دور الوصول الحر لنشر بحوث كوفيد 19: صعود خوادم البحوث قبل النشر Preprint في مجال الصحة في ظل الجائحة

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This article deals with scientific publishing and its development under the pan- demic, in addition to the impact of open access on accelerating dissemination of covid-19 research.

The study was conducted on research drafts servers or preprint research, most notably : bioRxiv and medRxiv along with other servers in the fiels of health sicences, and the study was conducted through the Pubmed database for publishing journal articles.

The purpose is to identify the dissemination development through preprint servers beside the Impact of open access on facilitating and accelerating the dis- semination of Covid-19 research.

The study found that open science offers gadgets such as open data to enhance scientific cooperation and communication during the pandemic.

In addition to that, commercial periodicals publishers head toward open publishing under the pandemic via a set of initiatives and policies.

Open access plays an important role in order to accelerate and facilitate the sharing of data and resources about the epidemic.

It is also witnessing the growth of preprint servers as a main gadget for quick and easy dissemination of infor- mation about the epidemic whereby these servers host research in large num- bers.

Through them publication is witnessing a high annual growth in the field of health sciences Especially during 2019 and 2021.

BioRxiv is the most known among preprint servers and forefront in terms of annual increase in publishing and downloading compared to other servers.

Literature about Covid-19 through preprint also knowns sustained growth since the outbreak of the pandemic besides the publication of journal articles; in the last two years, publication on bioRxiv and medRxiv servers has shown higher growth in research, along with a growth in publication on Pubmed throughout the epidemic.

This study recommends the necessity of inviting researchers to adopt a cul- ture of sharing preprint as a complement to journal articles about the epidemic especially in Arab countries, in this contries at a broader level to achieve equal opportunities to access knowledge between the global south and the global north in an open environment.

Furthermore the need for recognition by the scientif- ic community of publishing through servers and platforms for open publishing.

motivating and encouraging publication on open access and servers, as well as creating platforms similar to bioRxiv to publish Arabic preprint in seek of sharing knowledge on the pandemic and reviewing state regulations and local laws about preprint publishing in servers and open access.