Library: Pandemics: Find Articles

Suggested Pandemic Keywords

pandemic
covid-19
coronavirus
2019-ncov
2009 H1N1 pandemic
1918 Flu Pandemic
1968 Pandemic (H3N2 virus) 1957-58 Pandemic (H2N2 virus)

Suggested Epidemic Keywords

epidemic
war and epidemics
Diptheria epidemic (1921-25)
Cholera epidemics
West African Ebola Epidemic (2015-16)
Cocolizti Epidemics
Yellow Fever Philadelphia (1793)
HIV/AIDS

Suggested Plague Keyword

plague
Bubonic Plague
Yersinia pestis
Black Death (1346-1353)
Plague of Athens (430 B.C.)
Antonine Plague (165-180 A.D.)
Plague of Justinian (541-542 A.D.)
Great Plague of London - (1665)
Great Plague of Marseille (1720-1723)
Russian Plague (1770-1772)

Where Can I Find Articles about Pandemics?

Selected Databases with Medical and News Emphasis

MEDLINE with Full Text
A comprehensive index for medical journals and provides full text for more than 1,370 journals.
CINAHL Plus with Full Text
Index, abstracts, and full text of the literature of nursing and allied health.
Researching in CINAHL (YouTube)
Nexis Uni
Provides news, cases, law reviews, company profiles, and other full-text articles. Also includes the LexisNexis Company Dossier module.
Consumer Health Complete
Medical encyclopedias, magazine articles, and reference books for health care consumers.

Selected History Databases

Cambridge Core eBooks
This database also includes many journal articles.
Humanities International Complete
Index, abstracts, and full text for journals, books and other resources in the humanities.
America: History and Life
Index and abstracts of literature covering the history and culture of the United States and Canada, from prehistory to the present.
American Periodicals Series Online
Digitized images of the pages of over 1,100 historic American magazines, journals, and newspapers.
Historical Abstracts
Index and abstracts to articles covering world history from 1450 to present (excluding U.S. and Canada).

Literary Database

Literary Reference Center Plus
Information on thousands of authors and their works across literary disciplines and timeframes.

Psychology Databases

Anthropology Databases

eHRAF World Cultures
Find anthropological writings about epidemics among indigenous cultures in the Americas and around the world.
Sociological Collection
A comprehensive database with complete full-text articles from more than 500 major sociology journals on topics such as culture, community development, and social structure.

Selected Online Articles on Pandemics

How Pandemics Change History
A New Yorker article by Isaac Chotiner, published 3 March 2020.
How Pandemics End
May 10, 2020 article by Gina Kolata in The New York Times.
How to Define a Plague
July 27, 2020 article by Sonia Shah in The Nation.

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