LibGuides: COVID-19, Health & General Clinical Information: Home

About this Guide

This guide is designed to share relevant, and informative, community-driven resources on COVID-19 from local, national, and global communities. This guide is dynamic, in that sources are updated to reflect information that may impact the timeliness of your research and projects as students. Rather than considering this guide as a comprehensive and exhaustive resource, please consider this guide as an abridged resource for general information on the clinical, educational and research sources covering the Coronavirus pandemic, caused by SARS-CoV-2.

MDC Database Sources

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Academic Search Complete (EBSCO)
Academic Search Complete, designed specifically for academic institutions, is the world's most valuable and comprehensive scholarly, multi-disciplinary full-text database, with more than 5,300 full-text periodicals, including 4,400 peer-reviewed journals. In addition to full text, this database offers indexing and abstracts for more than 9,300 journals and a total of 10,900 publications including monographs, reports, conference proceedings, etc. The database features PDF content going back as far as 1865, with the majority of full text titles in native (searchable) PDF format.

Funded by: Statewide Allocation
SIRS Researcher
(SIRS) - Integrated online access to full-text articles and Internet resources from SIRS reference databases - SIRS Researcher, SIRS Government Reporter, SIRS Renaissance and SIRS NetSelect.

Funded by: College (FLVC Group License)

PubMed (National Library of Medicine)
(National Library of Medicine) - PubMed was developed by the National Center for Biotechnology Information (NCBI). It was developed in conjunction with publishers of biomedical literature as a search tool for accessing literature citations and linking to full-text journals at web sites of participating publishers.

Funded by: Other
MEDLINE with Full Text (EBSCO)
(EBSCO) - Full text for nearly 1,200 journals with coverage dating back to 1965. Authoritative medical information on medicine, nursing, dentistry, veterinary medicine, health care system, and much more. Created by the National Library of Medicine. Search abstracts from over 4,000 current biomedical journals.

Funded by: Statewide Allocation
Health and Medicine (Gale OneFile) (Gale)
(Gale) - An advanced interface to the full-text nursing and allied health journals found in the Health & Wellness Resource Center. Does not include reference sources or the Alternative Health suite of resources.

Funded by: State Library of Florida
Health and Nursing (EBSCO)
(EBSCO) - This is the definitive research tool for nursing and allied health professionals. With CINAHL Complete, users get fast and easy full-text access to top journals, evidence-based care sheets, quick lessons, and more.

Funded by: Statewide Allocation
Nursing Full - Text Journals (Ovid)
(OVID) - Ovid’s nursing offerings span traditional specialty areas like pain management, maternity care, surgical nursing, nursing management, and evidence-based nursing. They include clinically-relevant tools in diagnosis and care procedures, practitioner journals, references for nurse education and CME, resources for nursing administrators, and foundational research literature.

Funded by: College

Health and Wellness (Gale)
(Gale) - Easy-to-use interface with access to full-text nursing and allied health journals, encyclopedias and other reference sources, as well as informational pamphlets. Also includes the Alternative Health suite of resources.

Funded by: State Library of Florida

General Science Full Text (EBSCO)
(H.W. Wilson) - Periodical coverage includes 242 popular science magazines as well as professional journals. General Science Full Text also covers The New York Times Science Section (published weekly on Tuesday).

Funded by: College (FLVC Group License)
Science (AAAS.org)
Founded in 1880 on $10,000 of seed money from the American inventor Thomas Edison, Science has grown to become the world's leading outlet for scientific news, commentary, and cutting-edge research, with the largest paid circulation of any peer-reviewed, general-science journal. Through its print and online incarnations, Science reaches an estimated worldwide readership of more than one million. In content, too, the journal is truly international in scope; some 35 to 40 percent of the corresponding authors on its papers are based outside the United States. Its articles consistently rank among world's most cited research.

Funded by: College (FLVC Group License)
Science Education Basic Biology (JoVE)
Basic Biology videos, including: General Laboratory Techniques, Basic Methods in Cellular and Molecular Biology, Essentials of Biology 1: yeast, Drosophila and C. elegans, and Essentials of Biology 2: Mouse, Zebrafish, and Chick.

Funded by: College

Opposing Viewpoints (Gale in Context) (Gale)
(Gale) - online experience for those seeking contextual information and opinions on hundreds of today's hottest social issues. Drawing on the acclaimed Greenhaven Press series, the new solution features continuously updated viewpoint articles, topic overviews, full-text magazines, academic journals, news articles, primary source documents, statistics, images, videos, audio files, and links to vetted websites organized into a user-friendly portal experience.

Funded by: Statewide Allocation
SIRS Researcher
(SIRS) - Integrated online access to full-text articles and Internet resources from SIRS reference databases - SIRS Researcher, SIRS Government Reporter, SIRS Renaissance and SIRS NetSelect.

Funded by: College (FLVC Group License)

New York Times - Current (Gale)
Provides national and international news, opinion and commentary; published in a national and a New York metropolitan edition. Includes local & state news, science, sports, arts & entertainment, and business & finance news. Covers January 1, 1985 - Current.

Funded by: State Library of Florida
America's News (NewsBank)
(NewsBank) - More than 4,000 media sources including the new FIND A TOPIC search page function. Find current, diverse perspectives on topics related to controversial issues, the environment, health, education, science, the arts, literature, business, economics, criminal justice, and more from a variety of current and retrospective news media including newspapers, newswires, broadcast transcripts, blogs, periodicals, videos, and web-only content.

Funded by: Statewide Allocation
Miami Herald (NewsBank)
(NewsBank) - Explore Miami history through local news, events, and people with the Miami Herald Collection. Search current and archived issues with full-color newspaper pages, full-text articles, and content only published online.

Funded by: Statewide Allocation

EBook Source

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Coronavirus by The Centers The Centers for Disease Control's Website
Call Number: EBook
ISBN: 9781952438981
Publication Date: 2020-03-19
The novel coronavirus that causes COVID-19 is now officially a global pandemic. Its path is exponential, and panic is being felt around the globe. But the most important thing you can do to combat the virus is to understand how it works, how it spreads, and to STAY INFORMED.

Organizations

Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, CDC
Coronavirus (COVID-19) Homepage
National Institute of Health, NIH
Coronavirus (COVID-19) Homepage
Department of Health and Human Services, HHS
Coronavirus (COVID-19) Homepage
Florida Department of Health,
COVID-19 in Florida
World Health Organization, WHO
Coronavirus disease (COVID-19) pandemic Homepage

Scholarly Resources

Medline Plus: Health Topics
US National Library of Medicine

PubMed (National Library of Medicine)
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Johns Hopkins University: Map of COVID-19 Cases within the United States
Cases are indicated by County.
Harvard Health: Coronavirus Resource Center
From Harvard Health Publishing, under Harvard Medical School.