1) The openVirus project aims to provide citizens with knowledge about COVID-19 by scraping and indexing openly accessible scientific literature related to viruses and epidemics.
2) ContentMine and collaborators are building tools to scrape sources like theses, journals, and preprint servers, clean and annotate the data, and make the information searchable.
3) The goal is to index over 2,000 articles by scraping sources containing over 5 million open access articles and 50,000 preprints.