[Emma Lazzeri]

Dear All,
Given the urgent demand of facilitating sharing and discovery of COVID-19 research products via dedicated repositories and catalogues, I am happy to share this news with the group.
OpenAIRE (the infrastructure of the European Commission for Open Access) is creating a “Scientific Gateway” where all metadata about the research products related to COVID19 and SARS-CoV-2 (clinical data, epidemiological, scientific articles, software, methodologies, processes, etc.) will be automatically aggregated from relevant sources world-wide. The Gateway will offer a single-point of discovery and access for COVID-19 research results not only for publications but also for data, software, and other reserach products.
The project was strongly encouraged by the European Commission and developed in synergy and complementarity with other European initiatives “called up to the army”, such as ELIXIR and this very WG in RDA.
OpenAIRE has also set up a dedicated space to deposit immediately and free of charge the research results relating to COVID19 (articles, datasets, software, etc.) in the Zenodo.org . This space (the COVID-19 Zenodo community ) has collected in a few days more than 100 scientific contributions produced by researchers from all over the world.
Furthermore, OpenAIRE has released a call for experts in the medical / biomedical / SSH sectors and beyond, who can contribute to:
Curate the community in Zenodo.org to make sure all submitted contributions are of scientific relatedness with COVID-19;
Support the OpenAIRE technical team to set up Text and Data Mining algorithms for the automatic discoring of research results and projects related to the COVID-19 and SARS-CoV-2
Help us in updating the list of selected COVID-19 related resources for the Scientific Gateway.
You can find more information at the links below
Best Regards
Emma Lazzeri
OpenAIRE for COVID19:
https://www.openaire.eu/openaire-activities-for-covid-19
Zenodo COVID-19 Community
https://zenodo.org/communities/covid-19/?page=1&size=20
OpenAIRE COVID-19 Scientific Gateway
https://www.openaire.eu/openaire-covid-19-gateway
Blogpost on Zenodo.org:
https://blog.zenodo.org/2020/04/02/fighting-the-coronavirus-disease-covi…
Call for Experts OpenAIRE
https://www.openaire.eu/covid-19-call-for-experts
List of currently considered resources for the Gateway
https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/11npxOemaFCaUq-6uCweNLx0enz29rcJs…
Press Release
https://www.openaire.eu/collaboration-for-covid-19
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Dr. Emma Lazzeri, PhD
Istituto di Scienza e Tecnologie dell’Informazione “A. Faedo” – CNR
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56124 Pisa, Italy
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