Abstract: [Purpose/Significance] The Research on Research Institute（RoRI） published a scientific report titled "Scholarly communication in times of crisis" （"RoRI Report"）. The scientific report reviewed the changes and innovations in the global scholarly communication system in response to COVID-19 pandemic, providing a rich source of evidence for a deeper understanding of the public health crisis response of the scholarly communication system and its effect. [Design/Methodology] By summarizing the results of the quantitative （bibliometric analysis） and qualitative （questionnaire analysis and case studies） analyses of the "RoRI Report", this paper reviews whether the main commitments formulated by the scientific community during the outbreak of the pandemic have been achieved to improve the scholarly communication system. [Findings/Conclusion] The findings of "RoRI Report" show that commitments to advance open access to COVID-19 papers and accelerate peer review of COVID-19 manuscripts have largely been fulfilled, while commitments to enhance the availability of preprints of COVID-19 papers and facilitate the sharing of COVID-19 research data have not been fulfilled at a large scale. [Originality/Value] Based on the findings of the "RoRI Report", this paper discusses the attempts of the scientific community to improve the scholarly communication system during the pandemic, and the implications for further improving the scholarly communication system in the post-epidemic era.

Key words: Scholarly communication, Preprints, Open access, Open science;Data sharing, COVID-19 pandemic