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COVID-19 Special Resources: Free COVID-19 Resources

These COVID-19 research resources have been generously made publicly available by publishers.

Last updated 13/8/20

ACS Publications

Articles related to Covid-19 from ACS Publications: https://pubs.acs.org/coronavirus

C&EN compilation details about the impact of Covid-19: https://cen.acs.org/sections/Tracking-the-novel-coronavirus.html

American Society for Microbiology:

https://asm.org/Press-Releases/2020/COVID-19-Resources
ASM is providing free access to nearly 50 research articles published over the last year in ASM’s 16 scholarly journals to support research efforts and communications about COVID-19.

Annual Reviews

https://www.annualreviews.org/research-support

Annual Reviews has set up a resource center for articles that are freely available:

Bezi Publishing Services

CEIC Data: Novel Coronavirus Outbreak Map:
https://info.ceicdata.com/en-our-insights-novel-corona-virus-outbreak-monitor
Explore CEIC Data's interactive global map covering the number of confirmed cases, deaths, recovered patients and concentration of the CoVID-19 virus. Free and updated daily.

Biochemical Society/Portland Press:

The Biochemical Society/Portland Press has, along with several organisations/publishers, signed a joint statement on sharing research data relating to the coronavirus outbreak freely available. The full news item regarding this, and a list of papers included (with hyperlinks) can be found here:
https://biochemistry.org/2020/01/31/biochemical-society-and-portland-press-sign-joint-statementon-sharing-research-data-relating-to-the-novel-coronavirus-ncov-outbreak/

BioOne:

Visit our COVID-19 resource page

In collaboration with the Association of Research Libraries and the Greater Western Library Alliance, BioOne and our publishers have made articles related to coronavirus in the following journals available via open access through 2020:

  • Avian Diseases (125 articles)
    Publisher: American Association of Avian Pathologists
  • Journal of Wildlife Diseases (56 articles)
    Publisher: Wildlife Disease Association
  • Journal of Zoo and Wildlife Medicine (34 articles)
    Publisher: American Association of Zoo Veterinarians


Your patrons will find additional relevant articles related to the coronavirus and pandemics on BioOne Complete.
The Association of Research Libraries has compiled COVID-19 news and resource pages from their member libraries and parent institutions; these are updated daily.

BMJ: 

This page collects all BMJ coverage of the coronavirus outbreak from across the BMJ's journals and learning resources. All articles and resources are freely available. https://www.bmj.com/coronavirus

Brill

Brill have opened up access to selected books and ejournal articles on topics such as epidemics (past and present), crisis and containment strategies, and home-schooling and distance learning

New titles will be added as they are published.

CABI

Free access to CABI's Coronavirus collection until 31 August using a voucher code.
To access ALL content on this page and in Collections:  go to ‘login’ or 'account' at top right. Follow instructions to 'redeem a voucher' and use CV4Y85D5JG9.  https://www.cabdirect.org/globalhealth

Cambridge University Press:

Please see below the free COVID-19 collection from Cambridge University Press. Some of this content is open access anyway, the rest has been made freely available:
https://www.cambridge.org/core/browse-subjects/medicine/coronavirus-free-access-collection

CAS (Division of The American Chemical Society)

CAS is currently working on a plan to allocate free resources to universities. 

Clarivate:

We have launched a global resource site https://clarivate.com/coronavirus-resources to help medical researchers and healthcare professionals.

CNKI

Free access to Featured Collections Releated to COVID-19.
http://new.oversea.cnki.net/index/marketing/CNKIebook/en/homepage.html

Covidence - Systematic Review Tool

Effective immediately, Covidence is offering free access to researchers who are pursuing work on COVID-19.
Please contact support@covidence.org for more information on gaining access to the Covidence platform.

Credo Reference:

To provide info on the Corona Virus, we are linking to our publishing partner, The Conversation, which has been posting timely, science-based articles on their website. These articles are fully open-access.
You can see more in this blog post

CSIRO

CSIRO has committed to posting full text of all COVID-19 content plus associated data into PubMed upon publication, for free and with data mining allowed.
CSIRO Publishing’s contribution will be small as we are not a medical publisher and our health publishing is small in scale. Never the less we are pleased to do our bit.

De Gruyter:

Free access to selected ejournal articles on CoVID-19, published online ahead of print. As at today (17 March 2020), two articles are available - one from China and the other from Italy.
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Dialog

Dialog has launched a new database: Covid-19 Research.   This provides free access to material on COVID-19 published since November 2019 that has been selected from premium biomedical databases on Dialog (including BIOSIS Previews, Embase, EMCare and MEDLINE) as well as content from the ProQuest Coronavirus Research Database.   The full range of Dialog's Covid-19 resources can be seen on the Covid-19 Research Resources Hub.

Duke University Press

Navigating the Threat of Pandemic is included as one of our reading lists that offer free content.

EBSCO:

Please know that we have made helpful information about COVID-19 and Coronavirus from our DynaMed® medical product available to you to use and share.

Elsevier:

Here users can find free COVID articles on ScienceDirect.

Since January 2020 Elsevier has created a COVID-19 resource center with free information in English and Mandarin on the novel coronavirus COVID-19. You can find our Cononavirus information center here.

Elsevier hereby grants permission to make all its COVID-19-related research that is available on the COVID-19 resource center - including this research content - immediately available in PubMed Central and other publicly funded repositories, such as the WHO COVID database with rights for unrestricted research re-use and analyses in any form or by any means with acknowledgement of the original source. These permissions are granted for free by Elsevier for as long as the COVID-19 resource center remains active.

Emerald

Emerald has a number of research resources related to the Coronavirus (Covid-19) and epidemics more broadly.
See https://www.emeraldgrouppublishing.com/promo/coronavirus.htm

Gale:

Gale is providing free access to the Gale Health and Wellness database for all libraries in Australia &  New Zealand until 30th June 2020.

https://infotrac.gale.com/itweb/61tr1?db=HWRC&id=hwrc

GeoScience World:

GeoScienceWorld has opened access to the two pertinent articles in our collection

https://pubs.geoscienceworld.org/msa/rimg/article/64/1/135/312347?searchresult=1
https://pubs.geoscienceworld.org/ccm/article/64/2/115/311068?searchresult=1

IGI Global:

Complimentary Related Articles and Chapters
Please feel free to integrate these resources into your research and share them across your network:

iGroup:

Attached below the publishers' list offering free resources:

  1. Medicom Medical Publishers; free access to the Medicom Conference Report library.
  2. Thieme; specialist information of the Coronavirus - free access.
  3. The New York Times; free access to the most important news, The Coronavirus outbreak.

JAMA Network

Browse the JAMA Network COVID-19 collection below, including Q&A's with NIAID's Anthony Fauci, an interactive map of the outbreak courtesy of The Johns Hopkins Center for Systems Science and Engineering, and past publications on vaccine development, infection control, and public health preparedness. JAMA offers a range of videos, features and related clinical information articles.

https://jamanetwork.com/journals/jama/pages/coronavirus-alert

JSTOR:

We have released of a new set of 26 journal archives in Public Health, making them openly accessible through June 30, 2020. 

Links to other useful resources can be found at about.jstor.org/covid19/

Karger:

Karger have created a Topic Article Package for COVID:

https://www.karger.com/Tap/Home/278492

Number of articles in this package: 48.  All articles are freely available.  Any new articles will be added to the package.

The Lancet:

https://www.thelancet.com/coronavirus
To assist health workers and researchers working under challenging conditions to bring this outbreak to a close, 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. All content listed on this page is free to access.

Mary Ann Liebert:

Mary Ann Liebert has selected a number of relevant articles from their Health Security, Telemedicine and e-Health and Genetic Engineering & Biotechnology News titles.
https://home.liebertpub.com/lpages/-coronavirus-science-backed-research/250/

McGraw-Hill

McGraw-Hill has a free to use “COVID Central” resource centre hosted (before the paywall) on AccessMedicine. COVID-19 Central is a source of weekly updated developments and analysis in clinical medicine, public health, and industry and will be aimed at healthcare professionals, trainees and students.

New England Journal of Medicine

https://www.nejm.org/coronavirus

NEJM is providing a collection of articles and other resources on the Coronavirus (Covid-19) outbreak, including clinical reports, management guidelines, and commentary. Editorials, perspectives and  original articles can be accessed free of charge. NEJM also provides links to useful sites and Journal Watch summaries.

National Library of Medicine

LitCovid is a curated literature hub for tracking up-to-date scientific information about the 2019 novel Coronavirus. It is the most comprehensive resource on the subject, providing a central access to 1200 (and growing) relevant articles in PubMed. The articles are updated daily and are further categorized by different research topics and geographic locations for improved access. You can download our data here

OECD:

The OECD has established a portal, gathering all relevant evidence, analysis and advice on policy responses published by the Organisation.  All resources that are shown, including publications normally behind access control on OECD iLibrary, have been made fully accessible for the duration of the crisis.

Ovid:

Ovid® has created a dedicated site, featuring expert searches, a widget and a link to access GIDEON — Global Infectious Diseases and Epidemiology Network, plus specific resources for nurses.   We will be adding additional content as it becomes available.  

Please note that this dedicated site, is also available in Chinese, Korean and Japanese. 

In addition to Ovid,  5MinuteConsult® has the up-to-date content on the identification, diagnosis and recommended courses of action related to this global health concern.  We’ll continue to add new information as our understanding of this global health crisis evolves. The 5MinuteConsult app is also available in the Apple® and Google Play™ Stores as a free download to existing subscribers, to provide people with fast answers to clinical information.  http://tools.ovid.com/coronavirus/

Oxford University Press:

Oxford University Press has made content from online book resources and leading journals freely accessible to assist researchers, medical professionals, policy makers, and others who are working to address this health crisis https://global.oup.com/about/covid19

PLOS:

https://blogs.plos.org/plos/2020/01/novel-coronavirus-2019-ncov-outbreak/

Here is what we are doing:

  • We are fast-tracking submissions related to the virus or this outbreak across all our seven journals
  • Fee waiver assistance is available as needed.
  • We strongly encourage all authors submitting coronavirus papers to PLOS journals to also post a preprint
  • We strongly encourage all members of the scientific community with expertise in coronavirus or disease outbreaks to volunteer their time to review pre-prints and papers under review, and to also curate, reuse, re-purpose, annotate, and otherwise guide people to resources for tackling this incident. For example, Outbreak Science Rapid PREreview
    https://outbreaksci.prereview.org is a web application for open, rapid reviews of out-break-related pre-prints. The most recent pre-prints relating to the novel coronavirus outbreak - posted across bioRxiv and medRxiv - can be found using this search link.
  • We commit to assisting authors in providing their data and findings to the WHO on submission to the journals
  • We will be updating our Disease Forecasting and Surveillance Channel with research related to coronavirus

ProQuest:

We have prepared a list of authoritative resources we would like to share with your members about the novel coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic - please click here to access.

ProQuest has announced the launch of a Coronavirus research database in response to the rapidly growing need for authoritative content related to the novel coronavirus. The new cross-disciplinary resource enables researchers to search and discover full-text articles, dissertations and other content from key publishers in one place. It can be accessed at search.proquest.com/coronavirus.

Royal College of Nursing

https://www.rcn.org.uk/clinical-topics/infection-prevention-and-control/novel-coronavirus

This page provides RCN members with the information and resources to support their understanding of and management of COVID-19. Nurses are fundamental to informing the public and reassuring them about this outbreak. Although most resources are targeted at RNC members, there are lots of useful links

The Royal Society

https://royalsocietypublishing.org/topic/special-collections/novel-coronavirus-outbreak

This special collection comprises some papers likely to be relevant to the outbreak.

RSNA:

Due to the current shortage of nucleic acid testing kits used to confirm the presence of the 2019 Novel Coronavirus (COVID-19), CT scans have become the first line of defense in diagnosing a suspected infection. RSNA is currently processing peer-reviewed articles and cases of COVID-19 to provide the global radiology community with a free diagnostic resource to help prevent the spread of this outbreak and get more patients the care they need. 

Please see the fowling link dedicated to COVID-19: https://pubs.rsna.org/2019-ncov  

Articles: https://pubs.rsna.org/2019-ncov_articles

Podcasts: https://pubs.rsna.org/do/10.1148/radiol.20200302.podcast/full/

Cases: https://cases.rsna.org/coronavirus

News: https://www.rsna.org/news/2020/January/Coronavirus-Update

Royal Society of Chemistry

Please find below a link to the freely available content from the Royal Society of Chemistry relating to COVID-19

 https://pubs.rsc.org/en/Journals/ArticleCollectionLanding?themeId=1eac56a1-4121-43c5-b3ec3d6f9d9226fb&journalName= 

Sage:

Any relevant content about COVID-19 is freely available for all readers. Please click on the microsite to see the articles:
https://journals.sagepub.com/coronavirus

There is also a list of freely available Corona Virus related articles.

Scitrus:

https://www.scitrus.com/special/novel%20coronavirus%20outbreak/

Semantic Scholar:

https://pages.semanticscholar.org/coronavirus-research

A Free, Open Resource for the Global Research Community

In response to the COVID-19 pandemic, the Allen Institute for AI has partnered with leading research groups to prepare and distribute the COVID-19 Open Research Dataset (CORD-19), 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 for use by the global research community.

Springer Nature

We have made available for free all relevant research we have published and continue to publish, are strongly urging our authors submitting articles related to this emergency to share underlying datasets relating to the outbreak as rapidly and widely as possible.

SSRN:

https://www.ssrn.com/index.cfm/en/coronavirus/

SSRN

SSRN’s Coronavirus and Infectious Disease Research page provides a curated view into the earlystage research to help researchers, public health authorities, clinicians and the public understand, contain and manage this disease.

Content is presented in the following categories:

A few additional resources for staying up to date on COVID-19:

Taylor and Francis:

https://newsroom.taylorandfrancisgroup.com/coronavirus-reading-list/

Peer-reviewed research published in Taylor & Francis journals is now free to access and available for anyone to read. In addition, TandF will support researchers, journals & funders to ensure that all research findings & data relevant to this outbreak are shared rapidly & openly. TandF has provided a list of some of the most recent, relevant studies.

Wellcome Trust:

A number of publishers have become signatories to The Wellcome Trusts 2016 Statement on data sharing in public health emergencies, which seeks to ensure that the World Health Organization (WHO) has rapid access to emerging findings that could aid the global response.

  • All peer-reviewed research publications relevant to the outbreak are made immediately open access, or freely available at least for the duration of the outbreak
  • Research findings relevant to the outbreak are shared immediately with the WHO upon journal submission, by the journal and with author knowledge
  • Research findings are made available via preprint servers before journal publication, or via platforms that make papers openly accessible before peer review, with clear statements regarding the availability of underlying data
  • Researchers share interim and final research data relating to the outbreak, together with protocols and standards used to collect the data, as rapidly and widely as possible - including with public health and research communities and the WHO
  • Authors are clear that data or preprints shared ahead of submission will not pre-empt its publication in these journals

U.S. National library of Medicine - NCBI

Severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 data hub: Search, retrieve, and analyze SARS-CoV2 Genbank data.

Wiley:

https://novel-coronavirus.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/

Free access to COVID-19 research resources: Wiley has made more than 5,000 COVID-19 related articles freely available in support of the global efforts in diagnosis, treatment, and prevention. As always, you can access our Wiley Online Library Training hub should you need any tips on the platform

Free, real-time feed of the latest research and news on COVID-19 from Scitrus. In addition to the articles on this site related to the current outbreak, Wiley is also making a collection of journal articles and our book chapters on coronavirus research freely available to the global scientific community.