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Please consult Purdue's Things You Need to Know about COVID-19 for all university-related communications about this public health issue and how it is affecting life at Purdue.

Oxford Academic's free access to research resources on coronavirus and related topics

"Looking for research articles about coronavirus/2019-nCoV/CoVid-2019)? Start with these databases

• PubMed, biomedical literature from the USA's National Library of Medicine
• World Health Organization's Database of Publications on Coronavirus disease (COVID-19)
• Web of Science Core Collection, a Purdue Libraries-funded subscription database
• Scopus, a Purdue Libraries-funded subscription database

Make sure to consider each of the following terms

• "coronavirus" (a family of viruses that cause colds and more serious respiratory diseases),
• "2019-nCoV" or "2019 novel coronavirus" or "SARS-CoV-2" (various names used to refer to the specific virus causing worldwide health problems in late 2019 and 2020. SARS stands for "severe acute respiratory syndrome".)
• "CoVid-19", "COVID19", "CoVid-2019" or "coronavirus disease 2019" (names used to refer to the infection caused by 2019-nCoV)