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Publishers Offer Free Access During COVID-19 Crisis
During this challenging time of education institutions moving into an exclusively online learning environment, several publishers have generously opened up access to content in their collections, ensuring that students and researchers have access to resources in a multitude of disciplines. The list below will be continuously updated as we are made aware of such access.
Academic Complete eBooks (ProQuest) - TRIAL through June 30, 2020
ProQuest has opened up access to the Academic Complete subscription collection of 182,000 titles on the eBook Central platform.
Academic Video Online - AVON (ProQuest/Alexander Street)
Now including 360 VR videos! This database includes scholarly video material of virtually every video type: documentaries, interviews, performances, news programs and newsreels, field recordings, commercials, demonstrations, original and raw footage including tens of thousands of exclusive tiles. There are thousands of award-winning films, Academy,® Emmy,® and Peabody® winners along with the most frequently used films for classroom instruction, plus newly released films and previously unavailable archival material.
As courses transition to online, we can provide complimentary electronic “reserve” copies of our textbooks for students who do not have access to our print books. Please contact us through the “request desk copy” link on the specific textbook page
To assist the many students, faculty, and researchers who are working and studying remotely during the COVID-19 pandemic, we have made our journals available to all, without access control, through June 15, 2020.
Business Source Ultimate (EBSCO) - TRIAL through June 30, 2020
An upgraded version of Business Source Ultimate, expanding access to full-text peer reviewed journals, books, detailed company information, video and more. Remote users must authenticate with their NDSU credentials.
**Includes access to the Top 500 Harvard Business Review journal articles.**
For U.S. higher education institutions experiencing unplanned, mid-semester impacts due to COVID-19, Cengage is offering students free access to all our digital platforms and 14,000 ebooks through Cengage Unlimited, for the remainder of this semester.
In efforts to provide access to faculty and students to the thousands of print books on library shelves, De Gruyter and University Press partners are providing complete access from their first book through 2016 – 75,000 titles – through June 30, 2020. Thank you De Gruyter and University Press partners: Columbia University Press | Cornell University Press | Harvard University Press | Princeton University Press | Rutgers University Press | Stanford University Press | University of California Press | University of Chicago Press | University of Hawai‘i Press | University of Pennsylvania Press | University of Toronto Press | Yale University Press. Remote users must authenticate with their NDSU credentials.
**Please note that access to content from the University of California Press, University of Chicago Press and Yale University Press will be delayed until the end of April/early May due to the De Gruyter platform upgrade. Access will automatically be granted once this content is available.**
Enjoy our Digital Concert Hall for free for 30 days. Just copy & paste the code BERLINPHIL at https://digitalconcerthall.com/tickets.
The Philharmonie Berlin is closed until 19 April to help contain the coronavirus. But the orchestra will continue to play for you – in the Digital Concert Hall. The Berliner Philharmoniker invite you to visit their virtual concert hall free of charge.
eBook Academic Collection (EBSCO) - TRIAL through June 30, 2020
This multidisciplinary collection includes over 200,000 e-books covering a large selection of academic subjects and features e-books from leading publishers and university presses. Remote users must authenticate with their NDSU credentials.
Faculty Select is a single interface where faculty can easily discover and access Open Educational Resources (OER), as well as find and request access to unrestricted, DRM-free e-books from top academic publishers.
Flipster (EBSCO) - TRIAL through June 30, 2020
Free access to over 1,400 popular magazines! Remote users must authenticate with their NDSU credentials.
Need to de-stress? Print pages from the 150+ coloring books.
Harvard Business Review Press eBook Collection (EBSCO) - TRIAL
To help lessen the pressure placed on libraries to support online instruction during the COVID-19 outbreak, EBSCO and Harvard Business Publishing have waived all costs for libraries to access the Harvard Business Review E-Book Subscription Collection until June 9, 2020.
IET Digital Library - TRIAL
The Institution of Engineering and Technology (IET) high-quality book portfolio provides a comprehensive resource for the engineering and technology community and covers reference and emerging topics in A.I., cyber security, big data, computing, healthcare technologies, electromagnetics, sensors, circuits, devices, systems, electrical, unmanned vehicles, mechanical, power, energy, sonar, radar, electronic warfare, and computer science. This free trial is available until June 30, 2020, and includes the following:
- eBooks: IET Control Engineering sector package (1979-2012)
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eBooks: IET Ultimate Collection (1979-2019)
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eBooks: IET 2020 Frontlist
JoVE, the Journal of Visualized Experiments, has made their Education series of science videos free until June 15th. This includes video demos in 8 STEM fields, Core Biology and Core Social Psychology video textbooks, and Lab Manual videos for intro bio labs. Remote users must authenticate with their NDSU credentials.
As colleges, universities, and secondary schools continue to transition from classroom to online instruction, faculty can use the resources here to set up JoVE’s educational video content available for free through June 15, 2020.
JSTOR and participating publishers have made 26 newly released Public Health journals available for free access through June 30, 2020.
Access to all other journal archive collections and over 20,000 ebooks not currently licensed by NDSU Libraries has been requested. Check back later for further details.
See 'Kanopy Support for Academic Libraries' for additional details and links to collections/titles.
Because this is an ongoing effort from both the Kanopy team and their content partners, the list of offerings will continue to grow within the coming weeks.
The MIT Press is offering libraries complimentary access to the MIT Press Direct collection of eBooks through the end of May 2020 to support faculty and students who are working and learning remotely. Remote users must first authenticate with their NDSU credentials.
The Ohio State University Press opens up access to monographs and textbooks in COVID-19 Crisis.
Participating publishers of scholarly books and journals are listed on the link above. Each publisher designates the specific content and for how long it will be freely available on MUSE.
Elsevier has made 256 textbooks freely accessible to current ScienceDirect customers to support students and lecturers whose classes have moved from campus to online. Visit the list of titles, now here: https://www.elsevier.com/__data/promis_misc/sd-content/books/edutxt20.xlsx. Remote users must first authenticate on the ScienceDirect platform with their NDSU credentials. Users can then register for a personal ID/Password to access Elseiver products from anywhere.
Beginning on Friday, March 20, access restrictions will be removed for all 1,150+ titles in the UMP EBC until the end of April 2020. The UMP EBC contains the Press’s scholarly output published since 2012 as well as new books and older titles as they are digitized.
Free access to research on coronaviruses, COVID-19, and the spread of communicable diseases
On March 13, 2020, the National Science and Technology Advisors from a dozen countries, including the United States, called on publishers to voluntarily agree to make their COVID-19 and coronavirus-related publications, and the available data supporting them, immediately accessible in PubMed Central (PMC) and other appropriate public repositories to support the ongoing public health emergency response efforts.
Amid the worldwide spread of COVID-19, it’s a challenging time, and our thoughts are with those affected by this disease. In support and solidarity, we are 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.
Listed books are free to read online until June 1, 2020, and journal articles are free until October 1.
The science community is working hard to address the potential health crisis brought about by the outbreak of a novel coronavirus (COVID-19). To support these critical efforts, JoVE has made its coronavirus focused content and related resources freely available.
Minitex temporary access databases
The resources below have recently been proposed for inclusion in statewide database collections in Minnesota, North Dakota, and South Dakota (Minitex). Whether or not these vendors progress into the final stages of the selection process, they have agreed to extend temporary access to these resources to the three states until June of 2020 in order to support schools, colleges, and libraries transitioning into online teaching and learning.
We thank these vendors for their support and partnership.
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