For week 2 of the COVID-19 elective, you will be researching a particular country and its response to the pandemic. This guide provides various useful resources for your research. This website only contains a selection of resources, but you will also likely discover others that provide you with useful information.
Explore UT LIbraries' collection:
1. Databases - Using the menus at the top of the databases' homepage to filter by subject area or by type of resources. Especially useful ones include:
The PAIS Archive database comprises a retrospective conversion of the PAIS Annual Cumulated Bulletin, Volumes 1-62, published 1915-1976. At completion of this conversion, the PAIS Archive contains over 1.23 million records.
Set up LibKey Nomad to find access through the UT Libraries subscriptions and purchases.
The Web of Science platform currently also provides temporary access to several databases that are not part of the Core Collection, including Biosis Citation Index, Data Citation Index, and Zoological Record.
Use this link to access Google Scholar, and see our Google Scholar Guide for information on using this resource.
If you encounter a warning about the security certificate when using the FindIt@UT tool in Google Scholar, you can learn more about that using this guide.
2. Books - Use the UT Libraries catalog to search for books. Use the left panel of the results page to filter to eBooks.
3. Google - use site searching to find good quality resources - i.e. site:.edu, site:.gov, site:.int, site:.org, for example. Or if you are looking for newspaper articles, you can just do a regular search in order to get the .com websites.
4. Google Scholar - search for scholarly articles and preprints. Set up Google Scholar with the "View it@ UT" button. See instructions on the UT Libraries Google Scholar guide.
Library guides by UT Librarians containing links to helpful resources for country research:
Websites
Find pages about each country on the United States CDC website:
Find pages about each country and region on the WHO website. Click on "Countries" and look at regional or specific country pages.
UT Library Guides
UT LIbraries' Databases
This database was formerly called Dow Jones Interactive.
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Key newspaper titles include El Universal, Mexico City's largest-selling newspaper; O Globo (Brazil); La Nacion (Argentina); and El Mercurio (Chile). Three business titles, El Economista (Mexico), Valor Economico (Brazil), and Portafolio (Colombia) are also important resources for researchers.
A complete title list is available.
Global Health News
News from Specific Countries
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