Cochrane receives an Innovate UK grant to fund further development of the COVID-19 Study Register

Cochrane is delighted to announce the awarding of a grant fromInnovate UK, the UK ’s innovation agency, to fund the continued development and enhancement of theCochrane COVID-19 Study Register throughout 2021.Cochrane ’s COVID-19 Study Register, launched in April 2020, isa curated collection for researchers to access all relevant primary studies being published related to COVID-19. The Register helps systematic reviewers prioritise topics, identify available evidence and produce urgently needed reviews for front-line health professionals, public health policymakers and research teams developing new therapeutic, diagnostic, and preventive interventions for COVID-19.  The grant was awarded to Cochrane in partnership with Metaxis, which has been involved in the development of the Study Register since its launch.Funding from this Innovate UK grant will be dedicated to making enhancements to the data curation processes that assist in populating the Register, which currently includes nearly 42,000 studies. The Register team plans to develop its crowdsourcing and machine learning (AI) capabilities that will help to identify, link, describe, and appraise studies in near real-time to significantly aid discoverability, as well increasing accessibility via an Open API. This new crowdsourcing and machine learning development is divided into six work packages as follows.  Crowdsourcing study linking:  We will deliver a semi-automated approach to linking related reports through the ...
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