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COVID-19: Temporary Free Resources
Temporary Free E-Resources in Response to COVID-19
In response to COVID-19, the following publishers and library vendors are offering free access to some online content for a limited time period.
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American Economic Association (AEA)
The American Economic Association is temporarily making all of its journals open access.
Available until: 30-06-2020
American Institute of Physics (AIP)
AIP Publishing has identified a collection of research articles relevant to infectious diseases, epidemics, computational epidemiology, and pandemics, and made them free to read.
https://publishing.aip.org/publications/journals/covid-19/
Available until: 31-03-2021
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Australian National University (ANU) Press
ANU Press has over 880 peer-reviewed publications freely available. Speciality topics include Asia and Pacific studies, gender politics, Indigenous studies, public policy, defence and the environment.
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Berghahn
Free access to all journals: https://www.berghahnjournals.com/page/journals
Biodiversity Heritage Library (BHL)
Over 250,000 e-books through their digital library portal
Thematic collections
Over 160,000 nature images
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Booklist
“Booklist is a book-review magazine that has been published by the American Library Association for more than 100 years, and is widely viewed as offering the most reliable reviews to help libraries decide what to buy and to help library patrons and students decide what to read, view, or listen to.”
https://www.booklistonline.com/
Available until: until further notice
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Cambridge
Textbooks, Companions and Elements.
All 700 textbooks published and currently available in HTML format on Cambridge Core (https://www.cambridge.org/core/what-we-publish/textbooks )
Available until: 31/05/2020
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Digital access to 700+ HTML textbooks available on the CambridgeCore platform. Free access period ends May 31. Users must be connected to the Yale network via VPN in order to access these materials.
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Cengage is offering free access to 14,000 ebooks via Cengage Unlimited through end of semester. Access requires creation of personal account using .edu email address.
CEN (European Committee for Standardization)
Making available a number of European standards for certain medical devices and personal protective equipment.
List of standards is available at this site (bottom of the page):
https://ec.europa.eu/commission/presscorner/detail/en/ip_20_502
Clarivate
Cortellis Drug Discovery Intelligence. You need to request access.
https://clarivate.com/cortellis/solutions/pre-clinical-intelligence-analytics/
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Dealhack Canada Guide to Free Online Resources
This is a compilation of online courses, software, academic journals, and apps that you can access for free during the COVID-19 pandemic.
https://dealhack.ca/blog/free-online-resources-for-canadians
Dimensions
The file contains the details of (and links to) all relevant publications, data sets and clinical trials. The content has been exported from Dimensions using a query in the openly accessible Dimensions application, which you can access at https://covid-19.dimensions.ai
As a Google Sheet: https://bit.ly/2TDDobv
As an Excel file hosted on figshare: https://bit.ly/38DHyEE
Providing all relevant content on COVID-19 in Dimensions as a single export file, updated daily, to make sharing and distributing this research information easier.
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EBSCO
E-books: a growing number of publishers are automatically upgrading all 1User, 3Users and Concurrent Access models to an Unlimited-Users model.
See list of publishers: List of publishers: https://more.ebsco.com/eBooks-Upgraded-Access-2020.html
Available until: 30/06/2020
EBSCO
Free temporary access to the following databases:
Academic Search Ultimate
Business Source Ultimate
eBook Academic Collection (multidisciplinary collection with over 200,000 e-books and unlimited user access)
Frick Art Reference Library Periodicals Index
African American Historical Serials Collection
Arte Público Hispanic Historical Collection, Series 1 and Series 2
Atla Historical Monographs Collection (11 Series)
Magazine Archives:
Atlantic Magazine Archive: 1857-2014
BusinessWeek Magazine Archive: 1929-2000
Ebony Magazine Archive: 1945-2014
Forbes Magazine Archive: 1917-2000
Fortune Magazine Archive: 1930-2000
LIFE Magazine Archive: 1936-2000
The Nation Magazine Archive: 1865-2020
The New Republic Magazine Archive: 1914-2020
People Magazine Archive: 1974-2000
Access: once on the the EBSCOHost site you will end up in the Academic Search Complete search screen. Click on the link Choose Databases at the top and then select your database.
Available until: 30/06/2020
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Faculty Select
Faculty Select provides course materials for adoption that are no cost to students
Faculty Select streamlines access to relevant Open Educational Resources (OER)
Faculty Select enables faculty to search and request access to high quality eBooks to support course material
Faculty Select improves access to course content for students
Faculty Select drives usage and value of your library materials and directly support course curricula
Tutorial: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0IUIk0nX8n0&feature=youtu.be
https://more.ebsco.com/Faculty-Select-COVID-19-LP.html
Available until: 15/06/2020
EBSCO
Flipster. Free access to over 1 800 magazines (e.g. Bloomberg BusinessWeek, Forbes, MacLean’s, Newsweek, etc. – see the list of titles)
Available until: 30/06/2020
EDP Sciences
Free access to most of their journals from 2018 to 2020. A few exceptions:
- Journals we publish on behalf of partners from whom we have not yet received permission; these will be added as and when we receive authorisation
- Journals we do not own for which we simply host content
https://publications.edpsciences.org/#!s=current&l=en
Available until: 30/06/2020
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Equinox Publishing
Equinox Publishing is making all journal issues published in the last 12 months and all new issues freely accessible until the Covid-19 crisis abates.
https://www.equinoxpub.com/home/journals/
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Guilford Press
Guilford has opened access and made all our journal content free.
Available until: 31/07/2020
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The National Emergency Library was created by the Internet Archive. Through June 30, 2020, they will have no waitlists for online materials, which consists of mostly older books that have been digitized. Users must register for an account and can check out up to 10 books at a time.
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John Libbey Eurotext
Making available the entire content of our journals free of charge during this period.
Medical fields.
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JSTOR
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JSTOR has offered expanded access to ebooks from the growing list of publishers appearing on this page. Access to this material goes through June 30th.
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JSTOR - Public Health Journal Archive
JSTOR and its participating publishers have made 26 newly released Public Health journals available for free.
Topics addressed include Epidemiology, Health Policy and Administration, Occupational and Environmental Health, Health Equity and the Culture of Health, Aging, Bioethics, and Health Promotion. Access is available through June 30.
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Library Journal
Library Journal is offering temporary free access to the digitized edition of LJ, as well as all the content on our website.
https://www.libraryjournal.com/
Please enter with the following credentials for full online access:
Login: access@libraryjournal.com
Password: LJfullaccess1
We are also providing free access to the digitized editions of our entire magazine archive, including the latest issue. To access, go to the LJ homepage and click on "Access Digitized Edition" in the upper left-hand corner. For return visits, click on "Bookshelf" in the upper right-hand corner of the Bookshelf-MSI landing page.
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MacMillan
SoftChalk : To create online lessons and course materials.
How to Quickly Get Started with SoftChalk:
Go here to open your free account: https://info.softchalk.com/extended-softchalk-cloud-trial?utm_campaign=General&utm_source=hs_email&utm_medium=email&utm_content=84696227&_hsenc=p2ANqtz-_wNgplG8kAtpbnrN0ImyLpmUaZPjJfDt17aY-vMBNZ-RIyOgi00Qh87AcjKgRfxw62IZZplWc4wVVCx4r9sf-1GPXvbg&_hsmi=84696227
Get started by reviewing our Video Tutorials. (This short introduction to creating an online lesson is a good place to start) Refer to our Quick Start Guide for any additional assistance Our Support Team is ready to provide assistance as needed.
Available until: 31/05/2020
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Middle Eastern Studies Resources
This guide provides a list of resources that are available through May 6, 2020. Yale owns many of the resources in print, but electronic access is being temporarily provided.
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Access through May 31st
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Ohio State University Press
Monographs and the linguistics textbook language files from the Ohio State University Libraries’ Institutional Repository.
Available until: To the end of the crisis
Online Resources for Science Laboratories (POD)
Simulations/virtual labs, case studies, data sets, other media - videos/podcasts/images/photos
Oxford University Press
Over 2,500 research articles on Coronavirus.
https://academic.oup.com/journals/pages/coronavirus
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RedShelf
RedShelf is providing students with free, convenient access to their learning materials.
e-books https://www.about.redshelf.com/redshelfresponds
Students need to create a free log-in to access : https://studentresponse.redshelf.com/
Available until: 25/05/2020
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Access to this ebook content is in place through June 25.
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ScienceDirect Textbooks
The 256 textbooks currently on ScienceDirect will be automatically entitled to all active ScienceDirect customers (including those journals customers who do not currently have books) for a period of 90 days. Users accessing ScienceDirect through IP or remote access will be able to use these books while campuses are closed.
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SIAM
The SIAM Epidemiology Collection, focused on disease modeling, pandemics, and vaccines, is freely available to all for one year: //lnk.ie/469TA/e=hartner [at] siam.org/https:/epubs.siam.org/page/EpidemiologyCollection" target="_blank">https://epubs.siam.org/page/EpidemiologyCollection
SIAM Journal on Mathematics of Data Science (//lnk.ie/469TB/e=hartner [at] siam.org/http:/epubs.siam.org/simods" target="_blank">epubs.siam.org/simods) continues to be freely available this year during its introductory launch period.
Springer Nature
Coronavirus research and news items.
Nature collection: https://www.nature.com/collections/hajgidghjb
Springer collection: https://www.springernature.com/gp/researchers/campaigns/coronavirus
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University of California Press
Free access to all of their online journals content.
https://www.ucpress.edu/journals
Available until: 30/06/2020
University of Michigan Press
E-books. Over 1,150 e-books from 2012 and onward.
Available until: 30/06/2020
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VitalSource
VitalSource is a platform that hosts multiple publishers including textbook publishers, including Wiley, Elsevier, Pearson, OUP and Taylor & Francis. It has temporarily opened its platform to the world. For a list of all participating publishers go to https://get.vitalsource.com/vitalsource-helps-full-list-of-participants. This resource is only available to enrolled students and those teaching a course. Please note, students and faculty will need to establish an account with their .edu email address and can have access to no more than 7 titles.
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Wiley
Cochrane Library will be temporarily unrestricted for everyone in every country of the world.
https://www.cochranelibrary.com/
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Wolters Kluwer
COVID Resource page. Health Clarity website.
Wolters Kluwer
Ovid's COVID-19 Toolkit for Clinicians.
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Yale University Press eBooks via De Gruyter
We have temporary access to Yale University Press titles with 2016 copyright dates and earlier. Available through June 30.