India, US and others ask publishers to make all coronavirus-related data available to public

A dozen countries, including India and US, on Friday asked publishers to make all coronavirus-related research and data immediately available to public to contain and mitigate rapidly evolving pandemic.

virus, which first surfaced in China in December, has now killed more than 5,000 people globally.

"To assist efforts to contain and mitigate rapidly evolving COVID-19 pandemic, basic science research and innovation will be vital to dressing this global crisis. Given urgency of situation, it is particularly important that scientists and public can access research outcomes as soon as possible,” science officials from se countries said in an open letter to Members of Scholarly Publishing Community.

A copy of joint open letter was issued by Director of White House Office of Science and Technology Policy (OSTP) and Member of President Donald Trump’s Coronavirus Task Force, Dr Kelvin Droegemeier on behalf of government science leers including science ministers and chief science visors from Australia, Brazil, Cana, Germany, India, Italy, Japan, South Korea, New Zealand, Singapore, and United Kingdom.

"We, as national leers on science policy, applaud efforts of researchers to understand and prevent infection and spre of COVID-19. We also greatly appreciate funders and publishers who play important role of supporting, reviewing, and communicating research outcomes and making publications and data available to global community for scientific research and public awareness,” y wrote in call-to-action.

se leers requested that existing and new articles be me available in machine-reable format to allow full text and data mining with rights accorded for research re-use and secondary analysis. This will allow researchers to apply artificial intelligence to answer critical questions and identify trends and relevant information in ir efforts to characterize this novel virus and dress global health crisis, y said.

y said that this information should be in both human and machine-reable format to allow for full text and data mining using artificial intelligence with rights accorded for research re-use and secondary analysis. “We furr respectfully request this arrangement apply to articles published to date as well as future articles for duration of this crisis,” y said. PTI LKJ NSA