COVID-19 key resources
Introduction
There are so many COVID-19 resources that it can be overwhelming. This page just has some core resources for busy clinicians, along with reasons they might be useful. Always consult your affiliated health service or government department first. Feedback & suggestions are welcome. Tip - right click on a link to open in a new tab.
SUMMARIES
| Resource | Why use? |
| DynaMed, UpToDate and BMJ Best Practice | Clinically aligned overviews
Easily go to relevant area of interest (e.g. prognosis) Update tab (DynaMed) or button (Best Practice) shows recent changes to guidance |
| Guidelines | Extensive listing of guidelines by specialty and country |
| Oxford Rapid Reviews | Reviews of various Covid topics, updated regularly |
| National Evidence Taskforce | Australian Living guidelines and decision flowcharts |
TRENDING
| Resource | Why use? |
| Covid-19 Primer | Provides trending papers, terms, topics etc
Scroll down past the pink graph to view these Daily briefing available |
| Faculty of 1000 | Articles recommended (and why) can be viewed |
| ResearchGate | Use Most Read and Most Recommended tabs
No login required |
AHEAD OF PRINT
| Resource | Why use? |
| MedRxiv / BioRxiv / SSRN | Provides trending papers, terms, topics etc
Scroll down past the pink graph to view these Daily briefing available NOTE - not peer reviewed |
| PrePrint Google Search | Search multiple ahead of print resources at once with Google |
| OutbreakScience | Reviews of preprint articles
NOTE - ORCID login required |
CLINICAL TRIALS
| Resource | Why use? |
| Directory of sites providing trials information | |
| View left panel for interventions with information
NOTE - experimental service |
SEARCHING
| Resource | Why use? |
| WHO Global Literature | Covid specific collection with many useful limits (left hand panel)
Simple search syntax (e.g. ti:PCR AND ti:diagnos*) Includes articles not found in PubMed |
| Filter to specific topics (e.g. Treatment) by using the menu at the topic of the page
RSS alerts possible | |
| One click PubMed searches on 35+ topics
Create alerts for these topics Use the base Covid-19 search as a starting point for your own searches |
MORE
| Resource | Why use? |
| Coviz | Visualization of relationships |
| Research Data | Extensive collection of data sources
Use left hand panel to navigate |
| Semantic Scholar | Can create intelligent alert by voting on papers (More like this etc) |
| Technology Resources for COVID-19 | Directory of software and online platforms |
| Lens | As well as articles, it is strong on patents which can hold useful information not available elsewhere |
| Scite | AI used to suggest whether a citing article is supportive or contradicting
Quickly view the text in the paper where the article was cited for context NOTE - Chrome browser extension |
| Sinequa search | Watch short video |
