Remote Services - Libraries Resource Guide: COVID-19 Resources

Best Practices

Critically Appraise COVID-19 research

Use Appraisal Checklists for guidance

This research is produced and shared rapidly due to needs at this unprecedented time.

Updated 6/15/2020

NIH guide notice (NOT-OD-20-146) encouraging NIH-supported clinical programs and researchers to adopt and use the standardized set of healthcare data classes, data elements, and associated vocabulary standards in the U.S. Core Data for Interoperability (USCDI) standard

Pandemic Vulnerability Indices

Gene Sequencing

Updated 12/30/2020

• Department of Homeland Security (DHS) Science and Technology Directorate (S&T) Master Question List  (MQL) Fact Sheet. Quickly presents current state of available information on COVID-19
• Centers for Disease Control (CDC) Newsroom. Also in Spanish
• Centers for Disease Control (CDC) has numerous guides for healthcare personnel, including biosafety, clinical care, infection control, PPE, postmortem guidance, and more.
• Centers for Disease Control (CDC) Clinician Outreach and Communication Activity (COCA) Scheduled and past recorded webinars related to various emergency preparedness & response topics plus slide decks.
• Defense Technical Information Center (DTIC) Covid-19 research and information from the U.S. Department of Defense.
• The Geriatric Emergency Department Collaborative (GEDC) COVID-19 links and resources.
• National Center for Biotechnology Information U.S. National Library of Medicine, LitCovid is a curated literature hub for tracking up-to-date scientific information about COVID-19.
• National Library of Medicine: Coronavirus Disease 2019 (COVID-19) summary 
• National Institute on Allergies and Infectious Diseases: Coronaviruses including COVID-19
• National Institutes of Health: Coronavirus Disease 2019 Situation Summary page
• Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA), U.S. Department of Labor: COVID-19 OSHA Standards
• Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA), U.S. Department of Labor: COVID-19 Control and Prevention
• U.S. Department of Health & Human Services: Disaster Information Management Research Center Personal Protective Equipment Resources (PPE) Topic Collection

Updated 12/30/2020

Updated 7/6/2020

Public Health Emergency COVID-19 Initiative

Publishers and National Library of Medicine have made COVID-19 and related content / data freely available. Click on link above for further information.

COVID-19 Resources & Collections

• AAMI Standards (Association for the Advancement of Medical Instrumentation): access to Standards and Resources for health technology
• ACP (American College of Physicians): access to guide and resources and  journals  on COVID-19 to support physicians
• AIP Publishing: access to research on infectious diseases, epidemics, computational epidemiology, pandemics. Available through March 31, 2021
• American Psychological Association (APA): access to APA journals on mental health issues on COVID-19 and pandemics
• American Society for Microbiology: access to Novel Coronavirus Resources 
• American Thoracic Society ATS: access to journals and clinical practice guidelines
• ASTM Standards: access to Standards related to medical masks, gloves, hand sanitizers, & other PPE & medical equipment
• BioOne: access to Peer-Reviewed Research to Inform the Coronavirus Crisis through 2020 
• BMJ (British Medical Journal): access to Coronavirus (covid-19): Latest news and resources
• Cambridge Unversity Press: access to COVID-19 resources and information
• CNKI: access to Open Access Online-First Publishing of Research Papers on COVID-19 (China)
• Cochrane Systematic Reviews: access to Coronavirus (COVID-19): infection control and prevention measures
• Cochrane Systematic Reviews: access to Coronavirus (COVID-19): evidence relevant to critical care
• DynaMed: access COVID-19 Diagnosis and Management Resource Center (Ebsco Medical Portal)
• Ebsco Medical Portal: access to Ebsco's General Medical Portal including clinician and researcher information
• Elsevier: access to Novel Coronavirus Information Center 
• F1000 Disease Outbreaks Research Gateway access to pandemic resources. Not all resources are peer-reviewed
• Emerald Publishing: access to content related to Coronavirus and the management of epidemics
• IEEE Xplore: access to Standards and Related Research for duration of pandemic
• JAMA (Journal of the American Medical Association) Network: access to Coronavirus Resource Center 
• JoVE: access to Coronavirus Free Access Resource Center (video demonstrations)
• Lancet: access to COVID-19 Resource Centre
• Mary Ann Liebert: access to science-backed research on coronavirus
• NEJM (New England Journal of Medicine): access to COVID-19 Resources 
• Ovid: access to Covid-19 Tools and Resources for Clinicians
• Oxford University Press: access to OUP Resources on Coronavirus and Related Topics 
• Sage Publishing: access to COVID-19 research
• Royal Society: access to research data and findings relevant to the novel coronavirus 
• Royal Society of Chemistry: access to Chemistry research related to COVID-19
• Sage Publishing: access to COVID-19 research
• SIAM (Society for Industrial and Applied Mathematics): access to SIAM Epidemiology Collection
• Springer Nature: access to research articles, ebooks, and commentary on COVID-19 
• Taylor & Francis: access to COVID-19 content
• Thieme: access to Specialist Information on the Coronavirus
• University of Chicago Press: access to Coronavirus Research
• Wolters Kluwer: Curated Medline research content
• Wiley Online Library: access to Novel Coronavirus Content Free to Access 

Updated 12/30/2020

Recognize COVID-19 Fake News, Misinformation, & Disinformation

Updated 11/1/2020

Easy to Understand

Updated 2/3/2021

Easy to Understand

Updated 11/30/2020

Re-Opening Guidance

Updated 12/30/2020

Health Department Directories

Updated 8/7/2020

Miami University ID Login Required

Updated 12/30/2020

Updated 12/30/2020