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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.
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
Artstor - expanded access through June 30, 2021
A collection of images, documents, audio, and video files contributed by world’s museums, archives, scholars, and artists. Includes a specialized suite of tools for teaching and learning with visual materials — all rights-cleared for education and research. Expanded access through June 30, 2021 includes 3 million images from leading museums, photo archives, scholars, and artists, including many rare and important collections available nowhere else.
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.
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.
Faculty can search more than 12,400 Open Educational Resources, and copy/paste links to relevant materials into their Learning Management System (LMS) or send links to the material directly to students to access.
Faculty can also search and discover more than 225,000 DRM-free EBSCO eBooks; if they discover an e-book of interest, they can contact their librarian to discuss potentially purchasing.
JSTOR - Journal Storage (ITHAKA)
JSTOR includes academic journals across the humanities, social sciences, and sciences.
NDSU subscribes to the following archival journal collections: Arts & Sciences I, II, III, IV, VII, and VIII, as well as the Language and Literature and Life Sciences collections. For more information on collection subject coverage and title lists, please visit http://about.jstor.org/journals.
Temporary expanded coverage includes access to unsubscribed content through June 30, 2021. This includes 26 journal archives in public health, and more than 6,000 articles related to COVID-19.
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 August 31, 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.
Taylor & Francis is currently providing free access to all original research articles, case reports, editorials and reviews where it helps with understanding and treating the virus. This is based on a defined set of terms in order to support the medical response to COVID-19. Free access is being updated frequently in order to ensure that the newest literature is available rapidly after publication. A range of chapters from ebooks and etextbooks covering relevant research are also available to access free of charge.
A dedicated gateway to showcase research published in this area, including preprints, to ensure immediate access to the latest research developments.