Free online databases on Coronavirus research

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A number of online databases, publishers, and libraries have opened their resources on Coronavirus research for free. COVID-19 is an ongoing global crisis. Publishers have opted to make their resources free for a temporary period to aid researchers and health workers in the fight against the virus. Usually, these databases need paid access, but the information is currently free as it is vital at this time.

This post will be constantly updated as I see more resources.

Cambridge University Press: https://www.cambridge.org/core/browse-subjects/medicine/coronavirus-free-access-collection

Coronavirus Free Access Collection

Cochrane Library: https://www.cochranelibrary.com/collections/doi/SC000039/full

"This Special Collection has been created in response to the COVID-19 pandemic, and is regularly updated. It aims to ensure immediate access to systematic reviews most directly relevant to the management of people hospitalized with severe acute respiratory infections."

Elsevier: https://www.elsevier.com/connect/coronavirus-information-center

"Here you will find expert, curated information for the research and health community on SARS-CoV-2 (the novel coronavirus) and COVID-19 (the disease). All resources are free to access and include guidelines for clinicians and patients."

Emerald Publishing: https://www.emeraldgrouppublishing.com/promo/coronavirus.htm

"While these materials do not only relate to the current clinical challenges of COVID-19, they may provide relevant context to how the world reacted to other previous Coronavirus outbreaks, notably SARS. In addition, this content explores the wider impact on society and includes research on healthcare, education, homeworking, SCM and tourism."

Journal of the American Medical Association (JAMA) Network: https://jamanetwork.com/journals/jama/pages/coronavirus-alert

"Browse the JAMA Network COVID-19 collection, 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."

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 of our COVID-19 content is free to access."

The New England Journal of Medicine: https://www.nejm.org/coronavirus

"A collection of articles and other resources on the Coronavirus (Covid-19) outbreak, including clinical reports, management guidelines, and commentary."

Oxford University Press: https://academic.oup.com/journals/pages/coronavirus?cc=us&lang=en&

"As part of our response to the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic across the world, Oxford University Press has made content from online resources and leading journals freely accessible to assist researchers, medical professionals, policymakers, and others who are working to address this health crisis."

Project MUSE: https://about.muse.jhu.edu/resources/freeresourcescovid19

"In response to the challenges created by the global public health crisis of COVID-19, Project MUSE is pleased to support its participating publishers in making scholarly content temporarily available for free on our platform."

PubMed Central: https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/
"PubMed Central® (PMC) is a free full-text archive of biomedical and life sciences journal literature at the U.S. National Institutes of Health's National Library of Medicine (NIH/NLM)."

SAGE Publications: https://journals.sagepub.com/coronavirus
"This collection includes the latest medical research from SAGE related to the virus as well as top social and behavioral research to help individuals, communities, and leaders make the best decisions on dealing with the outbreak and its consequences."

Social Science Research Network: https://www.ssrn.com/index.cfm/en/coronavirus/
"SSRN’s Coronavirus and Infectious Disease Research page provides a curated view into the early-stage research to help researchers, public health authorities, clinicians and the public understand, contain and manage this disease."

Springer Nature: https://www.springernature.com/gp/researchers/campaigns/coronavirus

"As a leading research publisher, Springer Nature is committed to supporting the global response to emerging outbreaks by enabling fast and direct access to the latest available research, evidence, and data."

Taylor & Francis: https://taylorandfrancis.com/coronavirus
"As a leading publisher of trusted science, technology, medicine, humanities, and social sciences research, Taylor & Francis is committed to helping public health authorities, researchers, clinicians, and the general public contain and manage the spread of COVID-19."

Wiley Online Library: https://novel-coronavirus.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/

"As a publisher of trusted health science, we’ve made the relevant research articles, book chapters and entries in our major references freely available below, in support of the global efforts in diagnosis, treatment, prevention and further research in this disease and similar viral respiratory infections."

World Health Organization: https://www.who.int/emergencies/diseases/novel-coronavirus-2019/global-research-on-novel-coronavirus-2019-ncov

"Global research on coronavirus disease (COVID-19): WHO is gathering the latest scientific findings and knowledge on coronavirus disease (COVID-19) and compiling it in a database. We update the database daily from searches of bibliographic databases, hand searches of the table of contents of relevant journals, and the addition of other relevant scientific articles that come to our attention. The entries in the database may not be exhaustive and new research will be added regularly."