Thursday, May 7, 2020

New COVID-19 Resources Guide

The COVID-19 pandemic has had implications across multiple fields: health, education, politics, and law. It has also affected all of us, in some way, personally. As it touches on nearly every aspect of our lives, the amount of information related to the outbreak can be overwhelming. We are inundated with claims from news, social media, friends, colleagues, and more.

Most concerning for many is finding resources on the outbreak and the virus that are reliable. In response, the Goodson Law Library's Faculty and Scholarly Services Librarian Wickliffe Shreve has created a new research guide on COVID-19 Resources, now available on the library website. The new guide covers sites dedicated to health, government, international, and legal resources on reactions to and studies of the pandemic. It also focuses on work on COVID-19 produced by the Duke community, in particular the Duke Law community. For law students, faculty, and members of the legal profession familiar with the major legal databases, it also points to dedicated collections on COVID-19 in Bloomberg Law, Lexis, and Westlaw.

The new COVID-19 Resources guide is just one of many detailed Research Guides available from the Goodson Law Library. If your research topic isn't listed (such as a research guide to the law of a state outside of North Carolina), try the link to Search All Law Schools to locate research guides from other U.S. law school libraries, or Ask a Librarian to show you the way.

--Wickliffe (Wick) Shreve, Faculty and Scholarly Services Librarian