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Public Health Emergency COVID-19 Initiative in PubMedCentral

Following the call from the White House Office of Science and Technology Policy and science policy leaders of other nations, the National Library of Medicine (NLM) is collaborating with publishers and scholarly societies to expand access via PubMed Central (PMC) to coronavirus-related publications and associated data. Under this initiative, publishers voluntarily deposited articles identified as relevant to the COVID-19 pandemic or prior coronavirus research. Submitted publications are made available as quickly as possible after publication for discovery in PMC and through the PMC Open Access Subset for text mining, secondary analysis, and other types of reuse.

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at https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/about/covid-19/

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According to World Health Organisation "The 2019-nCoV outbreak and response has been accompanied by a massive ‘infodemic’ - an over-abundance of information – some accurate and some not – that makes it hard for people to find trustworthy sources and reliable guidance when they need it."

Across the social media platform, it is being noticed that there is a chaos of information and misinformation like fake news, rumors, lies, self-invented medication, hitherto unknown medical advice and many more innovative, real-like lies.

As a Librarian and being a responsible citizen of India, I appeal to all the information professionals should come forward collectively to fight this corona infodemic by sharing evaluative and authentic information to all the stakeholders. This is a Infographic designed by me.