AnswerThis.org — A Smart Add-On to Systematic Searching!

Finding and organizing the right research papers can often take hours — sometimes days. What if you had an assistant that could do part of this for you: finding relevant studies, summarizing them, and even giving you proper citations? That’s what AnswerThis.org (also accessible via answerthis.io) does. It’s an AI-powered research assistant that helps you ask a question or describe a topic — and then gives you a detailed, referenced summary built from scholarly papers. Using AnswerThis, you can: Get literature summaries with citations Identify research gaps — areas that need more study Save or upload papers in your own…
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Cureous Commons

Cureous Commons

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/
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Evidence Aid’s COVID-19 project:

Evidence Aid’s COVID-19 project:

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/
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