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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
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 Thursday April 30, 2020. On that date, we will assess the need to extend this policy.
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.
De Gruyter will be moving to an upgraded platform at the end of March 2020 and providing free access on our current platform would not be prudent.
However, we are currently working on a solution for making the thousands of De Gruyter and university press partner print titles in your library’s collection available digitally for an interim period. We hope to have a solution by the end of next week. Apologies that we cannot do something sooner.
Should you have any questions in the meantime, please do not hesitate to reach out to your usual De Gruyter contact.
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 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.
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.
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.
A step up from some of our current EBSCOhost database offerings. Multidisciplinary.
Multidisciplinary Academic Databases
This suite combines highly acclaimed e-resources for academic skills-building, standardized test preparation and lifelong learning, with enhanced computer skills courses, job searching and career development opportunities.
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