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Coronavirus resources - UPDATED 7 April 2020

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Updated 07/04/2020

The latest updates will now be made available via a subject links page on the Health Library website. Please go to the website for the latest list of resources.

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 A number of publishers are making coronavirus-related resources and articles freely available. 

 Here are some of the ones we have been made aware of:

Public Health Information

Children's Commissioner - children's guide to coronavirus, you'll also find a link to resources for parents on this page

 The COVID game - play the game; answer questions and avoid the virus

 WHO Myth Busters - advice for the public from WHO

Shared Practice

FAB NHS Stuff - look for good practice shared by other NHS colleagues or add your own.

Topic Summaries

Clinical Knowledge Summaries - COVID-19 topic for primary care practitioners

 Dynamed - the Covid-19 topic is freely available. UHNM users who login via OpenAthens can "Follow" the topic to get updates sent to their email.

 Elsevier Clinical Key - key topic available to UHNM openathens users only. [short video Keep current with ClinicalKey & COVID-19 – Clinical Overviews; short video Keep current with ClinicalKey & COVID-19 – Patient Education ]

 UK Research and innovation - Coronavirus: the science explained from UK scientists

Rapid Reviews and Guidelines

Cochrane Library - special collections evidence relevant to critical care and infection control and prevention measures for Covid-19

 NICE - rapid guidelines and evidence reviews are available from NICE

 Oxford Covid-19 Evidence Service - regularly updated evidence synthesis and reviews.

 Royal College of Obstetricians and Gynaecologists - have created a guidance page on Coronavirus (COVID-19) infection and pregnancy

Royal Colleges and Other Professional Bodies - HEE is maintaining a list of  COVID-19 related resources that is being published by the various Royal Colleges. Please check back form updates.

Nursing Support

Mark Allen Group Online - freely available articles from the MAG Online library of nursing-based journals

 Nursing Standard (RCNi) - COVID-19 centre to support nurses

Medical Research

BMJ - relevant articles on coronavirus are being made freely available

Elsevier - have published articles, videos and more in their Coronavirus Information Centre

 Emerald Publishing - freely available research on: Coronavirus, the management of epidemics and the wider impact on society

 Lancet - have published a Covid-19 Resource Centre, and are making articles on this topic freely available

 NEJM - freely available articles available from NEJM

Oxford Journals - online content from leading journals has been made available

 Public Health England Library Service - updates available and collections listed

 Pubmed - a review article is being published in pubmed and regularly updated Features, Evaluation and Treatment Coronavirus (COVID-19)

 Taylor & Francis - free content related to coronavirus / COVID-19, including research articles and book chapters

Wiley - a range of articles from Wiley publications are being made freely available

 WHO - latest updates from the World Health Organisation, including a page on the global research

Literature Searching

A note about running searches in HDAS:
Freely available articles wont be identified as available within an HDAS search (ie you won't get a link unless we have a sub to the journal) - as we can't add individual articles to the link resolver. Therefore if you are doing a coronavirus-related search, you'll need to check separately whether the article is freely available or not.

 GIDIF-RBM (the Italian Assocation of Health Librarian and Information Specialists) - blogpost including suggested resources and search strategies Pubmed and Embase for coronavirus / covid-19.

Training

e-Learning for healthcare - online training programme for healthcare practitioners, created by HEE

 eLearning Resources - list of various courses and learning providers offering training on various aspects of coronavirus  / COVID-19, regularly updated by HEE.

More...

If you are aware of anything else significant that you think should be added to the list please either make a comment below or send the details to the eResources Librarian c.kent@keele.ac.uk. I will add any new items to this blog post.
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