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Coronavirus resources - UPDATED 7 April 2020

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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