Keeping Up with Studies on COVID-19: Systematic Search Strategies and Resources
Dear Editor,
The reason I write this letter is to take a small step to help the audience on evidence-informed decision making through keeping them up with rapidly-growing COVID-19 studies in PubMed and other alternative resources. Many of these studies in alternative resources are not going to be visible in PubMed or Embase in the next few or several months because of indexing and content policy in bibliographic databases that avoids indexing preprint and unpublished studies including registered clinical trials.
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Keeping Up with Studies on COVID-19: Systematic Search Strategies and Resources
Dear Editor,
The reason I write this letter is to take a small step to help the audience on evidence-informed decision making through keeping them up with rapidly-growing COVID-19 studies in PubMed and other alternative resources. Many of these studies in alternative resources are not going to be visible in PubMed or Embase in the next few or several months because of indexing and content policy in bibliographic databases that avoids indexing preprint and unpublished studies including registered clinical trials.
PubMed for Recent Published Literature on COVID-19
Live Strategy and Results in Current PubMed: https://tinyurl.com/waj7hmj
Live Strategy and Results in Future PubMed: https://tinyurl.com/uwbsvo2
medRxiv and bioRxiv for Unpublished Studies on COVID-19
https://connect.medrxiv.org/relate/content/181
ClinicalTrials.Gov for Clinical Trials on COVID-19
Live Strategy and Results: https://tinyurl.com/t9vwzfo
Google Scholar for Published and Unpublished Literature on COVID-19
Live Strategy and Results: https://tinyurl.com/spj6oox
COVID-19: Living Map of the Evidence: https://tinyurl.com/rw5ym7x
Cochrane Resources on Coronavirus (COVID-19): https://www.cochranelibrary.com/covid-19
Oxford COVID-19 Evidence Service: https://www.cebm.net/covid-19/
NICE Rapid Guideline and Summaries on COVID-19: https://www.nice.org.uk/covid-19
WHO Coronavirus disease (COVID-19) Pandemic: https://www.who.int/emergencies/diseases/novel-coronavirus-2019
Yours Sincerely,
Farhad Shokraneh
Competing interests: No competing interests