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COVID-19 as a Research Topic
This guide provides information on how and where to research COVID-19 (Coronavirus) as a topic for an assignment.
Where to find information and sources to research Coronavirus for assignments
Research starters
Collections of information that will help you understand the big picture of the current situation and narrow your research to a specific topic related to Coronavirus.
- Coronavirus: COVID-19 Topic PageFrom Gale Student Resources in Context. RVCC login required. An overview and wide variety of sources from magazines, news & radio, academic journals, videos & images.
- Johns Hopkins Coronavirus Resource CenterA collection of data and news curated by Johns Hopkins experts in global public health, infectious disease, and emergency preparedness. This resource is to help advance the understanding of the virus, inform the public, and brief policymakers in order to guide a response, improve care, and save lives.
- AccessMedicine COVID-19 CentralPrimarily scientific and medical information. This resource page from McGraw-Hill is for professionals, students and others. It publishes original posts from experts at McGraw-Hill and content sourced from the CDC.
- World Health Organization: Coronavirus DataFrequently updated data on cases and deaths worldwide
Information for general audiences
Information from reliable sources that are intended for the general public. These resources focus mainly on issues that are of general interest, like prevention, symptoms to look for, how to seek treatment, etc.
- CDC: COVID-19Information for the general public from the CDC. Links to some statistical data.
- World Health Organization: Coronavirus Disease (COVID-19)From a global perspective, information for the general public including prevention and symptoms.
- New York Times: The COVID-19 PandemicCurated news articles about the outbreak from The New York Times. RVCC users can create a nytimes.com account at https://library.raritanval.edu/NYTimes
- EBSCO COVID-19 Information PortalNews, maps, visualizations, and other resources
Scholarly articles
Due to the medical and scientific nature of this topic, and how recent the issue is, scholarly articles may be highly technical and written at an expert level. Select articles that are understandable to you so you can accurately summarize or paraphrase them in your assignment.
- COVID-19 in America: Response, Issues and Law This link opens in a new windowCompiling together publications on the various ways COVID-19 has impacted every aspect of life, from testing issues, to stimulus payments, to the quest for a vaccine, this database organizes its content into the following areas of impact:
- JAMA Network COVID-19 CollectionArticles from JAMA publications, including past articles related to vaccine development, infection control, and public health preparedness. Pay attention to article publication dates.
- LitCovid (NIH NLM)For finding scholarly articles, this curated article hub tracks up-to-date scientific information about the 2019 novel Coronavirus. Maintained by the National Library of Medicine.
- New England Journal of Medicine: Coronovirus (COVID-19)A collection of articles and other resources on the Coronavirus (Covid-19) outbreak, including clinical reports, management guidelines, and commentary.
- Proquest Coronavirus Research Databasea collection of journal articles, preprints, conference proceedings, dissertations and more related to COVID-19 and other coronaviruses. It includes comprehensive research background coverage of past pandemics and epidemics, like MERS and SARS, to give researchers and students context around the current global crisis.
- Wiley Online Library's Covid-19: Novel Coronavirus OutbreakCoronavirus resources and news from Wiley publications.