See also the Library subject guide for Health & Social Care
The resources listed below are only a small selection from what is available, with an emphasis on the social sciences. Further resources, mainly focusing on medical aspects are listed on the Health subject guide.
For additional resources, see other subject guides – many of the organisations/websites listed on them will have Covid specific pages/resources e.g. http://www.oecd.org/coronavirus/en/
1. Bibliography/Lists of Sources/Websites /Feeds
Portals
UNRIC list of Covid databases (mostly UN & other international agencies)
General Publications
ArXiv https://arxiv.org/
https://osf.io/preprints/socarxiv/a5nqw/ useful compilation of open access resources
https://www.researchgate.net/community/COVID-19
CORD-19 Allen Institute for AI https://www.semanticscholar.org/cord19 (JSON file)
Scitrus/Atypon Coronavirus Pandemic feed https://www.scitrus.com/special/novel%20coronavirus%20outbreak/
PanSurg REDASA https://www.pansurg.org/redasa/ collaboration between Imperial College London, Amazon Web Services &
others to assimilate the corpus of knowledge from traditional academic literature, websites and social media. In response to COVID-19 queries, REDASA will search over 400,000 data sources and rapidly output focussed answers
General Websites
Novel Coronavirus (Covid-19) web archive https://archive-it.org/collections/13529
UNICEF Covid-19 Vaccine Market Dashboard - interactive tool for partners, manufacturers and countries to follow up-to-date information on the COVID-19 vaccine and therapeutics market
Vaccination Demand Observatory https://vaccinationdemandobservatory.org/
Independent Panel for Pandemic Preparedness & Response https://theindependentpanel.org/
IZA working paper 6 country study of impact & opinions https://covid-19.iza.org/publications/dp13230/
Covid Behaviors dashboard on vaccine acceptance & related behaviors (Johns Hopkins University Center for Communication Programs) https://covidbehaviors.org/ (data collection ceased 25 June 2022). See also JHUs broader Coronavirus Resource Center. Updating ceased 10 March 2023 but raw data can still be accessed
UK
UK Covid literature & government publications: https://socialsciencecurrentwareness.blogspot.com/
UK Web Archive (BL) https://www.webarchive.org.uk/en/ukwa/collection/2446
British Academy detailed report - The Covid Decade: understanding the long-term societal impacts
https://www.thebritishacademy.ac.uk/documents/3238/COVID-decade-understanding-long-term-societal-impacts-COVID-19.pdf
Essex
https://www.essex.ac.uk/research/covid19/latest-research
Research Repository http://repository.essex.ac.uk/
ISER https://www.iser.essex.ac.uk/research/publications?action=search&controller=publications&s=Covid+19
Developing Countries
Global Social Response to Covid-19 Web Archive (Ivy Plus Libraries Confederation) https://libguides.princeton.edu/covid-ivy - global initiative capturing websites from under-represented countries, groups & languages in the Global South
2. Consumer Behaviour
Comscore https://www.comscore.com/Insights/Coronavirus
3. Data/Statistics
Our World in Data useful portal https://ourworldindata.org/coronavirus
WHO Covid dashboard https://covid19.who.int/
UN Covid data hub https://covid-19-data.unstatshub.org/
see also report https://unstats.un.org/unsd/ccsa/documents/covid19-report-ccsa.pdf and volume 2 https://unstats.un.org/unsd/ccsa/documents/covid19-report-ccsa_vol2.pdf
Twitter data http://www.panacealab.org/covid19/
Social data during the COVID-19 pandemic, coordinated by Ben Geiger (University of Kent) & hosted on GoogleDocs
Public Medicines for Covid-19 https://publicmeds4covid.org/ interesting site maintained by Universities Allied for Essential Medicines, tracks public investments in vaccine research & companies worldwide
Europe
Eurobarometer survey of EU citizens opinions on Covid
https://op.europa.eu/en/publication-detail/-/publication/de6de962-32e4-11ec-bd8e-01aa75ed71a1/language-en/format-PDF/source-238406838
UK
Official UK government portal to Covid data https://coronavirus.data.gov.uk/
Centre for Longitudinal Studies – Covid-19 survey in 5 major uk longitudinal cohort surveys. May 2020 and repeated at ongoing intervals https://cls.ucl.ac.uk/covid-19-survey/
Centre for Time Use Research 6 Wave Sequence Across the Covid Pandemic 2016-2021 https://beta.ukdataservice.ac.uk/datacatalogue/studies/study?id=8741
UK Data Service Covid-19 theme page https://www.ukdataservice.ac.uk/get-data/themes/covid-19.aspx which includes this teaching dataset
ONS Coronavirus page https://www.ons.gov.uk/peoplepopulationandcommunity/healthandsocialcare/conditionsanddiseases
Co-SPACE, UKRI funded survey looking at UK families during the pandemic https://www.psy.ox.ac.uk/research/topic-research-group/supporting-parents-adolescents-and-children-during-epidemics
Covid-19 vaccine reports https://reports.opensafely.org/ data on vaccine uptake, compiled by Bennett Institute for Applied Data Science (University of Oxford) for NHS England
National Audit Office Covid cost tracker https://www.nao.org.uk/covid-19/cost-tracker/
United States
Covid Tracking Project
Argonne National Laboratory Covid 19 Impact Analyses
Vaccine Hesitancy Visualisation Tool from COVID Collaborative and the Institute for Health Metrics and Evaluation (IHME) at the University of Washington School of Medicine
https://covid19.census.gov/ and 50 state survey https://covidstates.org/
Microsoft AI for Health Covid Data - uses publicly available data to offer infection & death statistics down to Congressional District level for the US (data also available for other countries)
Latin America
Covid 19 Observatory (University of Miami) focuses on Latin America http://observcovid.miami.edu/
4. Economics
Labour market https://ilostat.ilo.org/topics/covid-19/
CEPR Covid Economics https://cepr.org/content/covid-economics
UNCTAD https://unctad.org/programme/covid-19-response
https://unctad.org/programme/covid-19-response/impact-on-trade-and-development-2021 portal on effects on trade & development
WTO-IMF Covid-19 Vaccine Trade Tracker provides data on the trade and supply of COVID-19 vaccines by product, economy and arrangement type https://www.wto.org/english/tratop_e/covid19_e/vaccine_trade_tracker_e.htm
Covid 19 & Remittances in Africa https://storymaps.arcgis.com/stories/fcb8e297b5c34516ae91a6f0a399a812
Covid-19 Economic Stimulus Index http://web.boun.edu.tr/elgin/COVID.htm developed by Turkish economists (last updated May 2021)
European Investment Bank Covid-19 Economic Vulnerability Index looks at countries outside the EU
Covid Jobs Research:UK is a collaborative research project spearheaded by academics in the Economics Department, University of Essex
5. Education
https://www.ifs.org.uk/publications/14848
Unesco https://en.unesco.org/covid19
UK Student Covid Insights Survey:
https://www.ons.gov.uk/peoplepopulationandcommunity/healthandsocialcare/healthandwellbeing/bulletins/coronavirusandhighereducationstudents/england20novemberto25november2020
Higher Education https://www.studentcrowd.com/article/university-responses-to-covid-19
Unicef remote learning readiness index https://data.unicef.org/resources/remote-learning-readiness-index/
Covid-19 Global Education Recovery Tracker https://www.covideducationrecovery.global/
UniCovid: tracking Covid-19 at UK universities website with data through to Nov. 2020 on Covid in UK higher education
6. Ethics
Digital contact tracing https://muse.jhu.edu/book/75831
7. Film & Video
BFI Britain on Lockdown https://www.bfi.org.uk/bfi-national-archive/look-behind-scenes/britain-lockdown-online-video-archive crowd-sourcing the best videos from the public portraying different aspects of life under lockdown
8. Inequalities. Race & Ethnicity. Gender
IFS https://www.ifs.org.uk/inequality/covid-19-and-inequality/ see also Demos think tank
The Black Frontline oral history interviews with Black medical staff in the US, UK & Ghana
Gender and Covid-19 https://www.genderandcovid-19.org/ brings together academics from around the world, conducting real time gender analysis to identify and document the gendered dynamics of COVID-19
Data dashboard from UNDP https://data.undp.org/gendertracker/
UN Women report summarising Rapid Gender Assessment surveys in various countries:
https://data.unwomen.org/publications/women-and-girls-left-behind-glaring-gaps-pandemic-responses
Covid Tracker (US) https://covidtracking.com/
Violentadas en cuarantena - surveys reporting on gender-based violence during lockdown in Latin American countries
9. Language
https://podcasts.ox.ac.uk/series/translating-illness
10. Law
Covid-19 Law Lab https://covidlawlab.org/ project from UN/WHO and others, contains legal documents from over 190 countries worldwide on states of emergency, regulation of social distancing and lockdowns
11. Media/Information. Social media
Countering Disinformation (AHRC project) https://www.counteringdisinformation.com/blog/we-spent-six-weeks-asking-people-about-media-coverage-of-the-coronavirus-heres-what-they-told-us
Reporters Without Borders (RSF) https://rsf.org/en/tracker19-Coronavirus-Covid19
Kaiser Family Foundation analyses of media & disinformation in US: https://www.kff.org/coronavirus-covid-19/poll-finding/kff-covid-19-vaccine-monitor-media-and-misinformation/
https://sdmemes.mystrikingly.com/implications downloadable ebook compiled by US researcher on social distancing, as conveyed by memes on Facebook
International Press Institute Covid-19 Media Freedom Monitoring https://ipi.media/covid19-media-freedom-monitoring/
12. Mental Health
13. Mobility. Movement
Links to free Facebook & Google GPS data https://spectrum.ieee.org/the-human-os/telecom/wireless/facebook-google-data-publics-movement-covid19
Google Covid-19 Community mobility reports https://www.google.com/covid19/mobility/
International Organization for Migration – Covid-19 Human Mobility Impacts https://migration.iom.int/
see also 2022 report https://publications.iom.int/books/covid-19-and-state-global-mobility-2021
14. Oral History/Digital Archives
Library of Congress Coronavirus Web Archive https://www.loc.gov/collections/coronavirus-web-archive collection of representative Web content (mostly US). See also its Stories from the Covid-19 Pandemic: a resource guide which links to COVID-19 collections within the Library of Congress and to online collections outside of the Library
Journal of a plague year – curated by Arizona State University team, the largest international effort to compile a digital archive of life under the pandemic, comprising images, videos, oral histories, emails, texts, news stories and social media posts:
https://covid-19archive.org/s/archive/page/welcome
University of Minnesota-Duluth Northeastern Minnesota COVID-19 Community Archive Project
Western Wisconsin Covid 19 Archive Project https://lib02.uwec.edu/Omeka/s/C19/page/welcome
The British Library has major collections relating to Covid, including oral history projects, children's play, radio & TV broadcasts & recordings, archived websites https://www.bl.uk/collection-guides/covid-19-collections
Its Covid 19 Testimony Projects Database collates details of over 100 UK based Covid oral histories, personal diaries, artwork and photography (amongst other things)
Mass Observation Covid-19 Database http://massobs_covid.geodata.soton.ac.uk/projects_database/covid_combined/
Material collected by the Mass Observation unit, based at Sussex University (with funding from the Wellcome Institute) during 2020-2021. Includes diaries, directives (questionnaires) and the open call collection.
https://www.scottisharchives.org.uk/latest/news/collecting-covid-19/
Renew Normal - the People’s Commission on Life After Covid-19 supported by Demos think tank, is surveying the UK population (website has selected extracts + reports)
Dr Michael Ward (Swansea University) CoronaDiaries https://collections.swansea.ac.uk/s/coronadiaries/page/home
The project has a total of 182 participants, from 14 different countries, who are aged between 11 and 89. Nearly 750 first-hand submissions - ranging from handwritten notebooks, diaries and dream logs to videos, social media posts, Tik Toks, music playlists - chronicle the first 12 months of the pandemic.
The Black Frontline oral history interviews with Black medical staff in the US, UK & Ghana
15. Politics
UK academics researching political aspects of Covid https://www.pandemicpolitics.net/
Hansard Society Coronavirus Statutory Instruments Tracker https://www.hansardsociety.org.uk/publications/data/coronavirus-statutory-instruments-dashboard
Oxford Covid-19 Government Response Tracker (OxCGRT) https://www.bsg.ox.ac.uk/research/research-projects/coronavirus-government-response-tracker
ACLED Covid-19 Disorder Tracker https://acleddata.com/analysis/covid-19-disorder-tracker/
UNU EPIC Tracker (Evidence Policy & Interventions) https://epictracker.org/#featured inventory of government public health, economic, social, and community measures taken to respond to COVID-19 across all countries.
See also the WHOs Public Health & Social Measures Calibration Tool for comparison of policy measures countries have taken
https://phsm.euro.who.int/calibrationTool
Freedom House report on Covid’s effect on democracy https://freedomhouse.org/report/special-report/2020/democracy-under-lockdown
16. Religion
Pandemic religion: a digital archive (US) https://pandemicreligion.org/s/contributions/page/welcome
See also the resources listed in the General and United Kingdom sections
For urban areas specifically:
Mercer Quality of Living Index attempts to rank cities worldwide
For the UK:
Office for National Statistics Well-being data and publications (older releases on National Archives webpages)
London Wellbeing & Sustainability Measure from the GLA uses a range of indicators to assess Londoners' wellbeing since 2012. Some indicators permit analysis by borough or by socio-demographic variables such as age, tenure type, ethnicity, disability, sex, eligibility for free school meals, special educational needs, and Index of Multiple Deprivation quintiles.
United States:
Gallup-Sharecare Well-being Index of the health, economic & social well-being of American citizens using data from daily market research polls
Measure of America assesses well-being & quality of life in the US at national, state and local level
