While I’ve previously shared the excellent work that Ithaka S+R published in late October 2020 on the impacts of COVID-19 on the research enterprise (see https://sr.ithaka.org/publications/the-impacts-of-covid-19-on-the-research-enterprise/ ), sponsored by SpringerNature, I somehow completely missed several other reports that SpringerNature supported which were released in the last month or so. See
https://www.springernature.com/gp/researchers/campaigns/coronavirus/impact-of-covid19
The report “Emerging from Uncertainty” (at https://resource-cms.springernature.com/springer-cms/rest/v1/content/18537754/data/v6 ) is particularly interesting in that it considers how research work adapted to the constraints of the pandemic and speculates on how some of these adaptations may persist in the post-COVID environment, in much the same way we are seeing discussion about how and to what extent new adoption of online instruction may persist after the pandemic.
Clifford Lynch
Director, CNI
