Over the coming months, CCC will publish a series of occasional posts on the topic of Peer Review in a COVID World, exploring various facets of the impact of data and peer review in scholarly publishing. 

In the COVID19 era, data scientists have the expertise and a professional obligation to play vital roles, says Harvard statistics Professor Xiao-Li Meng. The coronavirus pandemic, he says, presents them with opportunities to explore important social and scientific questions.

CCC hosted its first virtual Town Hall on May 5. Global leaders from across the publishing industry shared insights on how COVID-19 is rewriting the rules for business, publishing, academia, media and technology and what these transformations mean to the world of publishing.

Part two of a three-piece blog series CCC is producing with a primary focus around metadata strategy, management and implementation.