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In a combined effort to help COVID-19 researchers the University of Oxford and Cardiff University have launched a series of “living reviews” in Oxford University Press’s new open access journal “Oxford Open Immunology”.

Pile of research papers

The living reviews will summarise literature around one topic and are a response to the speed and volume of COVID-19 immunology research published during the pandemic.

On behalf of the Oxford-Cardiff COVID-19 Literature Consortium, Dr Ewoud Compeer, University of Oxford points out the idea behind this new publishing format: "The field of COVID-19 immunology was seeing new developments and new hypotheses appearing at an extreme pace online in the form of pre-prints. This speed of publishing made literature reviews outdated even before a journal published them. Our 'living reviews' will stay "live" for a designated period, being updated as change happens."

The journal publishes peer reviewed scientific articles, and the annotation enables rapid communication of updated information, but the version of record does not change so provides a history of the scientific developments.

The full story is available on the Nuffield Department of Orthopaedics, Rheumatology & Musculoskeletal Sciences website.