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COVID-19 related research articles and datasets

Public Health Emergency COVID-19 Initiative via PubMed Central

What’s included: Free access to coronavirus-related publications and associated data from publishers and societies around the world. This is a collaboration between publishers and NLM to expand access and enable reuse and machine learning through the deposit of COVID-19 and coronavirus-related articles to PubMed Central.

How to access it: Users are encouraged to use the search query links provided in the Discovery box on the COVID-19 Initiative page. Access is free to all.


COVID-19 Open Research Dataset (CORD-19)

What’s included: More than 47,000 scholarly articles, including over 36,000 with full text, about COVID-19 and the coronavirus family of viruses. This dataset leverages the efforts of the COVID-19 Initiative and is intended to mobilize researchers to apply recent advances in natural language processing to generate new insights in support of the fight against this infectious disease.

How to access it: Access to CORD-19 downloads and additional resources is free to all.


LitCovid

What’s included: Citations and full text of COVID-19 specific literature published since the outbreak . This is a resource developed by intramural researchers at the National Library of Medicine that utilizes a text classification algorithm for screening and ranking relevant documents, topic modeling for suggesting relevant research categories, and information extraction for obtaining geographic location(s) found in the abstract.

How to access it: Access to LitCovid is free to all.


iSearch COVID 19 Portfolio

What's included:  curated publications related to COVID-19 and a powerful search functionality.  Included articles are from PubMed and several pre-prints sources. 

How to access it: Access to iSearch COVID-10 Portfolio is free to all. 


University of Michigan's Covid Best Evidence

What's included: University of Michigan's Taubman Health Sciences Library and the Department of Learning Health Sciences at the University of Michigan have created a single searchable resource for evidence based Covid-19 information. covidbestevidence.org provides direct access to high quality meta-analyses, literature syntheses, and clinical guidelines from multiple sources. 

How to access it: Access to covidbestevidence.org is free to all. 


Protocols.io Coronavirus Method Development Community

What's included: Free access to community posted COVID-19 and SARS-CoV-2 relevant methods and protocols. 

How to access. Access Coronavirus Method Development Community through your (free) account to Protocols.io. 


Covid related Technical standards 

What’s included: Selected standards related to medical equipment and PPE from ISO, IEC, EU and ASTM.

How to access it: Access is free to all. For access as well as resources related to manufacturing PPE and equipment, visit Standards relating to COVID-19.