LibGuides: COVID-19 Interdisciplinary Research Resources: Specialized Databases

Specialized COVID Databases

To see all NU Library Databases, go to the A-Z Database List.

ProQuest Coronavirus Research Database This link opens in a new window
A collection of journal articles, preprints, conference proceedings, dissertations, and more related to COVID-19 and other coronaviruses. 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. Includes a read-aloud feature.

Cambridge Core Coronavirus Free Access Collection
Provides free access to content on COVID-19 that is published in Cambridge University Press's family of publications.
COVID-19 Research Platform
AI-driven & human-curated collection of research, news, literature reviews, clinical trials, datasets, and other educational resources on COVID-19.
EBSCO COVID-19 Information Portal
EBSCO's open-access initiative to provide access to related news and journal articles, maps and visuals, reports, and more from around the web.
HeinOnline: COVID-19: Pandemics Past and Present
Organizes content on COVID-19 into the following areas of focus: Economic Impact, Global Impact, Health Care Impact, and Societal Impact. Includes an expanding selection of scholarly articles and links.
LitCovid
A curated literature hub for tracking up-to-date scientific information about the 2019 novel Coronavirus. Includes comprehensive resource access on the subject from relevant articles in PubMed.
medRxiv & bioRxiv COVID-19 SARS-CoV-2 Preprints
Access preprints from medRxiv and bioRxiv. NOTE: These are preliminary reports that have not been peer-reviewed. They should not be regarded as conclusive, guide clinical practice/health-related behavior, or be reported in news media as established information.
Novel Coronavirus Information Center
Elsevier’s free health and medical research on the novel coronavirus (SARS-CoV-2) and COVID-19.
World Health Organization Global Literature Search on Coronavirus Disease
Database dedicated to searching COVID-19 literature with limiters available to filter by subject area, document type, database, language, and more.
Wiley Online Library - COVID-19: Novel Coronavirus Outbreak
Free access to articles and book chapters related to the current COVID-19 outbreak. Search special collections including mental health issues associated with COVID-19 outbreak, economic and social impact of COVID-19 and more.

Databases for Subject-Specific Research

ABI/INFORM Collection This link opens in a new window
Business research database covering economic conditions, management techniques, theory, and practice of business, advertising, marketing, economics, human resources, finance, taxation, computers, and more. Includes country and market reports, and SWOT analysis functionality.
Business Source Complete This link opens in a new window
EBSCO’s business database including scholarly articles, company profiles, and market research reports. Functionalities include SWOT analyses search filter, ability to search companies by criteria, a tool for discovering citing articles, and thesaurus to assist you in the discovery process.
Gale OneFile: Business This link opens in a new window
Journals, books and magazines covering economics, finance, marketing, management and business theory. Includes a visualization tool and browse by topic feature that aids in brainstorming topics, a Lexile feature that filters texts by difficulty, ability to highlight and add notes to text, and read-aloud feature.
Nexis Uni This link opens in a new window
News, business and legal sources. Legal cases, statutes and news, as well as the Shepard''s Citations® service for all federal and states court cases back to 1789. Business research resources like SWOT analysis functionality, financials, merger and acquisition information and industry/country reports. Company Dossier retrieves detailed company information and financial performance measures and identifies/compares companies matching specific criteria. Regional, national and international news coverage, wire services, and broadcast transcripts.

Education Research Complete This link opens in a new window
EBSCO’s education database covering curriculum instruction, administration, policy, funding and related social issues. Includes a tool to discover citing articles, text-to-speech feature for some articles, and a thesaurus feature to assist you in the discovery process.
ERIC This link opens in a new window
Governmental database focusing on education research and information. After an initial search, filter by audience, grade level, survey used, and main topic. Includes a thesaurus to aid in discovery process.
Gale OneFile: Educator's Reference Complete This link opens in a new window
Journals, books and magazines covering preschool to college levels and bilingual education studies, health, technology and testing. Includes a visualization tool and browse by topic feature that aids in brainstorming topics, a Lexile feature that filters texts by difficulty, ability to highlight and add notes to text, and read-aloud feature.
ProQuest Education Database This link opens in a new window
Scholarly journals, dissertations and wire feeds covering all levels of education, as well as special education, home schooling and adult education. Includes a Thesaurus feature that assists in using the database’s controlled vocabulary, as well as a read-aloud feature.

CINAHL Complete This link opens in a new window
EBSCO’s nursing database covering biomedicine, alternative/complementary medicine, consumer health and allied health disciplines. Strong in qualitative studies. Filter studies by nurse as author, evidence-based practice, and type of study. Includes MESH indexing, PICO search functionality, text-to-speech feature for some articles, and a tool for discovering citing articles.
Gale OneFile: Health and Medicine This link opens in a new window
Journals, reference books and magazines on health care topics. Includes a visualization tool and browse by topic feature that aids in brainstorming topics, a Lexile feature that filters texts by difficulty, ability to highlight and add notes to text, and read-aloud feature.
MEDLINE Complete This link opens in a new window
Government database provided through EBSCO platform. Biomedical and health journals. Provides MESH subject headings and offers the full text of many popular MEDLINE-indexed journals that are not available in other databases. Includes text-to-speech feature for some articles.
Ovid Nursing Full Text This link opens in a new window
Medical database covering nursing, allied health, education and training, development and management, midwifery, health and healthcare economics, clinical medical and healthcare social work, psychiatry and mental health, and traumatology, emergency and critical-care medicine. Advanced search functions including MESH capability.
PubMed Central This link opens in a new window
Governmental biomedical database with literature pulled from the National Library of Medicine’s Medline. Does not include books or other formats. Includes MESH search functionality.

APA PsycArticles This link opens in a new window
EBSCO platform of APA compiled Psychology journals for behavioral science studies. Includes test instrument search function, tool for discovering citing articles, and thesaurus to assist you in the discovery process.
APA PsycInfo This link opens in a new window
EBSCO’s platform of APA compiled resources covering all aspects of psychology, plus the behavioral aspect of education, medicine, sociology, law, management and other fields. Filter results by methodology and test instrument used. Includes a tool for discovering citing articles, and thesaurus to assist you in the discovery process. Note: This database provides more citations than full-text articles.
Gale OneFile: Psychology This link opens in a new window
Journals, magazines and books covering the subfields of Psychology: abnormal, biological, cognitive, comparative, developmental, personality, quantitative, social and all areas of applied psychology. Includes a visualization tool and browse by topic feature that aids in brainstorming topics, a Lexile feature that filters texts by difficulty, ability to highlight and add notes to text, and read-aloud feature.
ProQuest Psychology Database This link opens in a new window
Scholarly journals and dissertations covering genetics, psychology of business and economics, communication, criminology, addiction, neurology, social welfare, and more. Includes a Thesaurus feature that assists in using the database’s controlled vocabulary, as well as a read-aloud feature.
PsychiatryOnline This link opens in a new window
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Published by the American Psychiatric association is strong in reference materials. Access the DSM-5 manual and psychiatric journals, such as The American Journal of Psychiatry, Psychiatric Services, Psychiatric News, Psychosomatics, Journal of Neuropsychiatry & Clinical Neurosciences, and Academic Psychiatry. Browse books/journals, or keyword search and filter by topic, author or publication.

ACM Digital Library This link opens in a new window
The Association of Computing Machinery database is a research, discovery and network platform. The database provides journals, conference proceedings, technical magazines, newsletters and books. Provides a list of authors after an initial topic search, includes a dataset search filter, and the ability to sort results by most cited.
Gale OneFile: Computer Science This link opens in a new window
Journals, books and magazines in the computer, telecommunications, and electronics industries. Leading business and technical publications. Includes a visualization tool and browse by topic feature that aids in brainstorming topics, a Lexile feature that filters texts by difficulty, ability to highlight and add notes to text, and read-aloud feature.
IEEE Xplore Digital Library This link opens in a new window
Full-text peer-reviewed journals, transactions, magazines, conference proceedings, and published standards in the areas of electrical engineering, computer science, and electronics. Access to the IEEE Standards Dictionary Online. Useful to learn about current technology industry trends. Along with ACM database, this database has a function that allows searching for datasets.
ProQuest Computer Science Database This link opens in a new window
Scholarly journals, magazines and books covering database design, software development, web commerce, LANs, WANs, intranets, and the Internet. Includes a Thesaurus feature that assists in using the database’s controlled vocabulary, as well as read-aloud feature.