This page contains resources for doing research on COVID-19. Below you can find:
See also: Freely-available e-books and documents found in WorldCat: COVID-19 resources
Before starting your research, take our online learning module Navigating the COVID-19 Evidence Landscape:
1. Describe different types of information sources and the evidence processing involved in creating them
2. Understand the unique special considerations to be aware of when searching for and using ever-evolving evidence for COVID-19
SELECTED NEW 2021 MeSH (Medical Subject Headings in Medline) - updated Nov 18, 2020 - for more new MeSH, see source (PDF):
| Diagnosis | Viruses |
Infections Respiratory Tract Diseases |
Complex Mixtures | Equipment and Supplies |
Environment and Public Health |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
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COVID-19 Nucleic Acid Testing/ COVID-19 Serological Testing/ COVID-19 Testing/ |
SARS-CoV-2/ |
COVID-19/ |
COVID-19 Vaccines/ |
N95 Respirators/ |
Physical Distancing/ |
| Enzymes & Coenzymes | Amino Acids, Peptides, and Protein | Chemical Actions and Uses | Animal Diseases | Eukaryota |
|---|---|---|---|---|
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Coronavirus 3C Proteases/ Coronavirus Papain-Like Proteases/ Coronavirus RNA-Dependent RNA Polymerase/ |
Coronavirus Envelope Proteins/ Coronavirus M Proteins/ Coronavirus Nucleocapsid Proteins/ |
Coronavirus Protease Inhibitors/ |
Viral Zoonoses/ |
Pangolins/ |
Developed January 21-22 by OVID expert searchers
Copy and paste each line into MEDLINE
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(exp coronavirus/ or coronavirus*.mp.) and (wuhan or beijing or shanghai or 2019-nCoV or nCoV or COVID-19 or SARS-CoV-2).mp.
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| 2 |
coronavirus*.ti. or (novel coronavirus*.mp. and (exp china/ or china.mp.)) or ((pneumonia.mp. or exp pneumonia/) and Wuhan.mp.)
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| 3 |
('COVID-19' or '2019-nCov' or 'SARS-CoV-2').mp. or exp Coronavirus Infections/
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2 or 3
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limit 4 to yr="2020 -Current"
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Developed March 20 by Loren Hackett at Cleveland Clinic Floyd D. Loop Alumni Library
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(nCoV or 2019-nCoV or ((new or novel or wuhan) adj3 coronavirus) or covid19 or covid-19 or SARS-CoV-2 or "Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome Coronavirus 2").mp.
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| 2 |
(therap* or treat* or dose or doses or dosag* or pharmacotherap* or drug or antiviral).mp.
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| 3 |
1 and 2
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Developed by OVID expert searches
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((covid or covid-19 or covid19 or SARS-COV-2 or coronavirus) and (vaccine$ or vaccinating or vaccination$1 or immunization$ or immuniz$ or "herd immunity" or "anti adj vaccination")).mp
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| 2 | ((exp vaccines/ or exp vaccinations/ or vaccination refusal/ or anti-vaccination movement/ or immunization programs/ or mass vaccination/ or vaccination coverage/ or Immunity, Herd/) and (COVID-19/ or SARS-CoV-2/)) or COVID-19 vaccines/ |
| 3 |
1 or 2
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Updated April 7 by Ovid Expert Searchers
Updated April 7 by Ovid Expert Searchers
Updated April 7 by Ovid Expert Searchers
Updated April 7 by Ovid Expert Searchers
Developed April 6 by by Ellen Aaronson at Mayo Clinic Libraries
Copy and paste each line into OVID Medline with Preprints.
| 1 | ((("Corona virinae" or "corona virus" or Coronavirinae or coronavirus or COVID or nCoV) adj4 ("19" or "2019" or novel or new)) or (("Corona virinae" or "corona virus" or Coronavirinae or coronavirus or COVID or nCoV) and (wuhan or china or chinese)) or "Corona virinae19" or "Corona virinae2019" or "corona virus19" or "corona virus2019" or Coronavirinae19 or Coronavirinae2019 or coronavirus19 or coronavirus2019 or COVID19 or COVID2019 or nCOV19 or nCOV2019 or "SARS Corona virus 2" or "SARS Coronavirus 2" or "SARS-COV-2" or "Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome Corona virus 2" or "Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome Coronavirus 2").ti,ab,hw,kw. |
| 2 |
exp Telemedicine/ OR (telemed* or telehealth* or telemental*).ti,ab. or (video* adj2 (consult* or interview* or monitor*))
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OR (remote adj2 (interview* or consult* or monitor* or care or follow-up))
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OR (phone adj2 (call* or interview* or consult* or monitor*)) OR (virtual* adj2 (consult* or interview* or monitor* or follow-up or diagnos* or assess*)).mp. [mp=title, abstract, original title, name of substance word, subject heading word, floating sub-heading word, keyword heading word, organism supplementary concept word, protocol supplementary concept word, rare disease supplementary concept word, unique identifier, synonyms]
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| 5 | 2 or 3 or 4 |
| 6 | 1 and 5 |
Developed Nov 2020 by the National Institute for Health & Care Excellence. Also includes strategies for Ovid EMBASE, Cochrane, BioRxiv and MedRxiv.
Copy and paste the text below into PubMed.
((wuhan[All Fields] AND ("coronavirus"[MeSH Terms] OR "coronavirus"[All Fields])) AND 2019/12[PDAT] : 2030[PDAT]) OR 2019-nCoV[All Fields] OR 2019nCoV[All Fields] OR COVID-19[All Fields] OR SARS-CoV-2[All Fields]
Copy and paste the text below into PubMed.
("COVID-19"[Supplementary Concept] OR "COVID-19"[All Fields] OR "2019 novel coronavirus disease"[All Fields]) OR ("COVID-19"[Supplementary Concept] OR "COVID-19"[All Fields] OR "2019 novel coronavirus infection"[All Fields]) OR ("COVID-19"[Supplementary Concept] OR "COVID-19"[All Fields] OR "2019 ncov disease"[All Fields]) OR ("COVID-19"[Supplementary Concept] OR "COVID-19"[All Fields] OR "2019 ncov infection"[All Fields]) OR ("COVID-19"[Supplementary Concept] OR "COVID-19"[All Fields] OR "coronavirus disease 2019"[All Fields]) OR ("COVID-19"[Supplementary Concept] OR "COVID-19"[All Fields] OR "coronavirus disease 19"[All Fields]) OR (coronavirus[All Fields] OR coronavirus'[All Fields] OR coronavirus's[All Fields] OR coronavirusapplikation[All Fields] OR coronaviruscpe[All Fields] OR coronaviruse[All Fields] OR coronaviruses[All Fields] OR coronaviruses'[All Fields] OR coronavirusinfektion[All Fields] OR coronavirusinfektionen[All Fields] OR coronaviruslike[All Fields] OR coronavirusreplikation[All Fields] OR coronavirussen[All Fields] OR coronavirusurile[All Fields]) OR (coronovirus[All Fields] OR coronoviruses[All Fields]) OR ("coronavirus infections"[MeSH Terms] OR ("coronavirus"[All Fields] AND "infections"[All Fields]) OR "coronavirus infections"[All Fields]) OR ("severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2"[Supplementary Concept] OR "severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2"[All Fields] OR "wuhan coronavirus"[All Fields]) OR ("severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2"[Supplementary Concept] OR "severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2"[All Fields] OR "2019 ncov"[All Fields]) OR ("COVID-19"[All Fields] OR "severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2"[Supplementary Concept] OR "severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2"[All Fields] OR "2019-nCoV"[All Fields] OR "SARS-CoV-2"[All Fields] OR "2019nCoV"[All Fields] OR (("Wuhan"[All Fields] AND ("coronavirus"[MeSH Terms] OR "coronavirus"[All Fields])) AND 2019/12[PDAT] : 2030[PDAT])) OR (wn[All Fields] AND ("complications"[Subheading] OR "complications"[All Fields] OR "co"[All Fields])) OR (novel[All Fields] AND ("coronavirus"[MeSH Terms] OR "coronavirus"[All Fields])) OR (new[All Fields] AND ("coronavirus"[MeSH Terms] OR "coronavirus"[All Fields])) OR (2019[All Fields] AND novel[All Fields]) OR (new[All Fields] AND ("coronavirus"[MeSH Terms] OR "coronavirus"[All Fields])) OR ncov[All Fields] OR ("severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2"[Supplementary Concept] OR "severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2"[All Fields] OR "sars cov 2"[All Fields]) OR (ncov[All Fields] OR ncov'[All Fields] OR ncov's[All Fields] OR ncovascularisatlon[All Fields] OR ncovering[All Fields] OR ncovid[All Fields] OR ncovin[All Fields] OR ncovino[All Fields] OR ncovp[All Fields] OR ncovp1[All Fields] OR ncovs[All Fields]) AND wuhan[All Fields]
Click one of the hyperlinked options below to see the search results in PubMed.
From UnBound Medicine
Search string developed by the Medical Center Library & Archives, Duke University
Search results by Brian Baker @ Valley Children's Hospital, March 18
Search results by Kathy Zeblisky @ Phoenix Children’s Hospital, March 18
Click the links below to review the search results. Search strategies developed by the Medical Center Library & Archives, Duke University.
Click here to see search results in PubMed.
March 25 by Clinical Librarian Team at the Health Sciences Library, University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill
Click here to see search results in PubMed.
March 25 by Basia Delawska-Elliott and Andrew Hamilton from Oregon Health & Science University, copyedited by Tracy Shields at Naval Medical Center Portsmouth
Click here to see search results in PubMed.
March 20 collaboration by Dean Giustini at UBC and pubmedsearches.blogspot.com and Natalie Clairoux at Université de Montréal, Bibliothèque de la santé)
Click here to see search results in PubMed.
March 18 by Yimin Geng; Kate J. Krause @ Research Medical Library, UT MD Anderson Cancer Center
Click here to see search results in PubMed.
March 18 by Maureen Dunn @ Concord Hospital
Click here to see search results in PubMed.
April 9 by Abigail Smith @ SUNY Upstate Health Sciences Library
Click here to see search results in PubMed.
April 6 by Lindsay Boyce @ Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center
Click here to see search results in PubMed.
April 6 by Grace Spiewak at Funk Agriculture, Consumer, and Environmental Sciences (ACES) Library, University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign
Click here to see search results in PubMed.
April 1 by Ellen M. Aaronson at Mayo Clinic Libraries
Click here to see search results in PubMed.
March 30 by System Library Services at Providence St. Joseph Health
Developed by expert searchers at Ovid May 25, 2020, in consultation with the APA.
Copy and paste each line into Ovid APA PsycINFO
| 1 | exp *nursing/ or *nurses/ or exp physicians/ |
| 2 | "stress and coping measures"/ or exp coping behavior/ or exp "resilience (psychological)"/ or exp stress management/ or *suicide prevention/ |
| 3 | disease outbreaks/ or epidemics/ or pandemics/ or (coronavirus* or 2019-ncov or ncov19 or ncov-19 or 2019-novel Cov or ncov or covid or covid19 or covid-19 or covid 2019 or "coronavirus 2" or sars-cov2 or sars-cov-2 or sarscov2 or sarscov-2 or sars-coronavirus2 or sars-coronavirus-2 or SARS-like coronavirus* or coronavirus-19 or corona virus* or novel coronavirus*).mp |
| 4 | (("3410" or "3430") and ("3310" or "3350" or "3365")).cc. |
| 5 | (1 and 2) or (1 and 3 and 4) |
By medical librarian Wichor Bramer (Erasmus MC–Erasmus University Medical Centre)
Copy and paste the text below, or click to see the Google Scholar search results.
2019nCoV|"2019 nCoV|CoV|coronavirus"|"2019 novel|new coronavirus|cov"|"wuhan coronavirus|cov|ncov|outbreak"|"wuhan*coronavirus|cov|ncov|outbreak"|"wuhan**coronavirus|cov|ncov|outbreak"|"coronavirus|cov|ncov*wuhan"
Access a variety of Medline and PubMed literature searches created by health science librarians, compiled and updated frequently by the Medical Librarians Association (MLA), on topics like:
Search strings developed by research specialists at CADTH. Topics include COVID-19, respiratory pandemics, ethics (customized for pandemics), PPE, patient isolation, and telehealth. Searches translated for MEDLINE, PubMed, and LITCOVID.
Access a variety of PubMed searches organized in the following topic areas:
Access Elsevier's search string for retrieving articles in ScienceDirect below, or see the search results in ScienceDirect.
"COVID-19" OR Coronavirus OR "Corona virus" OR "2019-nCoV" OR "SARS-CoV" OR "MERS-CoV" OR “Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome” OR “Middle East Respiratory Syndrome”
Access expert search strings for PubMed focused on the following areas:
This library guide contains a variety of advanced search strategies in PubMed, Embase & Scopus.
These RSS Feeds provide real-time updates to articles published in Scopus* on the Coronavirus. Click on the links below to have the top 20 results sent to your RSS reader each day.
*Note: restricted to current U of T users.
Government institutions, publishers, and academic journals have compiled curated research collections on COVID-19. These literature hubs provide organized resources you can use to help inform your research:
Compiled by the Computational Biology Branch of the National Center for Biotechnology Information (NCBI)/National Library of Medicine (NLM).
Provides access to 1200+ (and growing) articles on COVID-19. Categorized by different topics and geographic regions. Updated daily.
Access guidance, latest updates, research from the BMJ, and most read articles. Includes guidelines on remote consultations, systematic reviews on diagnosis and prognosis, randomized trial of cloth vs. medical masks and more. Articles are compiled from journals such as the British Journal of Ophthalmology, Gut, Stroke and Vascular Neurology. Content is free and updated daily.
COVID-19 Primer provides a comprehensive overview of the latest information on the disease, and is updated every 24 hours. Using the most advanced NLP algorithms, read summaries and discover trends and terminologies used in the latest COVID-19 research papers. You can subscribe to the weekly briefing in the top right corner.
This living literature map is updated every few days. It categorizes the emerging literature by:
Created by the Department of Health and Social Care Reviews Facility (a collaboration between three centres of excellence: EPPI-Centre (Evidence for Policy and Practice Information and Co-ordinating Centre), UCL Institute of Education, University College London; CRD (Centre for Reviews and Dissemination), University of York; and PHES (Public Health, Environments and Society), London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine)
Provided by the National Institute for Health Research (NIHR).
An online registry of protocols for systematic reviews, rapid reviews, and overviews/umbrella reviews. PROSPERO is currently fast-tracking registration of protocols related to COVID-19. Please note that there are registries for both human studies and animal studies.
NOTE: Preprints are preliminary studies that have NOT BEEN PEER-REVIEWED. They should not be regarded as conclusive, guide clinical practice/health-related behaviour, or be reported in news media as established information.
bioRxiv RSS feed for latest preprints on COVID-19:
Need some data help? Check out these useful resources from the U of T Libraries Covid-19 Data Resources Guide (Map & Data Library):
Using Data Critically | Data Evaluation Checklist | Data & Statistics Sources
Maps & GIS | Visualizations | Tutorials
Top 100 R resources on Novel COVID-19 Coronavirus (Updated Mar 12, 2020)
Guidance on working with COVID-19 data:
Provided by Research Data Alliance (RDA) COVID-19 Working Group (CWG) members.
Guidelines and recommendations on data sharing under the present COVID-19 circumstances. The fifth and final draft of the Recommendations and Guidelines from the RDA COVID-19 working group.
From the United Nations, Statistics Division of the Department of Economic and Social Affairs.
Hub of global and national dashboards in different languages. Also includes guidance, actions, tools, and best practices for statistics shared by the global community
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