COVID-19 Resources

Resources relating to COVID-19

Coronavirus resources
Compiled: 4^th March 2020
Last update: 2^nd August 2021

The list of resources was put together during the planning stage of the COVID-19: a living systematic map of the evidence and has been updated as new resources have emerged. We do not claim that this is an exhaustive list, or that the content of every resource is accurate. The list simply aims to help those looking for research on COVID-19, and users should assess for themselves the relevance and reliability of each source. We have compiled the list based on resources known to our project team members as well as consulting the following sources:

Evidence Aid Coronavirus (COVID-19) Resources - https://www.evidenceaid.org/coronavirus-resources/

Highland Health Sciences Library: Coronavirus resources - https://libguides.uhi.ac.uk/hhsl/Coronavirus

Public Health England Knowledge & Library Services - Finding the evidence: Coronavirus

Expert searching email discussion group - https://pss.mlanet.org/mailman/listinfo/expertsearching_pss.mlanet.org

European Association of Health Information and Libraries email discussion group http://eahil.eu/

Resource	Last updated	Search strategy available?	Search details	Notes
COVID-19 databases (including living maps and trial trackers)
Cochrane COVID-19 study register	daily	Y	Daily searches of ClinicalTrials.gov and PubMed, weekly searches of the WHO's International Clinical Trials Registry Platform (ICTRP), Embase, medRxiv and monthly searches of CENTRAL – see website About section for further details.	Annotated collection of human studies on COVID-19, including interventional, observational, diagnostic, prognostic, epidemiological, qualitative and economic designs.
COVID-19: A living systematic map of the evidence	weekly	Y	Content was derived from Embase and MEDLINE searches to begin with, but it now operates from an automated surveillance of the Microsoft Academic dataset. Further details available in the About section of the map.	From NIHR Policy Research Programme Reviews Facility, a collaboration between the EPPI-Centre, CRD and LSHTM.
COVID-19 Best Evidence Front Door	01 July 2021	N	Unclear – website states collected from trusted sources including the Cochrane Collaboration and Michigan Critical Care Collaborative Network.	Database of highly-reliable meta-analyses, literature syntheses, and clinical guidelines on COVID-19. 350 documents currently. Provided by The Taubman Health Sciences Library and the Department of Learning Health Sciences at the University of Michigan.
COVID-19 Evidence Reviews	28 July 2021	N	Searches of LitCovid, COVID-19 Portfolio Search, WHO COVID database, CEBM Oxford COVID-19 Evidence Service, Cochrane, ECRI COVID-19 Center, National Collaborating Centre for Methods and Tools, McMaster University, INHATA member organizations, PROSPERO, CEBM Questions Under Review, and Cochrane COVID Rapid Reviews.	Catalog of COVID-19 related reviews provided by the VA Evidence Synthesis Program. Includes completed and in progress reviews by evidence synthesis groups from US and around the world. Those meeting minimum quality standards and living reviews are tagged for easier identification.
COVID-19 Research Articles Downloadable Database	09 Oct 2020	Y	Systematic searches of various bibliographic databases and hand searching selected grey literature sources. See website under methodology for full details of search strategies used and sources searched.	Provided by The Stephen B. Thacker CDC Library. NB: Content up to 9 October 2020 only available via this website. The database has now merged with the WHO COVID-19 database.
COVID-19 Research Project Tracker	23 July 2021			Live database of funded COVID-19 research projects from around the world from UK Collaborative on Development Research (UKCDR) and Global Research Collaboration for Infectious Diseases Preparedness (GLoPID-R).
COVID-19 TrialsTracker	11 Nov 2020		Weekly download of WHO International Clinical Trials Registry Platform (ICTRP) COVID-19 dataset.	From the DataLab and Centre for Evidence-Based Medicine, University of Oxford.
COVID-19 vaccine development pipeline	26 July 2021	Y	WHO COVID-19 vaccine landscape document, Milken Institute COVID-19 Treatment and Vaccine Tracker, ClinicalTrials.gov, PubMed, medRxiv	Developed by the Vaccine Centre at LSHTM to follow COVID-19 vaccine candidates as they progress through the development pipeline. Living review now available with additional searches of PubMed and medRxiv to identify articles reporting results from human clinical trials of COVID-19 vaccine candidates.
COVID-evidence	04 June 2021	Y	Searches of L.OVE platform, WHO International Clinical Trials Registry Platform (ICTRP) and ClinicalTrials.gov. Protocol here	A living database of planned, ongoing and completed trials of interventions to treat and prevent COVID-19.
COVID-NMA	12 July 2021	Y	Searches of L.OVE platform, Cochrane COVID study register, Retraction Watch database, WHO International Clinical Trials Registry Platform (ICTRP), European Medicines Agency and U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) approvals website. Latest protocol	Living mapping of ongoing research on COVID-19 and a living synthesis of published trials.
CYTEL map of ongoing clinical trials	09 July 2021	Y	WHO International Clinical Trials Registry Platform, European Clinical Trials Registry, clinicaltrials.gov, Chinese Clinical Trial Registry, German Clinical Trials registry, Japan Primary Registries Network, Iranian Clinical Trial Registry, and Australian New Zealand Clinical Trials Registry.	2908 trials
IPPO Living Map of Social Science Systematic Reviews	30 July 2021	Y	ER-Web, PubMed, COVID-19 Evidence Reviews Database, Epistemonikos. Further details listed in: about this map	Living mapping of social science systematic reviews
LitCovid	Updated daily	N		Curated literature hub containing articles from PubMed on 2019 novel Coronavirus. Categorised by research topic and geographic location. 152,106 articles 19/07/2021.
Living Overview of the Evidence: Coronavirus COVID-19	daily	y	Searches of various databases including Epistimonkos, PubMed, Clinicaltrials.gov, ISRCTN – full list of sources and methods described here	6757 systematic reviews and 186,463 primary studies, 19/07/2021.
Living systematic review of COVID-19 registered clinical trials	Weekly	Y	Weekly searches of WHO International Clinical Trials Registry Platform – see protocol	From the Infectious Diseases Data Observatory (IDDO). Aiming to summarise the characteristics of COVID-19 clinical trial registrations. Baseline results of living systematic review and interactive visualisation available.
Living systematic review of mental health in COVID-19	23 July 2021	Y	Searches of MEDLINE (Ovid), PsycINFO (Ovid), CINAHL, EMBASE (Ovid), Web of Science, China National Knowledge Infrastructure, Wanfang databases, and various trial registers – see protocol
LIVIVO COVID-19 Collection	?	N	Sources searched to populate the collection.	Search portal containing around 50000 studies on COVID-19 / SARS-CoV-2. Also see Preprint database containing COVID-19 related preprints from sources such as medRxiv, bioRxiv, ResearchSquare.
NIHR Innovation Observatory	Updated daily	N	Searches of ClinicalTrials.gov, WHO ICTRP, EU Clinical Trials Register, CHiCTR, China Trial Registries, GlobalData, Foundation for Innovation New Diagnostics	Database of ongoing clinical trials of therapies and diagnostic tests relating to COVID-19.
Norwegian Institute of Public Health systematic and living map on COVID-19 evidence	09 Feb 2021	Y	Screened results of weekly searches of MEDLINE and Embase provided by the Eppi-Center and weekly search of Scopus. See here	Map of publications on COVID-19 categorised into specific topics, population groups and publications types.
Public Health England COVID-19 Register	26 Feb 2021	na	na	Register of PHE led studies since February 2020. Access via PHE Finding the Evidence: Coronavirus page - scroll down to 6^th heading “Links to PHE Research”
UNCOVER Register of Reviews		na	na	Register of completed COVID-19 evidence reviews from around the world provided by UNCOVER (Usher Network for COVID-19 Evidence Reviews). 4,463 reviews 02/08/2021
WHO COVID-19 Database	Updated daily (Mon-Fri)	N	Searches of bibliographic databases, hand searching, and expert-referred scientific articles. Multiple search strategies under continual revision are used.	308,173 citations on COVID-19 02/08/2021. Search via new interface or all references are available to download into Excel or reference management software.
Other relevant databases
Global Health and CAB Abstracts	?	na	na	Public health database containing coronavirus collection (not open access).
GIDEON (Global Infectious Disease and Epidemiology Online Network)	?	na	na	Infectious diseases database via Ovid (not open access).
COVID-19 datasets
COVID-19 Open Research Dataset (CORD-19)	Updated daily	Y	"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” used to search PubMed PMC and bioRxiv and medRxiv pre-prints.	Free resource of over 280,000 scholarly articles, some with full text, about COVID-19 and the coronavirus family of viruses. From PubMed PMC, WHO, bioRxiv and medRxiv pre-prints.
COVID-19 Open Research Dataset Challenge (CORD-19)	13 July 2021	Y	As above	Datasets and notebooks for an AI challenge using the above dataset.
Rapid reviews
Cochrane COVID Rapid Reviews	na	na		9 completed rapid reviews, 1 in progress
Cochrane Effective Practice and Organisation of Care Group	na	na		9 Summaries of Cochrane Reviews from EPOC and other groups relevant to COVID-19.
ECRI COVID-19 Clinical Evidence Assessments	na	na		Collection of evidence assessments undertaken by Emergency Care Research Institute (ECRI) on clinical topics relating to COVID-19.
Living Evidence Repository for COVID-19	na	na		Preliminary reports and systematic reviews published by COVID-19 L·OVE group.
McMaster NCCMT COVID-19 Rapid Evidence Reviews	na	na		Collection of research questions for rapid evidence reviews currently in development with links to final reviews once complete.
National Institute for Health and Care Excellence (NICE)	na	na		Collection of COVID-19 rapid guidelines and rapid evidence summaries produced by NICE.
NIHR Applied Research Collaboration West	na	na		Collection of evidence reviews both in progress and complete, by teams of researchers from various research groups across England.
Oxford COVID-19 Evidence Service	na	na		Collection of rapid reviews in response to questions from GPs on COVID-19.
Public Health England Guide to Rapid Reviews	July 2021	na		Useful guide to sources of rapid reviews detailing content, search features and approach of each resource.
Public Health England Rapid Reviews	na	na		Completed and in progress rapid reviews by PHE COVID-19 Evidence Team.
UNCOVER (Usher Network for COVid-19 Evidence Reviews)	na	na		Rapid reviews completed in short time-scales by Usher Institute, University of Edinburgh.
Evidence briefings
COVID-I9 Alert – PHE Knowledge and Library Service	Daily	N		PHE Knowledge and Library Services produce a daily alert containing links to research and news on the latest coronavirus outbreak. Contains latest research articles and news from government departments. See under tab ‘Keeping up to date’. Email libraries@phe.gov.uk to be put on mailing list.
Epistemonikos Foundation COVID-19 Blog	26 June 2020	N		Evidence-based answers.
Evidence Aid Coronavirus evidence collection	26 July 2021	N		Plain language summaries of high quality research within the categories of diagnostics and epidemiology, health and social care systems and services, infection prevention and control, social consequences of pandemic and treatment.
Institute of Development Studies Health Evidence Summaries	10 May 2021	N		Daily summaries of COVID-19 research to support DFID and UK government response.
McMaster COVID-19 Evidence Alerts	Daily	N	Searches of MEDLINE	Daily alerts of articles from MEDLINE relating to COVID-19 clinical care, critically appraised and assessed for clinical relevance by researchers and clinicians from McMaster University.
Office for National Statistics COVID-19 roundup	Daily			Summary of insights into latest ONS data and analysis on COVID-19 and effects on society and economy. Sign-up available for daily email alerts.
PHE Behavioural Science Reference Cell Literature Report	30 July 2021	N		Weekly report of latest research on COVID-19 relating to behavioural science – see under tab ‘Keeping up to date’
PHE Literature Digest	30 July 2021	N		Digest of new COVID-19 evidence (articles, pre-prints etc.) published three times a week. Evidence organised into themes (Serology and immunology, diagnostics and genomics, epidemiology and clinical, infection control, treatment, and modelling). See under tab ‘Keeping up to date’
PHE Knowledge and Library Service Weekly Care Homes Evidence Digest	23 July 2021	N	Searches of Covid-19 review repositories, PHE Covid-19 evidence digest, Ovid Medline and Embase, Social Care Online, medRxiv and various websites.	Weekly digest of evidence on prevention and control of COVID-19 in home care/care home settings. See under tab ‘Keeping up to date’
The Strategy Unit	02 Oct 2020	Y	See individual summaries for sources searched. Search strategies can be viewed via the live search links. Searches are “pragmatic and specific rather than comprehensive and sensitive”.	Evidence summaries on covid-19 related topics (8 so far on care homes, lifting restrictions, rehab, screening and testing, broader impacts, impacts on non-covid services, prospective population studies, inequalities). Also includes live evidence searches for each topic and weekly alerting service for new evidence on each topic.
Auto-searches in other databases
Australian Library and Information Association	Live searches	Y	Search strategies appear in search box of PubMed once you run a search.	Automatic PubMed searches on various topics relating to COVID-19.
bioRxiv / med Rxiv preprints	17,926 hits 02/08/2021	N		COVID-19 SARS-CoV-2 preprints from medRxiv and bioRxiv (not peer reviewed).
CADTH COVID-19 search strings		Y	See website	Search strategies for use in PubMed, MEDLINE, Embase, LitCovid, and Scopus, developed by information specialists at the Canadian Agency for Drugs and Technologies in Healthcare (CADTH).
ClinicalTrials.gov	6,267 hits 02/08/2021	Y	"wuhan coronavirus" in condition field (automatically searches for these terms in addition: COVID, SARS-CoV-2, 2019 novel coronavirus, 2019-nCoV, severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2)
Elsevier – ScienceDirect	26,888 hits 02/08/2021	Y	Coronavirus OR "Corona virus" OR "2019-nCoV" OR "SADS-CoV" OR "SARS-CoV" OR "MERS-CoV" OR “Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome” OR “Middle East Respiratory Syndrome” (in title, abstract or author-specified keywords)	Options to further filter results. Free access to the most relevant research on COVID-19 and related viruses.
Elsevier - SSRN	10,397 hits 02/08/2021	N		Preprints (not peer-reviewed) articles on COVID-19. Free to download articles. See also SSRN Interdisciplinary Coronavirus and Infectious Disease Related Research – 6,823 hits 02/08/2021
Epistemonikos	185,845 hits 02/08/2021	Y	covid-19 OR sars-ncov OR coronavirus OR mers-cov	From GIDIF-RBM (the Italian Association of Health Librarian and Information Specialists)
EU Clinical Trials Register	572 hits 02/08/2021	Y	covid-19
MEDLINE (Ovid)/Journals@Ovid	163,566 hits 02/08/2021	N
Ovid Discovery	About 561,000 hits 02/08/2021	Y	(Coronavirus OR 2019-nCoV OR nCoV OR COVID-19)	Searches following resources: ClinicalTirals.gov DisasterLit DOAJ Journals@Ovid LWW Journals & Books Medknow Open Research Library PubMed Options for further filtering of results.
PROSPERO	Updated daily Human: 4,791 hits 02/08/2021 Animal: 14 hits 02/08/2021	Y	Human: (((coronavirus or corona-virus) AND (wuhan or beijing or shanghai or Italy or South-Korea or korea or China or Chinese or 2019-nCoV or nCoV or COVID-19 or Covid19 or SARS-CoV* or SARSCov2 or ncov)) OR (pneumonia AND Wuhan) or "COVID-19" or "2019-nCoV" or "SARS-CoV" or SARSCOV2 or 2019-nCov or "2019 coronavirus" or "2019 corona virus" or covid19 or ncov OR "novel corona virus" or "new corona virus" or "nouveau corona virus" or "2019 corona virus" OR "novel coronavirus" or "new coronavirus" or "nouveau coronavirus" or "2019 coronavirus" OR (MeSH DESCRIPTOR Coronavirus Infections EXPLODE ALL TREES) OR ((MeSH DESCRIPTOR Coronavirus EXPLODE ALL TREES) AND (wuhan or beijing or shanghai or Italy or South-Korea or korea or China or Chinese or 2019-nCoV or nCoV or COVID-19 or Covid19 or SARS-CoV* or SARSCov2 or ncov))) NOT Animal:DB Animal: (((coronavirus or corona-virus) AND (wuhan or beijing or shanghai or Italy or South-Korea or korea or China or Chinese or 2019-nCoV or nCoV or COVID-19 or Covid19 or SARS-CoV* or SARSCov2 or ncov)) OR (pneumonia AND Wuhan) or "COVID-19" or "2019-nCoV" or "SARS-CoV" or SARSCOV2 or 2019-nCov or "2019 coronavirus" or "2019 corona virus" or covid19 or ncov OR "novel corona virus" or "new corona virus" or "nouveau corona virus" or "2019 corona virus" OR "novel coronavirus" or "new coronavirus" or "nouveau coronavirus" or "2019 coronavirus" OR (MeSH DESCRIPTOR Coronavirus Infections EXPLODE ALL TREES) OR ((MeSH DESCRIPTOR Coronavirus EXPLODE ALL TREES) AND (wuhan or beijing or shanghai or Italy or South-Korea or korea or China or Chinese or 2019-nCoV or nCoV or COVID-19 or Covid19 or SARS-CoV* or SARSCov2 or ncov))) AND Animal:DB	Auto-searches for human or animal systematic review protocols relating to COVID-19. Additional filtering by topic area available. PROSPERO is fast tracking any registrations of systematic reviews relating to COVID-19.
PubMed	162,508 hits 02/08/2021	Y	2019-nCoV OR 2019nCoV OR COVID-19 OR SARS-CoV-2 OR ((wuhan AND coronavirus) AND 2019/12[PDAT]:2030[PDAT])	See: MESH supplementary concept of "severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2" (and mapped to heading Betacoronavirus) is also picked up by the following entry terms: 2019 novel coronavirus 2019-nCoV COVID-19 virus COVID19 virus SARS-CoV-2 SARS2 Wuhan coronavirus Wuhan seafood market pneumonia virus coronavirus disease 2019 virus
Social Care Online	1968 hits 02/08/2021	Y	Covid	COVID-19 research relating to social care and social work.
Scopus	98,902 hits 02/08/2021	Y	TITLE-ABS-KEY (“Wuhan coronavirus” OR “Wuhan seafood market pneumonia virus” OR “COVID19” OR “COVID-19” OR “COVID-2019*” OR “coronavirus disease 2019” OR “SARS-CoV-2” OR sars2 OR “2019-nCoV” OR “2019 novel coronavirus” OR “severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2” OR “2019 novel coronavirus infection” OR “coronavirus disease 2019” OR “coronavirus disease-19” OR “novel coronavirus” OR coronavirus OR “SARS-CoV-2019” OR “SARS-CoV-19”) AND (LIMIT-TO (PUBYEAR , 2020)) Advanced search > enter the above as a query string	From GIDIF-RBM (the Italian Association of Health Librarian and Information Specialists)
Trip	13,836 hits 02/08/2021	Y	covid-19 or "novel coronavirus"	Search string recommended in Trip blog
Web of Science Core collection www. webofknowledge.com	119,872 hits (Science Citation Index) 02/08/2021		TS=(“Wuhan coronavirus” OR “Wuhan seafood market pneumonia virus” OR “COVID19” OR “COVID-19” OR “COVID-2019*” OR “coronavirus disease 2019” OR “SARS-CoV-2” OR SARS2 OR “2019-nCoV” OR “2019 novel coronavirus” OR “severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2” OR “2019 novel coronavirus infection” OR “coronavirus disease 2019” OR “coronavirus disease-19” OR “novel coronavirus” OR coronavirus OR “SARS-CoV-2019” OR “SARS-CoV-19”) Advanced search > search in: Science Citation Index Expanded (SCI-EXPANDED) --1900-present > custom year range 2020-2021	GIDIF-RBM (the Italian Association of Health Librarian and Information Specialists) via this link
WHO International Clinical Trials Registry Platform	10,852 records 02/08/2021	N		All COVID-19 studies in the registry are available to download as csv or xml file.

Resource		Last updated	Notes
Journal / Publisher Collections
BMJ		daily	Research, news, editorials, opinion pieces from BMJ collections (including BMJ speciality journals) relating to COVID-19
BMJ Best Practice	COVID-19	22 July 2021
	Overview of coronaviruses	17 Aug 2020	Links to related sections on MERS, SARS
	Management of coexisting conditions in the context of COVID-19	22 July 2021
Cochrane Database of Systematic Reviews	COVID-19: critical care	29 June 2021	Cochrane reviews relevant to management of people hospitalized with severe acute respiratory infections. Updated on an ongoing basis.
	COVID-19: infection control and prevention measures	20 July 2021	Cochrane reviews relevant to prevention of infection. Updated on an ongoing basis.
	COVID-19: effective options for quitting smoking during the pandemic	08 June 2021	Cochrane reviews relevant to quitting smoking. Updated on an ongoing basis.
	COVID-19: regional anaesthesia to reduce drug use in anaesthesia and avoid aerosol generation	05 Jan 2021	Cochrane reviews relevant to regional anaesthesia. Updated on an ongoing basis.
	COVID-19: remote care through telehealth	29 July 2021	Cochrane reviews relevant to telehealth. Updated on an ongoing basis.
	COVID-19: optimizing health in the home workspace	08 June 2021	Cochrane reviews relevant to maintaining health and wellbeing when working from home due to the COVID-19 pandemic. Updated on an ongoing basis.
	COVID-19: support for wellbeing in the healthcare workforce	05 Jan 2021	Cochrane reviews on interventions that may help support the wellbeing of the healthcare workforce and reduce occupational stress. Updated on an ongoing basis.
	COVID-19: evidence relevant to clinical rehabilitation	06 Jan 2021	Cochrane reviews relating to rehabilitation interventions for people recovering from COVID-19 with acute respiratory distress syndrome (ARDS) and pulmonary restrictive syndrome, post-intensive care syndrome (PICS), post-extubation swallowing disorders, multiple organ failure and shock, PTSD.
	Cochrane COVID reviews	28 July 2021	Cochrane reviews (completed and in progress) relating to COVID-19.
EBSCO			COVID-19 Information Portal from EBSCO.
Elsevier		14 July 2021	Guidance and clinical information, access to research articles in Elsevier journals. Some information from China, including some in Chinese, from sources including the Chinese Center for Disease Control and Prevention. Also includes official guidance from a number of countries.
Emerald Publishing		?	Expert briefings, journal articles, book chapters, relating to Coronaviruses and epidemics more broadly. The scope of research topics range from areas such as legal and ethical lessons from SARS in 2003, to public health approaches to global issues, and impacts of SARS on tourism.
JAMA Network		30 July 2021
Joanna Briggs Institute		?	Free access to collections of systematic reviews by JBI relevant to challenges of COVID-19 pandemic.
The Lancet		16 July 2021	Lancet content on COVID-19.
Mary Ann Liebert		01 Dec 2020	Several free articles on coronaviruses from journal Health Security.
The New England Journal of Medicine		28 July 2021
Oxford Academic Journals		02 August 2021	OUP journal articles, book chapters on coronavirus and related topics
SAGE		10 July 2021	Medical, social, and behavioural science articles from SAGE Publishing relating to COVID-19
Springer Nature		?
Transactions of the Royal Society of Tropical Medicine & Hygiene		?	6 articles relating to outbreak of coronavirus. New articles to be added in future.
Wiley		30 July 2021
Wolters Kluwer		?
UpToDate	Coronaviruses	11 June 2020	Literature review on Coronaviruses.
	Covid-19	15 July 2021	Literature review on COVID-19.
	Other COVID-19 resources	?	Free access to further clinical effectiveness COVID-19 resources from UpToDate.
Publication lists
Addiction		8 Nov 2020	Downloadable bibliography of COVID-19 articles relating to addiction compiled by Addiction journal. Updated weekly.
Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC)		26 July 2021	CDC COVID-19 Science Updates – produced twice a week containing brief summaries of new COVID-19-related studies
Geneva Centre of Humanitarian Studies COVID-19 Scientific Resources		08 May 2020	Provided by the Geneva Centre of Humanitarian studies, the University of Geneva and the Graduate Institute of International and Development Studies (IHEID). Aims to inform governments, humanitarian organisations and media representatives on the latest evidence on the COVID-19 virus. Publications listed according to date.
Epidemiology
Centers for Disease Control and Prevention		27 July 2021
China Center for Disease Control and Prevention: Tracking the Epidemic		02 August 2021	Numbers of cases and deaths. (English)
CIDRAP – Center for Infectious Disease Research and Policy		27 July 2021	Bibliography, recent news, online resources on Covid-19
European Centre for Disease Prevention and Control		30 July 2021
HealthMap		continuous	Real-time surveillance of emerging public health threats. Click on settings to change location. List view shows more details of each alert in a given location.
Imperial College London COVID-19 Response Team		na	All output from the Imperial College COVID-19 Response Team, including publicly published online reports, planning tools, scientific resources, publications and video updates.
John Hopkins University CSSE		continuous	Real-time visualisation and tracking of reported cases of 2019-nCoV. Related blog post
The New Humanitarian		23 July 2021	Article tracking the global response to coronavirus outbreak.
Office for National Statistics (UK)		16 July 2021	Latest datasets, articles and compendiums relating to COVID-19
ProMED	ProMED Coronavirus	02 August 2021	Global reporting of COVID-19
worldometer		02 August 2021	Estimated current numbers based on statistics and projections from official organizations including the UN Population Division, World Health Organization (WHO), Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO), International Monetary Fund (IMF), and World Bank.
Guidelines - compilations
COVID19 Recommendations			A living catalogue of COVID-19 clinical, public health and health policy guidelines from key organisations around the world. Aimed at decision-makers looking to identify relevant recommendations for their question of interest.
Database of public health guidance on COVID-19		29 July 2021	Collection of UK and international public health guidelines compiled by HTA team at the Health Information and Quality Authority, Ireland.
ECRI COVID-19 Clinical Guidelines		Jan 2021	Guidelines from nationally and internationally recognized medical organizations and medical specialty societies, evaluated by the ECRI Guidelines Trust team.
UptoDate			Compilation of links to international and government-sponsored guidelines from several countries and regions around the world.
Guidelines – additional (not referenced in guideline compilations above)
Australian Medical Association		28 Feb 2020
Center for the Study of Traumatic Stress		?	Factsheets/guidance on wellbeing of people during coronavirus outbreak.
Compass		?	Regularly updated social and behaviour change tools and resources on COVID-19.
Evidence aid – guidelines on Novel Coronavirus	Chinese guidelines	27 March 2021	Compiled by Lanzhou University.
	Italian guidelines	05 March 2020	Compiled by Cochrane Drugs and Alcohol Group Italy.
	Japanese guidelines	26 July 2021	Compiled by Bukkyo University.
Health Protection Scotland		16 July 2021	Information and guidance on COVID-19 for Scotland.
Japanese Ministry of Health, Labour and Welfare		12 July 2021	Website available in English. Information and guidance on COVID-19 from Japan.
Joanna Briggs Institute		?	JBI evidence summaries on infection prevention and control relating to COVID-19.
Korean (South) Ministry of Health		02 August 2021	Some guidance information in English on COVID-19.
New Zealand Ministry of Health		04 June 2021	Factsheets and guidance for health professionals on COVID-19.
Nigeria Centre for Disease Control		02 August 2021
The Transplantation Society		08 June 2020	Guidance on Coronavirus disease 2019 for transplant clinicians.
Background/Additional sources
5Minute Consult		April 2021	Summary info on 2019 Novel Coronavirus (2019-nCoV).
ALNAP		13 Jan 2021	ALNAP is a network of humanitarian organisations. Their COVID 19 Response Portal contains guidelines, tools, papers and lessons learnt.
Campaign for Social Sciences COVID-19 hub		28 June 2021	Social science research and policy hub. Includes links to COVID-19 resources from universities, research institutions, think-tanks and learned societies.
Canadian Agency for Drugs and Technologies in Health (CADTH)	Covid site	17 June 2021	Research related to COVID-19 from CADTH and other organizations.
	Grey literature sources	23 April 2021	Curated list of freely available evidence-based sources of grey literature for health professionals, librarians and researchers. Prioritizes Canadian resources and high quality rapid knowledge syntheses. List also available to download as a report in Word.
Centers for Disease Control and Prevention		Daily	Main CDC website for COVID-19.
COVID-END guide to resources			Provided by the COVID-19 Evidence Network to support Decision-making (COVID-END) with resources to support decision-makers, resources for researchers, and an inventory of best evidence syntheses.
EBSCO Dynamed		28 July 2021	Evidence-based content on COVID-19 for practicing clinicians.
Economics Observatory		?	Database of planned, ongoing and completed research by economists on the impact of the COVID-19 crisis on families, workers, firms, and society. Filtering of results by topic and country available.
Evidence Synthesis Ireland		26 Mar 2020	COVID-19 Evidence Synthesis Resources
Global Health Network		?	COVID-19 research implementation and knowledge hub to help research teams find support, tools, resources and guidance to aid their studies.
The Health Foundation		July 2021	Health Foundation COVID-19 content - blogs, reports, briefings, charts. Includes COVID-19 policy tracker - description and timeline of national policy and health system responses to COVID-19 in England, and COVID-19 chart series exploring the various impacts of the pandemic.
HESG COVID study database		?	UK Health Economists’ Study Group has set up a database of studies relating to COVID-19 to support research prioritisation.
International Severe Acute Respiratory and emerging Infection Consortium (ISARIC)		?	ISARIC provides a collaborative platform through which global, patient‐oriented clinical studies can be developed, executed and shared.
John Hopkins Center for Health Security		30 July 2021	Covid-19 resources for public health, clinical, and public policy practitioners.
Lippincott Nursing Center		20 May 2021	Summary information for nurses
London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine		?	News, events, publications, videos etc. from LSHTM on COVID-19
LTCcovid		26 July 2021	Reports, summaries of evidence, policy and practice measures relating to the impact of COVID-19 on long-term care. UK and international.
MEDBOX rapid response toolbox		?	Collection of the most important guidelines and resources, situation reports, communication tools, laboratory guidance, etc., including documents important for Infection & Prevention Control IPC, risk communication or Prevention & Preparedness.
Microsoft Academic		16 March 2020	Explains services from Microsoft Academic relating to COVID-19, including COVID-19 Open Research Dataset (CORD-19) – see above under COVID-19 datasets.
NCBI Insights		?	Genome information
NIHR Urgent Public Health COVID-19 studies			COVID-19 studies in progress across the UK
Nuffield Foundation		22 July 2021	Current ongoing social policy research projects relating to COVID-19 funded by Nuffield Foundation
PHE Daily Status Updates		Daily	Daily status updates on number of UK cases
Prevent Epidemics		23 July 2021	Website by Resolve to Save Lives providing country-level data on epidemic preparedness.
Scientific Advisory Group for Emergencies (SAGE)		23 July 2021	Scientific evidence supporting the UK government response to COVID-19.
UK Collaborative Centre for Housing Evidence		24 June 2020	Blogs, briefing papers and webinars on issues in housing relating to the current pandemic.
WHO	Novel-coronavirus-2019	02 August 2021	Main WHO website for coronavirus disease (COVID-19) outbreak.
WHO	Health topic: coronavirus	28 July 2021	Main WHO website for coronaviruses.