Novel Coronavirus (COVID-19)
Suggested Literature Search Strategies for Different Databases
- MLA: COVID-19 Literature Searching"COVID-19 Literature Searches
Last updated 3/20/2020
Edited and selected by Kristin LaLonde, AHIP
This list will be updated as frequently as possible and has been created from crowd-sourced suggestions from MLA members and other health information professionals on the front lines of providing information during the COVID-19 pandemic. These search strings are provided via the good will of health information professionals, not from MLA as an organization." (from the website).
Publications / Studies / Articles
- COVID-19 virtual library of health data and evidence (Government of Canada)The virtual library from the Government of Canada provides centralized access to a searchable collection of links to knowledge products, data, and evidence about the impacts of COVID-19.
- Research Dataset (CORD-19)CORD-19 is a publicly available repository of information to assist in tracking the virus.
"The White House is tapping the expertise of researchers from Georgetown’s Center for Security and Emerging Technology to determine how data and open research can be used to address the COVID-19 pandemic. CSET has partnered with leading research groups to prepare and distribute the COVID-19 Open Research Dataset (CORD-19), a resource of more than 29,000 articles in JSON format about COVID-19 and the coronavirus family of viruses for use by the global machine learning community. The dataset represents the most extensive machine-readable coronavirus literature collection available for data and text mining to date." (From the website)
- Preprints - Health Sciences and BiologyCOVID-19 SARS-CoV-2 preprints from medRxiv and bioRxiv
Google Scholar has created quick links to research about COVID-19 from reputable journals and publishers, as shown in the image below.
Screen capture showing quick links to different journals and publishers:
- LitCOVID"LitCovid is a curated literature hub for tracking up-to-date scientific information about the 2019 novel Coronavirus. It is the most comprehensive resource on the subject, providing a central access to 1328 (and growing) relevant articles in PubMed. The articles are updated daily and are further categorized by different research topics and geographic locations for improved access. You can read more at Chen et al. Nature (2020) and download our data here." (from the website)
- Pandemic-Aid Networks Long COVID Research LibraryThis online library contains many of the important papers that have been published on Long Covid. You can access the library via the web site, or subscribe to the RSS feed to stay updated on newly added papers.
COVID-19: Living Evidence Map
- COVID-19: Living Systematic Map of the Evidence"In response to the current crisis, EPPI-Centre are maintaining an up-to-date map of the current evidence that we partition into broad domains for easy exploration."
Developed by EPPI-Center UK: The EPPI-Centre is a specialist centre for: (i) developing methods for systematic reviewing and synthesis of research evidence; and (ii) developing methods for the study of the use research.
Lorenc T, Khouja C, Raine G, Sutcliffe K, Wright K, Sowden A, Thomas J (2020) COVID-19: living map of the evidence. London: EPPI-Centre, Social Science Research Unit, UCL Institute of Education, University College London.