Authors
Abruzzi, Raymond
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Nazarbayev University Library
Abstract
The ways in which scholarly research outputs have been organized and disseminated
have undergone some complete changes in the last decade, notably through the expansion of
open access and the increased availability of such information outside of existing publishing
channels. The crises related to COVID-19 and the demand for critical data and research
findings needed to inform medical responses and public health and public policy decisions
have increased the speed with which information has traveled along more traditional
paths. However, they also resulted in a substantial shift to new paradigms of information
organization and sharing, as well as some improvement in international collaborations. This
shift is not entirely new. Researchers tackling the challenges of earlier health crises (e.g.,
those engaged with mitigating the health impacts of the 1918 Influenza) have called for
changes in the way information is organized and shared, as well as for greater collaboration
among nations and institutions...
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Type of access: Open Access, EALC, library, COVID-19
Citation
Abruzzi, R. (2021, June 29). COVID-19: IMPACTS ON INFORMATION ORGANIZATION, TRANSMISSION AND USE [Article]. Nazarbayev University Repository. https://nur.nu.edu.kz/handle/123456789/5851