An interesting platform with research data being open to both health researchers and patients. According to this non profit initiative Cureous encourages collaboration and open investigations. And they encourage patient collaborators! This sounds very interesting. The page - Why this initiative explains their intentions and encourages public and private organizations to become partners and thus build a consortium The "Platform" page explains newer initiatives in the way research will be done, and more. Launched in 2020, this sounds like a very interesting initiative. Do check it out at https://www.cureous.life/

The project is almost one year old and the team at EVIDENCE AID has prepared nearly 500 short, plain language summaries covering more than 750 systematic reviews relevant to the COVID-19 pandemic and its impact. The summaries are available in English, with translations into several other languages including Arabic, Chinese, French, German, Italian, Portuguese and Spanish; with links to all the full reviews. If anyone would like to receive update about these directly, please write to callen [at] evidenceaid [dot] org https://evidenceaid.org/evidence/coronavirus-covid-19/

LitCovid is a curated literature hub for tracking up-to-date scientific information about the 2019 novel Coronavirus. It is the most comprehensive resource on the subject, providing a central access to a huge and every growing list of  relevant articles in PubMed. The articles are updated daily and are further categorized by different research topics and geographic locations for improved access. The categorization ranges from transmission and diagnosis to forecasting. The data can be downloaded too - as bibliographic records of articles and even the text and data. A treasure for anyone doing research on Covid Thanks to Pamela Sieving for sharing…

How would you feel if you knew that there is a complete library of valuable text just waiting for your attention, a few clicks away from you? Open Texts is a web platform that enables you to discover free digitised text resources from around the world. It has over eight million items on its shelves, ranging from items on the History of Medicine right down to conference literature on topics such as Osteoporosis. There is an advanced search option that will allow you to narrow down your area of interest to a specific time period, or to filter your search…