LitCovid: A Tool For Finding Scholarly Articles on the COVID-19 Virus

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LitCovid is a searchable database librarians, health professionals, and the general public can use to find scholarly articles indexed in PubMed on the COVID-19 Virus. At the time of this writing there are just under 173,000 articles in this database. Bellow you can find a screen shot of the front page of LitCovid.  

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/research/coronavirus/ 

This product is published and maintained by the National Library of Medicine provides individuals the opportunity to search for any articles related to COVID-19. Below is an example of a search on vaccine hesitancy. The results can be refined by relevance or date published. Individuals can further limit their search by checking the checkboxes on the left side of the results. On the right-side results are broken down by weekly publications and countries that published the results.  

As with any search tools there are limitations to this database. Some of these limitations include: 1. That all articles are indexed in PubMed but not all published articles are indexed in PubMed. 2. Not all the articles are full text. 3. Some of the articles will require access through a pay wall or other full text database.  4. Most of the articles are scholarly and may not be of interest to the general public.  

In closing, LitCovid is an article searching tool that provides information about the COVID-19 Virus that can be used by researchers, librarians, health professionals and the general public. The product offers an efficient way to find articles indexed in PubMed related to any aspect of the COVID-19 Virus. Hopefully you can use this tool with your populations of interest.  

 

David M Brown holds a Doctor of Education with a specialization in health education from Teachers College Columbia University. He also holds a Master of Library and Information Science from Wayne State University. Additionally, he has two Masters of Arts Degrees from Columbia University one in computers and education and another in health education. He is a Master Certified Health Education Specialist. 

Dr. Brown has been involved in training public health professionals for the last 15 years, teaching and supervising research in health education and public health at a number of universities in both the United States and abroad.  He has served on the board of directors for the Society for Public Health Education.  He currently serves on the Divisional Board for the Certification of Health Education Specialists with The National Commission for Health Education Credentialing Inc. He has also served on several editorial boards related to health education and promotion.