
COVID-19 Databases and Journals
Updated September 2, 2020
Below are selected databases and journals to help researchers find scholarly articles about COVID-19 (2019 Novel Coronavirus).
- Research articles downloadable database
- The CDC Database of COVID-19 Research Articles is now a part of the WHO COVID-19 databaseexternal icon. Our search results are now being sent to the WHO COVID-19 Databaseexternal icon to make it easier for them to be searched, downloaded, and used by researchers worldwide.
- The last version of the CDC COVID-19 database will be archived and remain available on this website. Please note that it has stopped updating as of October 9, 2020 and all new articles are now being integrated into the WHO COVID-19 databaseexternal icon.
- New: COVID-19 Science Updates
- To help inform CDC’s COVID-19 Response, as well as to help CDC staff stay up to date on the latest COVID-19 research, the Response’s Office of the Chief Medical Officer has collaborated with the CDC Office of Library Science to create a series called COVID-19 Science Update. This series, the first of its kind for a CDC emergency response, provides brief summaries of new COVID-19-related studies on many topics, including epidemiology, clinical treatment and management, laboratory science, and modeling. These summaries are released every Tuesday and Friday.
Some databases and journals are accessible only to those with a CDC user id and password. Find a library near you that may be able to help you access similar resources by clicking the following links: https://www.worldcat.org/libraries external icon OR https://www.usa.gov/librariesexternal icon .
Materials listed in these guides are selected to provide awareness of quality public health literature and resources. A material’s inclusion does not necessarily represent the views of the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS), the Public Health Service (PHS), or the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), nor does it imply endorsement of the material’s methods or findings.
- Research articles downloadable database
- The CDC Database of COVID-19 Research Articles is now a part of the WHO COVID-19 databaseexternal icon. Our search results are now being sent to the WHO COVID-19 Databaseexternal icon to make it easier for them to be searched, downloaded, and used by researchers worldwide.
- The last version of the CDC COVID-19 database will be archived and remain available on this website. Please note that it has stopped updating as of October 9, 2020 and all new articles are now being integrated into the WHO COVID-19 databaseexternal icon.
Open Access Databases:
- DisasterLitexternal icon
- ClinicalTrialsexternal icon
- COVID-Evidenceexternal icon: Compilation of clinical trials on COVID-19
- Europe PMCexternal icon
- NCBI Virus’ COVID-2019 data hubexternal icon
- PubMedexternal icon
- LitCovidexternal icon
- This database is compiled by the National Library of Medicine from COVID-19 articles in PubMed. It is available for download.
- LitCovidexternal icon
- iSearch COVID-19 Portfolioexternal icon
- NIH’s comprehensive, expert-curated source for publications and preprints related to either COVID-19 or the novel coronavirus SARS-CoV-2.
- WHO COVID-19 research article databaseexternal icon
- This database is compiled by the WHO and searches multiple databases. It is available for download.
- Public Health Genomics and Precision Health Knowledge Base
- This database provides up to date genomics and precision health information on coronavirus disease.
Databases that require a CDC login to access:
- Ovid databases
- Cochrane Libraryexternal icon
- COVID-19 Open Research Datasetexternal icon
- Open dataset on more than 45,000 articles related to coronaviruses intended for use for researchers using natural language processing. Includes more than 33,000 full text articles on coronaviruses, including COVID-19.
- Science Directexternal icon
- Scopusexternal icon
- Clarivate Analytics COVID-19 special collectionexternal icon
- CINAHLexternal icon
- CDC Red Sky
Center for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) affiliated journals (all are Open Access):
- Emerging Infectious Diseases
- Morbidity or Mortality Weekly Report
- COVID-19 collection: https://www.cdc.gov/mmwr/Novel_Coronavirus_Reports.html
- Preventing Chronic Disease
Other journals (most have made COVID-19 articles Open Access, or free of charge, while the pandemic is ongoing):
- British Medical Journal
- COVID-19 collection: https://www.bmj.com/coronavirus external icon
- China CDC Weekly external icon
- Copyright Clearance Center Listexternal icon
- Copyright Clearance Center is compiling a list of publishers that are providing articles, books, trainings, and other resources for free
- Eurosurveillanceexternal icon
- COVID-19 collection: https://www.eurosurveillance.org/content/2019-ncov external icon
- Journal of the American Medical Associationexternal icon
- COVID-19 collection: https://jamanetwork.com/journals/jama/pages/coronavirus-alertexternal icon
- Journal of Visualized Experiments (JoVE)external icon
- COVID-19 collection: https://info2.jove.com/coronavirusvideoexternal icon
- Nature
- The New England Journal of Medicine
- COVID-19 collection: https://www.nejm.org/coronavirusexternal icon
- Lancet
- COVID-19 collection: https://www.thelancet.com/coronavirusexternal icon
- Scienceexternal icon
- COVID-19 collection: https://www.sciencemag.org/collections/coronavirusexternal icon
- Retraction Watchexternal icon
- COVID-19 collection: https://retractionwatch.com/retracted-coronavirus-covid-19-papers/external icon