Mpox Information Center
20 August 2024
Microscopic image of Mpox (© istock.com/kontekbrothers)
Elsevier’s free resource for clinical information and research on the mpox virus
Editors note: In August, the World Health Organization (WHO) declared mpox a public health emergency of international concern opens in new tab/window, following up with a global Strategic Preparedness and Response Plan opens in new tab/window. At Elsevier, we make essential information related to specific public health emergencies openly available to support researchers, healthcare professionals, policy makers and the public.
Additional resources will be added continually, including relevant research content.
Updated on Sept 16, 2024
Clinical information
To help healthcare professionals respond to the outbreak, Elsevier has created the Mpox Healthcare Hub. Here you will find evidence-based clinical resources, including clinical overviews, patient education and drug monographs.
Research
Mpox articles freely available on ScienceDirect
Elsevier has made mpox-related articles and book chapters freely available on ScienceDirect opens in new tab/window and will continue to make new content available for the duration of the crisis.
The Lancet Mpox Collection
Access mpox-related research, reviews, commentaries and more as they are published across The Lancet Group’s journals. Here is some recent content:
Mpox: the need for a coordinated international response (Editorial) opens in new tab/window, The Lancet (Aug 18, 2024)
Sania Nishtar: The mpox emergency and the role of Gavi (Comment) opens in new tab/window, The Lancet (Aug 18, 2024)
Cell Press Mpox Collection
Access Cell Press’s mpox research as it is published. Here are some recent articles:
New — Mucker et al.: Comparison of protection against mpox following mRNA or modified vaccinia Ankara vaccination in nonhuman primates opens in new tab/window, Cell (September 4, 2024)
Ye et al.: Polyvalent mpox mRNA vaccines elicit robust immune responses and confer potent protection against vaccinia virus opens in new tab/window, Cell Reports (May 23, 2024)
Yue et al.: Mpox-AISM: AI-mediated super monitoring for mpox and like-mpox opens in new tab/window, iScience (April 17, 2024)
Early-stage research on SSRN’s Mpox Hub
SSRN — Elsevier’s platform for the rapid worldwide dissemination of early-stage research — is committed to making authors’ mpox-related preprints available immediately. Their Mpox Hub opens in new tab/window provides a curated view into new early-stage research to help researchers, public health authorities, clinicians and the public understand, contain, navigate and manage the current outbreak.
Mpox datasets on Mendeley Data
We have selected datasets indexed by the Data Monitor search engine (including figshare, Zenodo, Dryad and more) to make it easier to find potentially relevant datasets for this topic. This resource has been updated for the 2024 outbreak.
Usage notice
Elsevier has created this Mpox Information Center in response to the declared public health emergency of international concern, with free information in English on the mpox virus. It is hosted on Elsevier Connect, the company’s public news and information website.
Elsevier hereby grants permission to make all its mpox-related research that is available on the Mpox Information Center immediately available in publicly funded repositories, with rights for unrestricted research re-use and analyses in any form or by any means with acknowledgement of the original source. These permissions are granted for free by Elsevier for as long as the Mpox Information Center remains active.