Research Guides: 2019 Novel Coronavirus (COVID-19): COVID-19 in Your Research Assignments

Want to write a paper about the Coronavirus?

This blog post is an excellent resource for learning more about writing a paper on Coronavirus. It comes from the librarians at Portland Community College. Take a look, be inspired! Ask a WashU Librarian for help navigating our resources to help you with this paper topic.

"2019 Novel Coronavirus" on the PCC Librarian "From news to research paper" blog
PCC librarians wrote this blog post to help students think about how to use the Coronavirus as a paper topic. The post talks about some potential topic ideas to consider.

Keywords for researching the novel coronavirus

The disease has been referred to by several names, so it's worthwhile to try several different keyword searches to find everything on the subject:

Novel coronavirus
COVID-19
Wuhan coronavirus
SARS-CoV-2 (the virus that causes the Novel Coronavirus disease)
2019-N-COV (scientific abbreviation for 2019 Novel Coronavirus)

If you're searching for scholarly articles, the terms COVID-19, 2019-N-COV, and SARS-CoV-2 will be most useful. If you're searching for news sources novel coronavirus and COVID-19 will likely be most useful.