COVID-19

Duke is providing free access to the following books and journal articles to help build knowledge and understanding of how we navigate the spread of communicable diseases.

Oxford University Press has made content from online resources and leading journals freely accessible to assist researchers, medical professionals, policy makers, and others who are working to address this health crisis.

In response to the COVID-19 pandemic, the Allen Institute for AI has partnered with leading research groups to prepare and distribute the COVID-19 Open Research Dataset (CORD-19), a free resource of over 44,000 scholarly articles, including over 29,000 with full text, about COVID-19 and the coronavirus family of viruses for use by the global research community.

As the world attempts to combat coronavirus, view some of our newest content related to COVID-19. Then, keep reading to explore past global pandemics and the world’s response with HeinOnline’s Law Journal Library and various historical databases.

Ann Brantley, Hazard Vulnerability Analysis Nurse Coordinator of the Center for Emergency Preparedness, interviewed several pandemic influenza survivors for a historical perspective on this devastating event in world history.

Curated documents from the US National Archives.

More than 140 documents online about influenza in the 20th century.

These pages contain the stories of the places, the people, and the organizations that battled the American influenza epidemic of 1918-1919.

More than 100 digital facsimiles--mostly photographs and newspapers--on the flu from the 19th and 20th centuries.

A curated selection of documents (text and images) hosted by the CDC about the flu in the 20th century.

The 1918 Influenza had a dramatic impact on WSU and Pullman. As part of military build-up for World War I, the WSU campus had swelled with 1,325 Student Army Training Corps (S.A.T.C.) cadets. This collection includes more than 120 documents on the issue.