Health Sciences Library Guides: COVID-19 Information Resources for Clinicians: Data and Research

Data

Our World in Data (University of Oxford) - Coronavirus
Genomic epidemiology of novel coronavirus (hCoV-19)
Coronavirus COVID-19 Global Cases by Johns Hopkins CSSE
COVID-19 Open Research Dataset (CORD-19) - Semantic Scholar
Coronavirus tracked - Financial Times
NCBI Virus - Severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 data hub
COVID-19 Pandemic: Humanitarian Data Exchange
Compilation of datasets from WHO, UNESCO, Johns Hopkins University, WFP, World Bank, UNICEF, ACAPS, IOM, INFORM, and Qatar Computer Research Institute related to COVID-19 and humanitarian concerns.
Mathematica COVID-19 Curated Data, Modeling, Resources
Publicly available data and analysis curated by Mathematica including case count and testing rates, surveillance sites, diagnosis and test codes, provider capacity and patient needs, identifying at-risk populations, forecasting tools, and policy actions and prevention.
COVID-19 Open Research Dataset Challenge (CORD-19)
This freely available dataset is provided to the global research community to apply recent advances in natural language processing and other AI techniques to generate new insights in support of the ongoing fight against this infectious disease. Competitive tasks to develop text and data mining tools.
COVID-19 Data Insight Papers - POLAR
In conjunction with Primary Healthcare Networks, POLAR (Australia) has produced a range of COVID-19 data insight papers examining the impacts on General Practice and the broader healthcare community.
COVID-19 Vaccine Pre-Purchases Globally
Duke Global Health Innovation Center tracking of vaccine pre-purchasing around the world using its Launch and Scale Speedometer.

SARS-CoV-2 Visualisation and Animation of Lifecycle
Animation of the SARS-CoV-2 life cycle that allows for annotation and asking questions in the research community.
COVID-19 Data Portal - Viral Sequences
Raw and assembled sequence and analysis of SARS-CoV-2 and other coronaviruses from the European Nucleotide Archive.

Publicly Accessible Research Databases

Openly available research databases and portals focused on COVID-19. Not all of the databases below will have full-text available to articles on topics outside coronaviruses.

COVID-19: a living systematic map of the evidence - EPPI Centre
COVID-19 Search in PubMed
WHO Global Research on Coronavirus Disease (COVID-19)
LitCovid - NIH/NLM
Curated collection of novel coronavirus literature.
iSearch COVID-19 Portfolio (NIH)
U.S. National Institutes of Health curated collection includes articles and pre-prints.
OVID Medline - Coronavirus
Web of Science (Clarivate) - Coronavirus Resources
Cochrane Library - Coronavirus (COVID-19): evidence relevant to critical care
TRIP Database - COVID-19
Trip is a clinical search engine designed to allow users to quickly and easily find and use high-quality research evidence to support their practice and/or care. Link to search for COVID-19 related research.
UpToDate - Coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19)
ClinicalKey - Coronavirus
DynaMed - COVID-19 (Novel Coronavirus)

Journals

Many publishers have made their coronavirus and COVID-19 resources openly available during the pandemic. The links below will bring you to COVID-19 related resources on each journal website. Individual articles should be critically appraised and a body of evidence should be used to make clinical decisions.

The Lancet
The Lancet is the world's leading independent general medical journal. A special resource centre has been created for COVID-19 that provides content that is free to access from across the Lancet journals.
New England Journal of Medicine
Special topical page for Coronavirus (Covid-19) outbreak including clinical reports, management guidelines, and commentary. The New England Journal of Medicine (NEJM.org) is dedicated to bringing physicians the best research and key information at the intersection of biomedical science and clinical practice, and to presenting the information in an understandable and clinically useful format.
British Medical Journal (BMJ)
Latest news and resources from the British Medical Journal including clinical review, opinion, editorial, and BMJ best practice.
JAMA: Journal of the American Medical Association Network
Special page for Coronavirus Disease 2019 (COVID-19) including feature reports, clinical information, multimedia, maps, and international guidance. JAMA is the most widely circulated medical journal in the world.
Elsevier Novel Coronavirus Information Center
Includes free health and medical research on 2019-nCoV with expert guidance, clinical information, research/drug discovery, and news.

PrePrints

NOTE: Preprints are not peer-reviewed and should be assessed with appropriate caution. They should not be used for clinical practice or reported as accepted information or guidance.

medRxiv and bioRxiv COVID-19 SARS-CoV-2 preprints
SSRN Coronavirus and Infectious Disease Research page
openVirus - Aggregation of resources (not peer-reviewed)
Outbreak Science Rapid PREreview
Outbreak Science Rapid PREreview is a web application for open, rapid reviews of outbreak-related preprints.
SciELO PrePrints
You will need to search for COVID-19 or SARS-CoV-2 or coronavirus infections to retrieve relevant results.

Clinical Trials

Cochrane COVID-19 Study Register
U.S. National Library of Medicine Clinical Trials Database - COVID-19
ClinicalTrials,gov site with federally-funded clinical studies related to COVID-19.
International Clinical Trials Registry Platform (ICTRP)
WHO search portal for ongoing and completed clinical trials. Conduct search or download information on COVID-19 trials.
EU Clinical Trials Register - COVID-19
Trials with EudraCT protocol from the European Union and the European Economic Area.
STAT Covid-19 Drugs and Vaccine Tracker
Here’s a guide to some of the most talked-about efforts to treat or prevent coronavirus infection, with details on the science, history, and timeline for each endeavor (and we will update the tracker with any new developments). We’re looking at novel medicines, not repurposed drugs.