UCL Covid-19 research passes milestone

UCL is seen as a European leader in Open Access, and more widely in Open Science and Scholarship, and makes important contributions to the development of policy and practice in this area, often in liaison with LERU (League of European Research Universities). 

At UCL we are applying the depth and breadth of our cross-disciplinary research and expertise to help humanity recover from Covid-19 and to make the world more resilient and equitable in the future. 

Our experts are urgently researching new ways of tackling the Covid-19 pandemic and are taking a prominent role in advancing public knowledge by advising world leaders, collaborating with key partners and providing expert commentary to inform the media.

To support UCL’s work, UCL Press established an aggregator which would collect together and link to all papers produced by UCL academics on their Covid-19 research. 

On 14 October, the UCL Covid-19 aggregator passed an important milestone, as it recorded that 5,000 papers were now being indexed. These have been viewed 124,266 times from the aggregating service.

Powered by ScienceOpen, the research collection indexes any relevant and individually published articles, book chapters, preprints, databases, as well as any other output type registered with a DOI (Digital Object Identifier) into one themed list. Each list is kept up-to-date, indexing the latest UCL output on that theme.

Each indexed item links out to the original source of the output (for example, the publisher’s website) as well as providing where possible open access versions available to any reader (for example, archived versions available in open access repositories).

This collection lists all UCL-contributed published content related to the Novel Coronavirus SARS-CoV-2 (Covid-19) pandemic.