COVID-19: Literature

• Canadian Agency for Drugs and Technologies in Health (CADTH): CADTH COVID-19 Search Strings
  • Research Information Specialist-developed search strings on COVID-19 topics that can be cut and pasted into different databases.

• Retraction Watch: Retracted coronavirus (COVID-19) papers
  • Segment of their retraction database specific to COVID-19 papers.

Journals and publishers are offering portals to their COVID-19 content, some free to all and some available via the MSK Library through remote access. Most are continually updated. Here is a selection:

• BMJ Best Practice: Coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19)
• CellPress: Cell Press Coronavirus Resource Hub
• Cochrane: Coronavirus (COVID-19) - Cochrane resources and news
• EBSCO: COVID-19 Clinical Information
• Elsevier: Novel Coronavirus Information Center
• JAMA Network: Coronavirus Disease 2019 (COVID-19)
• The Lancet: COVID-19 Resource Centre
• The New England Journal of Medicine (NEJM): Coronavirus (Covid-19)
• ProQuest: COVID-19 Resources - Coronavirus Research Database
• Springer Nature: Coronavirus (COVID-19) Research Highlights
• Wiley Online Library: Covid-19: Novel Coronavirus Outbreak
• Wolters Kluwer: COVID-19 Tools & Resources for Clinicians

Federal and International Groups

• National Library of Medicine (NLM): LitCovid
  • A curated literature hub of COVID-19 articles in PubMed.
• National Library of Medicine (NLM): PubMed Clinical Queries: COVID-19 Articles
  • Designed to retrieve only citations related to COVID-19 within PubMed, and by research topic category selected, such as Transmission, Diagnosis, or Treatment.
• National Institutes of Health (NIH) Office of Portfolio Analysis: COVID-19 Portfolio
  • NIH-curated source for publications and preprints on COVID-19.
• National COVID Cohort Collaborative (N3C): COVIDsearch
  • Unified search across seven sources of research preprints, publications, or clinical trial information.
• World Health Organization (WHO): Global research on coronavirus disease (COVID-19)
  • Part of the larger WHO COVID-19 site, this database is a comprehensive and multilingual source of current global literature on COVID-19, updated daily on weekdays.

General

• Semantic Scholar: CORD-19
  • The COVID-19 Open Research Dataset (CORD-19) is a free resource of over 29,000 scholarly articles, including over 13,000 with full text, about COVID-19 and the coronavirus family of viruses. The final version was released June 2, 2022, and this site now redirects to a GitHub page.
• University of Basel: COVID-evidence
  • Non-profit initiative of the University of Basel and Stanford University to provide a database of all available trial evidence worldwide on the benefits and harms of interventions for COVID-19, browsable or downloadable as an Excel or CSV file.
• Evidence Aid: Coronavirus (COVID-19)
  • Evidence collection of plain-language summaries of systematic reviews in English, translated into multiple languages by volunteers.
• COVID-19 SARS-CoV-2 preprints from medRxiv and bioRxiv
  • Repository built by Yale, BMJ, and Cold Spring Harbor to compile preprints (preliminary studies that have not been peer-reviewed) from two preprint servers.
• Evidence for Policy and Practice Information and Co-ordinating Centre (EPPI-Centre): COVID-19: a living systematic map of the evidence
  • A weekly updated map of the current evidence surrounding COVID-19, partitioned into broad domains.
• The MIT Press: Rapid Reviews: COVID-19 (RR:C19)
  • Open-access overlay journal that selects pre-prints that are already freely available online in order to accelerate their peer review and disseminate findings if new, important, and accurately reported.
• The National Academies Press (NAP): Coronavirus Resources Collection
  • Compilation of NAP publications on COVID-19 prevention, response, and recovery.
• University of Michigan: COVID-19 Best Evidence Front Door
  • Single search pulls from meta-analyses, literature syntheses, and clinical guideline documents.
• McMaster University: COVID-19 Evidence Alerts from McMaster PLUS
  • Literature service updated every weekday designed to alert users to current best evidence for COVID-19 clinical care, appraised by frontline clinicians.