Coronavirus crisis inspiring ‘unprecedented’ global research effort

Early publication is fine provided it is peer reviewed. Yellow-page journalism is not going to help

Many thanks, Ms. Lau, and to your team at THE for all of your efforts toward raising the profile and awareness of all of the contributions, collaboration and progress being achieved across the global scientific research community – particularly during these challenging times and always. Pursuant to the commentary surrounding journal publishers, and for the benefit of all stakeholders, I'll respectfully share a link to the announcement that was published today by the National Institute of Health announcing the NLM's efforts to expand access to scientific papers on coronavirus for researchers, care providers, and the public, and for text-mining research. https://www.nih.gov/news-events/news-releases/national-library-medicine-expands-access-coronavirus-literature-through-pubmed-central. All publishers supporting this initiative, and particularly those cited in this article, should be commended for these important contributions.

With comments like this from publishers why are they not surprised by our low view of their efforts? Tandf have had their coronavirus research for free for weeks but now seem to have thrown together a COVID19 page on their website with loads of links to their ‘resources’. Such crass, simplistic marketing needs to be seen for what it is. Surely if this was purely altruistic you would have just carried on with what you were already doing, making it easy to get to with no paywall direct from a search engine. That's want we need not your requests to be 'commended for your contributions'.