Saturday, June 27, 2020

Archived - COVID-19: Current awareness and literature searching (no longer being updated)

Last updated 3rd February 2022.


To keep up to date with new scientific literature about COVID-19, use one of the searches or curated lists below.


Literature searches


Two dedicated databases:

LitCovid  (NLM database of COVID articles)


Search strategies

Knowledge for Healthcare (HEE) has a COVID-19 Search Bank, a collection of strategies 

PubMed

There is a COVID-19 Clinical Query in PubMed.

Robert Polson, (University of the Highlands and Islands library), search and feed of results (scroll down)

UK Health Security Agency Finding the Evidence: Coronavirus - under Searching for the Evidence.

GIDIF-RBM, an Italian association for health librarians.  (The page is in Italian).



Ovid Medline


There is a COVID-19 search limit in Ovid Medline

UK Health Security Agency Finding the Evidence: Coronavirus -  under Searching for the Evidence.

Ovid Medline expert searches from Ovid themselves


Scopus


GIDIF-RBM, an Italian association for health librarians.  (The page is in Italian).


Web of Science


GIDIF-RBM, an Italian association for health librarians.  (The page is in Italian).


Collections and lists of references, and alerts

NEW - Coronabuzz.  Updates and news, part of ResearchBuzz.

UK Security Agency Finding the Evidence: Coronavirus has alerts: daily alerts on the status of the virus, epidemiological literature, and alerts you can sign up for.
 
DisasterLit (NLM) - links to disaster medicine and public health documents, including grey literature on COVID-19.  Now discontinued, this page lists where the resources have gone.

LitCovid - NCBI curated collection of relevant literature from PubMed. 

PublonsCOVID-19 papers identified by Publons, with Altmetrics score (an indication of the paper's citation in social media)

Read QxMD - Daniel Schwartz, a Canadian physician, is maintaining a collection of papers about the coronavirus in Read QxMD.

Robert Polson (see above) is maintaining collections in RefWorks, compiled from various databases:
Scientific findings about coronavirus (WHO database, accessible from this page)

Trip - results on COVID-19.  Trip searches guidelines, evidence based summaries, systematic reviews and trials.

Science X Newsletter - this science news site has a COVID section and can send daily alerts.




I have posts covering other aspects of COVID-19.   Links are on the page here.

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