Sharing knowledge to fight the virus: part 3

This is our third blog post highlighting freely accessible resources related to COVID-19.  If you’ve missed the first two, you can access the first one here and the second one here.  As before, the links will direct you to authoritative publications, written by experts and available for anyone with an internet connection to read or download.  Please share the resources as widely as possible.

This list includes some resources that were previously accessible only with a subscription or by paying a one-off fee; due to the current pandemic, these resources have been made freely available for the first time.

CORE
https://core.ac.uk/search?q=covid-19
https://core.ac.uk/search?q=coronavirus
Non-profitmaking UK website for Open Access research publications, maintained by the Open University and Jisc. Currently over 19,000 relevant articles on COVID-19 and over 55,000 on coronaviruses generally.

CORD-19: COVID-19 Open Research Dataset
https://www.semanticscholar.org/cord19
Free resource of more than 130,000 scholarly articles about COVID-19, updated daily.  Analytical tools have been developed and made available on the website to help researchers explore the content.  Created by the Semantic Scholar team at the Allen Institute for AI, Seattle, USA, in partnership with leading research groups. Semantic Scholar is a team of researchers and engineers working to reduce information overload in the scientific/technical community.

Academia.edu
https://www.academia.edu/coronavirus-covid-19/papers
Selection of key research papers on COVID-19. “In addition to curated content, it also lists the related reading that [Academia’s] algorithms have found for those papers.” Over 24,500 relevant full-text papers currently available to download.

ResearchGate COVID-19 Research Community
https://www.researchgate.net/community/COVID-19

Online academic research community that can be used “to stay up to date on the latest COVID-19 research as it happens, get help and support others, and contribute to the body of research the international community is using to combat the current crisis”.  Includes papers from more than 78,000 authors, and a useful page of resources and links to other sites.

Bielefeld Academic Search Engine (BASE)
https://tinyurl.com/yb4cys53

Search engine providing a broad overview of Open Access academic resources.  A BASE keyword search for COVID-19 will currently find nearly 101,000 sources; nearly 82,000 of these are Open Access.

Epistemonikos/L·OVE Working Group
https://www.epistemonikos.cl/all-about-covid-19/
Systematic reviews, preliminary reports and blog posts on COVID-19 from the Epistemonikos Foundation, a non-profitmaking organisation “working to bring scientific evidence closer to everyone making health decisions”. L·OVE (Living Overview of the Evidence) is Epistemonikos’ platform for maintaining up-to-date scientific evidence for specific health topics.

New England Journal of Medicine/NEJM Group
https://www.nejm.org/coronavirus
“A collection of articles and other resources on the Coronavirus (Covid-19) outbreak, including clinical reports, management guidelines, and commentary. All journal content related to the Covid-19 pandemic is freely available.” Other services and content available to subscribers only.

IEEE Xplore
https://tinyurl.com/sepbnyo
COVID-19 related research (articles and standards) “free to access for the duration of the global health crisis, with additional rights for all types of reuse, including full text and data mining, and analysis”.

Sharing knowledge to fight the virus

The Open Research Team at Cardiff University Library Service, which includes Cardiff University Press, is compiling a list of Open Access resources related to COVID-19. All the links in the list refer to authoritative publications written by experts, and are available for anyone with an internet connection to read or download.

We are doing this because information is power: it can save lives, if it gets to the right people who need it.  Please take a look at the resources and share them widely with whoever you think should read them.

We would like to thank our University colleagues at the Specialist Unit for Review Evidence (SURE) for their invaluable help in compiling the list.  This is the first instalment: we are still adding to the list, so look out for our next blog post. 

LitCovid
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/research/coronavirus/
American portal site from the National Center for Biotechnology Information, the US National Library of Medicine and the National Institutes of Health.  “…a curated literature hub for tracking up-to-date scientific information about the 2019 novel Coronavirus. The articles are updated daily and are further categorized by different research topics and geographic locations for improved access.” Currently over 3,000 relevant articles, all included in the PubMed database.  Data can be downloaded in  TSV or RIS format.

PubMed Central (PMC)
COVID-19 resources: https://tinyurl.com/wgbx3lb
General coronavirus resources: https://tinyurl.com/s7ymjvz
Online collections of resources on COVID-19 and other coronaviruses – co-ordinated by the US National Library of Medicine and representing 40 different academic publishers around the world.

World Health Organisation (WHO) – COVID-19 database
https://www.who.int/emergencies/diseases/novel-coronavirus-2019/global-research-on-novel-coronavirus-2019-ncov
This is updated daily (Monday to Friday) from searches of bibliographic databases, tables of contents of relevant journals, and other relevant scientific articles that come to WHO’s attention.  Articles are searchable by author, keyword (title, author, journal), journal, or general topic, and can be downloaded free of charge. To see the most recently added citations, select “Newest updates”.

Digital Science: Dimensions COVID-19 resources
https://covid-19.dimensions.ai/
Database of relevant resources which can be exported as a spreadsheet and accessed via Google or on Figshare.  Contains research publications, datasets and (via the spreadsheet) clinical trial information.  Updated daily – currently more than 6,600 resources included.  Over two-thirds of resources are Open Access.

Centre for Evidence-Based Medicine (CEBM): Evidence Service
https://www.cebm.net/covid-19/
Freely accessible summaries of medical evidence to answer specific questions about COVID-19 – updated regularly.

Cochrane Collaboration
Special Collections: https://www.cochranelibrary.com/special-collections
COVID-19 – Fertility and Pregnancy: https://cgf.cochrane.org/news/covid-19-coronavirus-disease-fertility-and-pregnancy
Rapid Reviews: https://www.cochrane.org/cochranes-work-rapid-reviews-response-covid-19
The Cochrane Library medical database is creating Special Collections of systematic reviews on aspects of COVID-19, including Infection control and prevention measures and Evidence relevant to critical care.  The Cochrane Gynaecology and Fertility Group is also collecting important resources, guidance and advice statements on COVID-19, fertility and pregnancy into a spreadsheet which can be downloaded from the website.  Cochrane is currently working on a number of fast-tracked systematic reviews on COVID-19 related topics for its Rapid Reviews series.

F1000Research: Disease Outbreaks gateway site
https://f1000research.com/gateways/disease_outbreaks/coronavirus
Free access to COVID-19 research papers (before, during and after peer review).
“We welcome all types of publications and documents related to coronavirus, including but not limited to: clinical trials, clinical case reports, epidemiological modelling, transmission dynamics, collaboratively written policies, protocols, and any other information that needs to be shared in a timely manner.”

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