31 March 2020
In light of the COVID-19 pandemic, EDP Sciences has decided to open its journals content from 2018-2020 so it is freely available for all to read*.
The reasons for this are two-fold:
- medical research – ensuring there is nothing within EDP Sciences’ pay-walled content that could be useful for current research related to the crisis
- to support the many thousands of academics and researchers who are now confined to working from home and may not have easy access to key research articles from their institutions
Content will initially be made available from 30 March until the end of June 2020. The situation will be continually monitored and any activity which may indicate abuse of the initiative will be questioned. Copyright on individual articles will remain unchanged.
*There are a few exceptions:
- journals published on behalf of partners from whom permission has not yet been obtained; these will be added as and when authorisation is received
- journals not owned for which EDP Sciences simply hosts content