**Preliminary analysis of COVID-19 academic information patterns: a call for open science in the times of closed borders** "The Pandemic of COVID-19, an infectious disease caused by SARS-CoV-2 motivated the scientific community to work together in order to gather, organize, process and distribute data on the novel biomedical hazard. Here, we analyzed how the scientific community responded to this challenge by quantifying distribution and availability patterns of the academic information related to COVID-19." https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s11192-020-03587-2
**Open Science Saves Lives: Lessons from the COVID-19 Pandemic**
"In response to the COVID-19 pandemic many publishers and researchers have sped up their adoption of Open Science practices, sometimes embracing them fully and sometimes partially or in a sub-optimal manner." https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2020.08.13.249847v2
**Making science public: a review of journalists’ use of Open Science research** "..it is unclear to what degree journalists use open research outputs, such as open access publications or preprints, in their reporting; what factors motivate or constrain this use; and how the recent surge in openly available research seen during the COVID-19 pandemic has affected this." https://f1000research.com/articles/12-512/v2
