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+[covid19.fatcat.wiki](https://covid19.fatcat.wiki)
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+**Work in Progress!**
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+**Not Medical Advice for Clinical or General Public!**
+
+This repository contains scripts and a web search front-end for a corpus of
+research publications and datasets relating to the COVID-19 pandemic.
+
+The main dataset is the
+["CORD-19"](https://pages.semanticscholar.org/coronavirus-research) (sic) paper
+set from Semantic Scholar, enriched with additional metadata and web archive
+fulltext from [fatcat.wiki](https://fatcat.wiki).
+
+Major acknowledgements (not complete):
+
+- PubMed catalog and PMC repository
+- Wanfang Data
+- CNKI
+- biorxiv and medrxiv pre-print repositories
+- publishers large and small, from around the world, making additional content available
+- research authors
+- hospital workers and other emergency responders around the world