How COVID-19 has transformed the way we publish and report on scientific research.
Peer review, despite its flaws, is one of the most important pillars of the scientific process. So preprint servers, which make scientific papers that have yet to be reviewed or published available online, have been slow to catch on in many fields.
But then came the pandemic.
“COVID changed everything,” says Jim Handman, executive director of the Science Media Centre of Canada. Read more in University Affairs.