The COVID-19 Open Research Dataset (CORD-19), a repository of more than 29,000 scholarly articles on the coronavirus family from around the world, is being released today for free. The data set is the result of work by Microsoft Research, the Allen Institute for AI, the National Library of Medicine at the National Institutes of Health (NIH), the White House Office of Science and Technology (OSTP), and others. It includes machine-readable research from more than 13,000 scholarly articles. The aim is to empower the medical and machine learning research communities to mine text data for insights that can help fight COVID-19. "The White House worked with the National Academies of Science, Engineering, and Medicine and the World Health Organization to identify dozens of high-priority scientific questions related to COVID-19 to inform the call to action," White House CTO Michael Kratsios said today in a teleconference call.