LibGuides: Researching COVID-19: Where to Find COVID-19 Research

Discipline Specific Resources

This page contains resources specifically about COVID-19 and therefore many are health science related. Consult your subject guide to find resources and databases related to your specific field to search through to get more about your field.

Subject Guides
Find a guide related to your program.

If you are researching in health sciences databases such as CINHAIL, the Nova Scotia Health Authority has put together some helpful search chains that you can just copy and paste into specific databases.

Queen's U Health Science Guide
The Queen's University library has curated a list of resources for health science students.
Mental Health Commission of Canada: COVID-19
The MHCC has selected credible information and resources about maintaining mental health during this time of crisis, and supporting people managing a mental illness in this new context.

Government of Canada : Indigenous Health
Data specific to indigenous populations and COVID-19 in Canada.
National Collaborating Centre for Indigenous Health
Webinars, podcasts, pamphlets and more.

StatCan
The StatCan website has a number of data dashboards tracking the economic impacts, rail traffic, immigration and more.
Canadian Economic and COVID-19 Dashboard
A dashboard of data specifically related to COVID-19 impacts on the Canadian economy from StatCan.
Canadian Business Resilience Network
Providing tools and resources to support business in operating during COVID-19.
Canadian Centre for Occupational Health & Safety
CCOHS providing resources for businesses looking to re-open safely during COVID-19.
International Monetary Fund: COVID-19
A policy tracker examining economic policy impacts in 196 countries.
Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development
"The OECD is compiling data, analysis and recommendations on a range of topics to address the emerging health, economic and societal crisis, facilitate co-ordination, and contribute to the necessary global action when confronting this enormous collective challenge."

Social Care Institute for Excellence
The SCIE in the UK has provided a number of resources for people practicing in social care fields.

Canadian Sources

CBC News
One of Canada's top news outlets COVID-19 page.
National Post
The National Post is another top news source for Canadian COVID-19 content.

Government of Canada Outbreak Update
Find current numbers of cases, recovered, tests and deaths. In addition to measures to reduce the spread, symptoms, travel restrictions and more.
Ontario Government
Self-assessment, findings a test centre, viewing results, status of cases, and information about reopening and phases, including sector specific guidelines.
City of Toronto Status of Cases
The city of Toronto has provided local information, including neighbourhood maps, demographics,

Many governments (at the city, region, provincial and federal levels) have begun providing their specific areas data on demographics and cases. Check out those sites as well.

Government of Canada Interactive Data Visualizations
Explore Canadian COVD-19 data related to demographics, cases, the epidemic curve, economic activity and more. Also includes some international data.
Public Health Ontario
Providing top level COVID-19 data for Ontario.

Other Sources

Journal of the Amercan Medical Association
Providing a number of resources for health science professionals.
The Lancet
The Lancet (and the Lancet collection of journals) is a peer reviewed, weekly health sciences journal. The Lancet has created a Coronavirus Resource Centre. This resource brings together new 2019 novel coronavirus disease (COVID-19) content from across The Lancet journals as it is published. COVID-19 content is freely accessible.
medRxiv
medRxiv is a preprint server for health sciences. The articles found here are preliminary reports and have not been peer-reviewed. Use your evaluation techniques gained through this tutorial to judge the credibility of the sources.
The New England Medical Journal
The peer-reviewed NEMJ is providing COVID-19 free to the public. The NEMJ provides health science information.
Science (journal)
Science is providing free access to COVID-19 articles. This includes peer-reviewed articles, comments, reviews and more.
Elsevier Coronavirus Information Center
Elsevier has pooled articles from across sources and can be filtered down to clinical information, mental health, drug discovery and more.
Wiley Online Library
Most information coming out in journals is for the health science community. The Wiley Online Journal Coronavirus resources provides some non-health science related information. This includes, leadership and management, mental health, social and economic impact, social psychology and more. Look for their "Special Collections".

CDC Centre for Disease Control and Prevention
The U.S. based CDC provides a wealth of health science information including recommendations, protocols, data, mathematical modeling and more.
National Institutes of Health
The U.S. government NIH website for COVID-19.

World Health Organization
The WHO has countless resources including response, recommendations, data, travel advice, mythbusters and more.

Many governments (at the city, region, provincial and federal levels) have begun providing their specific areas data on demographics and cases. Check out those sites as well.

John Hopkins COVID-19 Map
Frequently cited as one of the top resources for current COVID-19 worldwide figures.
Worldometers
Data broken down by countries and region that includes the current status including number of critical patients, infection rate per million and more.
Our World in Data
Data that can be filtered and manipulated in a number of ways in the site, plus links to their sources, exportable content, and reports.

Snopes: Coronavirus Collection
Snopes investigates and fact checks information from rumors and memes to the big questions. Snopes provides information about misinformation related to the spread, prevention, politics, conspiracy theories and more related to COVID-19.
CNN Coronavirus
CNN is a well respected news outlet. They have a stream of new information and is organized into topics such as health, business impact and everyday life.