Providing the Ichushi-Web Bibliographies to the WHO COVID-19 Research Database: Corona-Related Information Service During Pandemic Disasters.

Three years after we began living through an unprecedented infectious disease epidemic at the end of 2019, our world is still heavily affected by COVID-19. Therefore, new tools such as LitCovid, iSearch COVID-19 portfolio, and the WHO COVID-19 Research Database (WHO COVID-19 RDB), which collects and provides information specific to COVID-19 infections, have been launched. Herein, I describe our activities directed towards providing the bibliographic details of Ichushi-Web to the WHO COVID-19 RDB, what we haveachieved from such activities, and an overview of this database. I have continued this activity in the hope that inclusion of as much bibliographic information as possible to the tool provided by WHO, a global organization, will help to improve the world’s access to research published in Japanese.