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This blog is created to raise awareness about the importance and value of libraries among the people of our country, special importance is given to exhibit contribution of health science librarians in health and social care within institutions and in nation building.
The health science librarians provide information resources to support health care. They encourage widespread use of health information among doctors, medical students, nurses, physiotherapists, dietitians, social workers and researchers.
The technological advancement has enabled libraries to move beyond the four walls of a building, as a result, we, the librarians strive to meet the health information needs of a larger community and try to amend health information delivery at every region, so that people live better, healthier, happier and more productive lives.

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COVID-19

Corona virus updates


Databases

WHO database - Global research on coronavirus disease is HERE -Scientific findings and knowledge

MoHFW- Novel Corona Virus

National Digital Library of India: NDLI COVID-19 Research Resources Repository

COVID-19 SARS-CoV-2 preprints from medRxiv and bioRxiv


National Library of Medicine on Coronavirus Disease and more is HERE

BMJ Access to all COVID-19 resources is HERE

National Institute of Care and Excellence  NICE -Rapid guidelines and evidence summaries on COVID-19

British Library collection on Covid-19

Nature resources on Covid-19 is here

The Lancet resources on Covid-19 is here

Taylor and Francis on Covid

SAGE on Covid-19 is here

Wiley Online Library on Covid-19 is here

Springer on Covid-19 is here

PLOS Covid-19 resources

Jama Network resources on Coronavirus

Cambridge University Press

Cochrane Library

Oxford University Press on Covid - 19 is here

Indian Council of Medical Research

All India Institute of Medical Sciences

Elsevier- SSRN- an open-access online pre-print community providing valuable services to academic schools and government institutions.
SSRN preprint papers on early stage research on Coronavirus is HERE

Wolter Kluwer Weekly Briefing: Early Symptom Analysis, New CPR Guidelines, More

Ebsco COVID-19 Resources 

Ebsco Covid-19 Information: their OA initiative

DynaMed on novel Coronavirus : Direct access to point of care content for clinicians

COVID-19 Resources & Tools Wolter Kluwer

Covid-19 Resources for frontline clinicians and medical researchers Wolter Kluwer

Search Results on  Coronavirus from Google Scholar

Search Results on Coronavirus from PubMed database

COVID-19 open research dataset (CORD) from Semantic Scholar a free, nonprofit, academic search engine from the Allen Institute for AI.

Google datasets search for Coronavirus

FAIRsharing.org standards, databases and policies is a  curated, informative and educational resource on data and metadata standards, inter-related to databases and data policies.

MIT- Over 24,000 coronavirus research papers are now available in one place

CORE: Worlds's largest collection of open access research papers

Clinical Trials on Coronavirus. Visit HERE

From Live science: 20 of the worst epidemics and pandemics in history

History
Visualizing the History of Pandemics

Articles for understanding Pandemics and Epidemiology by MIT press blog

Coronavirus latest by Nature  Coronavirus hospitalisations occur at any age, says US CDC         
COVID-19: Response from the Information Community by NISO

COVID Genome-NLM GenBank
Severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 isolate Wuhan-Hu-1, complete genome

The New England Journal of Medicine, March 19, 2020 on COVID and more

HIFA discussions on Coronavirus

COVID-19 Update and Online Learning Opportunities by WebJunction OCLC for libraries

Libraries and the Coronavirus: Evolving Information and Resources by WebJunction OCLC for libraries

ALA task force on SDGs: Libraries helping Communities

IFLA on COVID-19 and the Global Library Field

Protocols.io has set up Coronavirus Method Development Community to help import protocols into the COVID-19 group.

LitCovid, a curated literature hub for tracking up-to-date scientific information about the 2019 novel Coronavirus by NIH

Corona Virus Diseases by CDC, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, United States

Research data and findings relevant to the novel coronavirus, Wellcome trust, Press Release


Quarantine: How to prepare for possible coronavirus infection from CNN

Government of Canada on SARS is HERE

Coronavirus pandemic | India may see up to 13 lakh cases of COVID-19 by mid-May, warn scientists 

Research Data Alliance Working group on Covid-19. Details are HERE

Documentary film on novel corona virus- The lockdown-one month in Wuhan

Disease Insights: Coronaviruses - a report by Clarivate Analytics

Situation of COVID in India and link to more related resources by Indian Academy of Sciences, Bangalore is HERE

Harvard Business Review on Coronavirus

John Hopkins Medicine on Coronavirus information and updates is HERE


https://youtu.be/mOV1aBVYKGA

Nucleotide records, clinical trials and lot more on NCBI SARS-COV-2. Check HERE

Doremalen, Neeltje van, Trenton Bushmaker, Dylan H. Morris, Myndi G. Holbrook, Amandine Gamble, Brandi N. Williamson, Azaibi Tamin, et al. “Aerosol and Surface Stability of SARS-CoV-2 as Compared with SARS-CoV-1.” New England Journal of Medicine, March 17, 2020. https://doi.org/10.1056/NEJMc2004973.

COVID research: a year of scientific milestones
Nature waded through the literature on the coronavirus — and summarized key papers as they appeared.
Various information communication channels being explored on coronavirus: Webinars, tweets, lectures,  regional events, research papers, review papers, dashboards,  listservs -MEU India, capstone reports, social media

IMA,..

COVID-19 pandemic in India: A Comparison of pandemic pattern in Selected States
(Rath RS, Dixit AM, Koparkar AR, Kharya P, Joshi HS. COVID-19 pandemic in India: A Comparison of pandemic pattern in Selected States. Nepal J Epidemiol. 2020 Jun 30;10(2):856-864. doi: 10.3126/nje.v10i2.28960. PMID: 32874699; PMCID: PMC7423401.)
Public Health aspects of COVID New Insights
Video recordings
Public Health Aspects of Covid-19
For immediate action Helplines are  available


Be cautious about the false and fake news. Such miscommunication/disinformation  get spread easily through WhatsApp groups or social networks. It generates negative impact on your life or spoil your health or may adversely impact communities.
Disinformation in the information age (Ref. BMJ article)
The "Pandemic" of Disinformation in COVID-19
Disinformation, Misinformation and Inequality-Driven Mistrust in the Time of COVID-19: Lessons Unlearned from AIDS Denialism
Social media influence in the COVID-19 Pandemic
Disinformation in the information age

Media coverages Media briefing - WHO. 
        Media briefing - India

Therapeutic measures, Prophylactic measures, study design...observational study,...


Covid India Campaign: fighting against Covid-19

Nature article
25-2-2020

Book: The pandemic information gap: The brutal economics of COVID‐19, Joshua Gans, Cambridge, MA: The MIT Press, 2020. 249. pp. € 51.16 (paperback). (ISBN 9783319984872)
CNN article 
https://edition.cnn.com/interactive/2020/health/coronavirus-maps-and-cases/

Newspaper articles (May 2021)
BBC article
PM: India coronavirus variant must be 'handled carefully

Junior doctors in India's Covid crisis: 'We've grown up really fast'


The New York Times

How India Can Survive the Virus

Medicine Newspapers  

Medicaldialogues.in

Clinical guidelines for management of Covid-19

Task force


Scientific Advisory Committees

Donations

Dil Se Sewa :New Delhi Television Limited (NDTV) and Delhi Sikh Gurdwara Management Committee with a campaign, Dil Se Sewa - Helping India Breathe.

Science, Politics and Covid-19

COVID crisis changed lives of many people. It has affected migrant workers, daily wagers the most especially during lockdowns. Their immediate needs are safe drinking water, food, shelter, clothes. The efforts taken by the Governments are tremendous in curbing the spread of virus. Their continuous involvement in identifying asymptomatic carriers, in contact tracing , testing arrangements initially at the breakout were big task and now providing vaccines  to the massive population is a challenge.

Search Strategy on PubMed

(“covid 19” [tw] OR “novel coronavirus” [tw] OR “sars cov 2” [tw] OR “ncov 2019” [tw] OR (wuhan [tw] AND coronavirus [tw]) OR “corono virus” [tw] OR “coronavirus disease 2019” [tw] OR “coronavirus disease 19” [tw] OR “2019 ncov” [tw] OR “coronavirus 2” [tw] OR “severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2” [Supplementary Concept] OR “COVID-19” [Supplementary Concept]) AND english [lang]
Source:Lane Library Blog, Stanford University

Keep yourself informed about the latest Coronavirus government guidelines

Community Initiatives 

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