Lindsay Borthwick

The pandemic pushed open science forward in Canada, but the gains have been modest

Lindsay Borthwick
September 8, 2021

The COVID-19 pandemic has been called a “stress test” for open science — one that, by most accounts, it passed. The sharing of new scientific knowledge and data about the SARS-CoV-2 virus and its impacts has been fast and furious. But not all experts are convinced that open will become the new norm for science in Canada. At least, not yet. 

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Organizations: Canadian COVID Genomics Network (CanCoGEN), Canadian Institutes of Health Research (CIHR), Genome Canada, Structural Genomics Consortium (SGC), and Université de Montréal
People: Dr Aled Edwards, Dr Catalina Lopez-Correa, Dr Mona Nemer, Dr Sarah Viehbeck, and Dr Vincent Larivière
Topics: COVID-19 research, Open Data, and open science

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