OPENLY AVAILABLE ACADEMIC & OTHER HEALTH INFO. RESOURCES
Graphic Medicine | https://www.graphicmedicine.org/category/webcomics/ Links to an external site.
This website has a lot of great features including a blog with web comics. Check out the COVID-19 related comics - https://www.graphicmedicine.org/covid-19-comics/#ethics Links to an external site. – which include educational comics, those about ethics, those created by patients and care providers, and more. There are also sister sites for Spanish and Japanese readers.
Life Kit (NPR) | https://www.npr.org/lifekit Links to an external site.
Life Kit talks to experts on subjects relating to, well, being human. There is a podcast and a newsletter. Recent topics include: how to get therapy when you can’t leave the house; how to focus while reading; and practicing social distancing with poetry.
MedLine Plus | https://medlineplus.gov/ Links to an external site.
MedLine Plus is a service of the National Library of Medicine providing health information and includes a medical encyclopedia, information aggregated from the National Institute of Health and other government agencies, and institutions of higher education. Medline also includes recipes, and much more.
Oxford University Press | https://global.oup.com/about/covid19?cc=gb Links to an external site.
Oxford University Press in conjunction with the White House Office of Science and Technology Policy and the U.S. National Library of Medicine is making online resources and leading journals freely accessible for the duration of the outbreak. OUP has organized a home page with categories for researchers, those in higher education, and for home-learners/parents/teachers. Biomedical and scientific literature such as that found in journals is being made available via PubMed Central - https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/ Links to an external site.
Project MUSE | https://muse.jhu.edu/ Links to an external site.
Project MUSE is making scholarly content temporarily available for free on their platform, which offers access to vetted research in the humanities and social sciences from a variety of university presses, societies, and related not-for-profit publishers. Participating publishers include Johns Hopkins University Press, Cornell University Press, Duke University Press and The MIT Press. For more information on free resources and participating publishers, see https://about.muse.jhu.edu/resources/freeresourcescovid19/ Links to an external site.. As there are now more than 80 participating publishers, MUSE is also curating a sampling of the temporarily free scholarship from their publishers on issues relating to the pandemic, which resources can be accessed at https://about.muse.jhu.edu/muse-in-focus/context-pandemic/ Links to an external site.
PubMed | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/ Links to an external site.
PubMed is a search engine maintained by the National Library of Medicine and includes biomedical literature from MedLine and life science journals and books. It is a great resource for academic journal articles; make sure you filter for “Free Full Text” for open access, full text options.
Springer Nature | https://www.springernature.com/gp/researchers/campaigns/coronavirus Links to an external site.
Springer Nature has made the latest coronavirus research and news freely available. If you are unable to access an article that you believe is important in understanding and addressing this emergency, Springer Nature asks that you contact their customer service team with your request: customerservice@springernature.com