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"COVID-19 Doesn't Care" A Public Health Short Video
Written, directed and produced by Jeffrey Toney, PhD and Stephanie Ishack, MD, PhD.
Sponsored by Sigma Xi, The Scientific Research Honor Society and Science Talk!

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Pandemics, Pills, and Politics

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Pandemics

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Worldmark Global Health and Medicine Issues

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Dictionary of Epidemiology

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Primary Care and Public Health

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Recommended Database for Coronavirus Research

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Coronavirus Research Database (ProQuest) -- Complimentary This link opens in a new window
Features thousands of open-access articles, conference proceedings, dissertations, and more related to the COVID-19 pandemic and other coronaviruses, including MERS and SARS.

Additional databases for current COVID-19 articles:

Health and Medicine -- Find A Topic (America's News, NewsBank) "Find information on topics related to diseases and conditions, fitness and wellness, medical care, mental health, nutrition and sports medicine."

Issues & Controversies (Infobase Learning) This link opens in a new window Good starting point for gathering background information (including pro and con perspectives) on current hot topics; helpful source of research topic ideas.
Points of View Reference Center (EBSCOhost / JerseyClicks) (NJSL) This link opens in a new window Provides essays that present opposing viewpoints on a variety of current topics. This is a great tool for researching the pros and cons of controversial issues.

Databases for Historical Research on Pandemics

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America's Historical Newspapers (Readex) This link opens in a new window Provides access to early American newspapers from 1690 to 1789.
Gale eBooks (Gale Cengage Learning) This link opens in a new window A comprehensive collection of reference resources such as subject-focused encyclopedias and dictionaries, available in a single database.
Health Reference Center (Infobase Learning) This link opens in a new window Provides information -- including encyclopedia articles, news articles, images, and videos -- on topics related to health, wellness, disease, etc.
JSTOR (ITHAKA) This link opens in a new window Provides archival access to scholarly journals in wide-ranging academic disciplines; JSTOR does not provide the most recent issues but instead provides access to a journal's older issues.
New Jersey Historical Newspapers (Readex) This link opens in a new window Provides access to late 18th and 19th century New Jersey newspapers.
Oxford Reference (Oxford University Press) This link opens in a new window Contains facts, figures, definitions, quotations, and translations from 300+ Oxford reference titles, as well as in-depth, scholarly articles from titles in the Oxford Companions series and Oxford Digital Reference Shelf.
ProQuest Historical Newspapers: The New York Times (VALE) This link opens in a new window Digital image archive of the New York Times beginning in September 1851 and ending several years before the current year.
SAGE Knowledge This link opens in a new window Provides reference resources such as subject-focused dictionaries, encyclopedias, and other reference materials published by SAGE.

Multimedia Database

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Films on Demand (Infobase Learning) This link opens in a new window Films on Demand provides access to "video and multimedia for academic, vocational and life-skills content." Click "Collections" to access videos in various subject areas, such as Art & Architecture, Biology, Business & Economics, Criminal Justice & Law, Education, English, Gender & Sexuality, Guidance & Counseling, Health & Medicine, History, Psychology, and more. Also features Archival Films & Newsreels.

Statistics Database

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PolicyMap This link opens in a new window Features an online GIS mapping tool that allows users to create interactive maps and plot data by geographical location. Data indicators provided include demographics, education, income, housing, employment, health, crime, and much more.
Social Explorer This link opens in a new window Provides easy access to maps and reports of U.S. Census data from 1790 to the present; the Religious Congregations and Membership Study from 1980 to 2010; population, health and social care, and labor market data from the 2011 United Kingdom Census; U.S. crime data from the Uniform Crime Reporting (UCR) Program and Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI); U.S. County Health Rankings & Roadmaps; European demographic data from Eurostat; population data from the 2011 Canadian census; and demographic and socioeconomic data from World Development Indicators (World Bank).
Statista This link opens in a new window Presents data as infographics and features reports on over 80,000 topics, including media, business, healthcare, politics, society, technology, and education.