01271nam a22002417a 4500 9389 OCLRC 20260730103742.0 210325t xxu||||| |||| 00| 0 eng d OCLRC Shopovski, Jovan COVID-19 pandemic, the value of open access to research, and role of agile peer review/ Jovan Shopovski, Brian Sloboda. 2020. DOI: https://doi.org/10.19044/esj.2020.v16n10p1 The emergence of the Internet has changed the landscape of academic publishing. Digitalization facilitated peer review, publishing procedures, and content retrieval (Suber 2012). However, the majority of academic articles were brought behind pay walls, thus remaining inaccessible to a wider audience. This initiated another approach towards academic publishing in the early 1990s when the open access movement was conceived. Its protagonists, underlining the openness as a fundamental scientific ethos, launched open access publishing venues to provide free usage of scholarly content (Bjork, 2018). Academic publishing, Open access, peer review, open science, COVID-19 Sloboda, Brian ELEC 9389 9389 0 0 0 0 LRC LRC 2026-07-30 0 2026-07-30 10:37:42 2026-07-30 ELEC