The CEO of the Association of American Publishers (AAP), Maria Pallante, declared the continuous effort of publishers “To communicate valuable discoveries, analyses, and data as quickly as possible including by making their copyrighted articles pertaining to the virus freely available for public use during this crisis, in both text and machine-readable formats. Many publishers – both commercial companies and nonprofit societies – have been doing so for weeks.”
The statement was issued to reinforce the association’s alignment and effort to what declared in the Letter from National Science and Technology Advisors from a dozens countries (including Italy), to make publicly accessible all publications and data on COVID-19.