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Facilitating quick access to trusted research on the monkeypox virus
A high impact portal for clinicians, researchers, policymakers and public health officials
| Last updated: 10 November, 2022 |
Understanding the global threat posed by Monkeypox, publishers have been working to identify the best way to support the global response, just as we did with respect to COVID, the Ukraine crisis, and other global information needs in recent years.
Not only have STM members collectively made volumes of research available, they are also working to organize it into collections to help ensure researchers, public health officials, clinicians, as well as others working actively to help stop the spread of monkeypox can rapidly gather relevant, reliable research.
STM has established this resource center to serve as a gateway to various research collections and resources, the most trusted research on monkeypox, being being made available and curated by our members.
Note that this page, this resource, will be frequently updated in the coming days with additional research and resources from publishers.
Not only are STM member publishers key sources for high quality, validated information and reporting on the latest medical discoveries, and scholarly breakthroughs that drive human understanding and public health — they are also curators. In times of crisis, when quick yet thorough understanding of an issue — whether it’s efficacy of a vaccine or clinical advice for a practicing, front-line physician — access to trusted, organized information is essential.
Our members are proud to contribute to public understanding of this health emergency, as they do for all areas of research and practice.
— Caroline Sutton, CEO, STM Association
- Clinical features and management of human monkeypox: a retrospective observational study in the UK, The Lancet Infectious Diseases (2022)
- Global human monkeypox outbreak: atypical presentation demanding urgent public health action, The Lancet Microbe (2022)
- Monkeypox in 2022: A new threat in developing, Annals of Medicine and Surgery (2022)
- Monkeypox claims new victims: the outbreak in men who have sex with men, Infectious Diseases of Poverty (2022)
- Combating the global spread of poverty-related Monkeypox outbreaks and beyond, Infectious Diseases of Poverty (2022)
- An overview of tecovirimat for smallpox treatment and expanded anti-orthopoxvirus applications, Expert Review of Anti-infective Therapy (2020)
- Modelling of optimal vaccination strategies in response to a bioterrorism associated smallpox outbreak, Human Vaccines & Immunotherapeutics (2020)
- The new ACAM2000™ vaccine and other therapies to control orthopoxvirus outbreaks and bioterror attacks, Expert Review of Vaccines (2014)
- A Primer on Monkeypox Virus for Obstetrician–Gynecologists Diagnosis, Prevention, and Treatment, Obstetrics & Gynecology (2022)
- Neurologic Effects of Monkeypox Virus Remain Mild What to Look for and How to Treat, Neurology Today (2022)
- Human Monkeypox, Monographs in Virology (1988)
- Comparative Effects of Cidofovir and Cyclic HPMPC on Lethal Cowpox and Vaccinia Virus Respiratory Infections in Mice, Chemotherapy (2003)
- Mpox knowledge, vaccination and intention to reduce sexual risk practices among men who have sex with men and transgender people in response to the 2022 mpox outbreak: a cross-sectional study in Victoria, Australia, Published online: 10 July 2023
- Mpox (monkeypox) knowledge, concern, willingness to change behaviour, and seek vaccination: results of a national cross-sectional survey, Published: 24 August 2023
- Case study: breakthrough mpox infection in Aotearoa New Zealand and Australia after completed two-dose course of subcutaneous modified vaccinia Ankara (MVA-BN) vaccines, Published: 19 October 2023
Publishers with monkeypox research & resource hubs
Elsevier’s resource Monkeypox Information Center is categorized into four sections: clinical information, research, vaccination and public health resources.
The clinical information is gathered into the Elsevier Healthcare Hub which holds “evidence-based clinical resources, including clinical overviews, patient education, and drug monographs.”
Their Monkeypox related content is also available free to read on ScienceDirect.
Elsevier will continue to add other resources to the Hub page as they become available.
Springer Nature has created a resource hub—Monkeypox in Focus—providing free access to the latest research on monkeypox.
They provide curated collections includes research articles, reviews and commentary covering the basic biology of monkeypox infection, its detection, methods to prevent infection, treatment approaches and the viruses evolution.
Through BMC, they have also collected “Monkeypox research highlights“and are encouraging “early sharing of research submitted to all our journals through preprints” while also strongly urging authors submitting articles related to this emergency to BMC journals to share underlying interim and final research datasets relating to the outbreak as rapidly and widely as possible.”
Taylor & Francis has launched a research portal — Monkeypox Outbreak 2022 — that houses free to access articles and book chapters related to monkeypox.
They have organized resources into the following categories: latest research and insights, origins and background of the outbreak, transmission and spread, treatment, vaccine research, vaccination strategy, tackling health-related stigma, health communication and media; and support and resources from health organizations.
Additionally, Taylor & Francis offers its Press Pass service to journalists and bloggers granting them access to more than 4 million peer-reviewed academic articles, including any associated with monkeypox.
Via its Monkeypox Resources for Health Professionals, Wolters Kluwer is providing free resources and clinical information to clinicians, nurses, and medical researchers. Resources will be updated as new information becomes available.
Among the free resources provided are:
- Monkeypox information, society and government-sponsored guidelines and patient education via UpToDate
- A collection of resources from Nursing Center curated specifically for nurses
- Insights on Monkeypox from Lippincott Journals
- Drug monographs, toxicology monographs, lab tests and patient education from Lexicomp
Monkeypox Research from Wiley provides a curated selection of recent peer-reviewed publications to “help researchers, clinicians, and the general public apply insights from scientific, peer reviewed research to support high quality patient care, and accelerate research and discovery.”
This online collection reflects Wiley’s “efforts to update the current monkeypox nomenclature and related communications to adopt terms that do not discriminate against or stigmatize sexual orientation, region, or race.”
Research has been organized by date, with a robust Monkeypox Collective Background archive, with resources made available from as far back at 1966.
Karger has compiled a free virtual article collection titled “Monkeypox in Context” that features previously published articles and a book. The collection explores the historical background of monkeypox, giving a new perspective on the current outbreak.
For example, the book “Human Monkeypox,” written by Zdenék Jezek and Frank Fenner in 1988, demonstrates to younger virologists how the virus was studied prior to PCR and easy access to genome testing.
Publisher Blog Posts on Monkeypox
Disseminating Monkeypox Research, MDPI
Monkeypox is a zoonotic virus, making headlines across the world. This article looks at the importance of research to combat viruses.
Additional publishers making monkeypox research available on their platforms
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