COVID-19 (Coronavirus) information resources

Relevant Information

• UPEI information on COVID-19
• PEI information about covid-19 for PEI residents
• Government of Canada public health information about COVID-19 including an updated chart on the amount of confirmed and presumed cases in each province/territory
• World Health Organization information about COVID-19 including Database of publications on coronavirus disease (updating daily)
• The Centre for Evidence Based Medicine With Univ of Oxford is providing rapid review of ongoing research relating to COVID-19
• Ovid (one of our top medical platforms) has pre-configured a search on the topic in their medical literature, many articles are rushed online ahead of print so are very recent.

Many scholarly publishers are making freely available their resources relating to COVID-19.

The International Coalition of Library Consortia (ICOLC) is maintaining an up-to-date list of such offers.

Below are some of particular note.

• American Society for Microbiology (ASM): free access to research articles published over the last year in ASM’s 16 scholarly journals 
• BioOne - includes:
  • Avian Diseases (125 articles)
  • Journal of Wildlife Diseases (56 articles)
  • Journal of Zoo and Wildlife Medicine (34 articles)
• Cambridge University Press:
  • Free access to coronavirus research
• Elsevier: Novel Coronavirus Information Center
• Duke University Press: Navigating the threat of Pandemic Syllabus
• DynaMed: COVID-19 Diagnosis and Management Resource Center
• JAMA Network includes recent articles in JAMA (American Medical Association) journals, Q&A's with NIAID's Anthony Fauci, an interactive map of the outbreak courtesy of The Johns Hopkins Center for Systems Science and Engineering, and past publications on vaccine development, infection control, and public health preparedness.
• JoVE: Covid-related medical procedure videos (only the ones with the green dot are free)
• Mary Ann Liebert, Inc: a collection of articles is available free online through the end of April 
• NEJM (New England Journal of Medicine): COVID-19 Resources
• Oxford University Press: Free Access to OUP Resources on Coronavirus and Related Topics 
• PubMed LitCovid - 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 over 1,100 (and growing) research articles in PubMed. The articles are updated daily and are further categorized by different research topics and geographic locations for improved access.
• Sage Publishing: Access COVID-19 Articles (freely available) 
• Springer Nature: Free research articles, ebooks, and additional commentary on COVID-19 
• Wiley Online Library: Novel Coronavirus Content Free to Access (2024 update, some articles are back to being non-free; UPEI users should use this link instead)

This page will be updated as the librarians are informed about new sources.