Free access to online study resources during the COVID-19 pandemic
- Monday 6th April 2020
Resources for home study
Cambridge University Press have made their textbooks available for free:
https://www.cambridge.org/core/what-we-publish/textbooks
Gale have made a number of their research resources available, including ebooks:
The Internet Archive have created a National Emergency Library with free access to around 1.5 million titles:
https://archive.org/details/nationalemergencylibrary
JSTOR have given free access to public health journals, including psychotherapy and psychosomatics:
https://about.jstor.org/l/public-health/
JSTOR have also given free access to a range of other journals and resources:
https://about.jstor.org/covid19/expanded-access-to-collections/
Project Euclid have open access to mathematics and statistics journals:
https://projecteuclid.org/librarians/lib_prime
Project MUSE have made a huge range of journals available for free:
https://about.muse.jhu.edu/resources/freeresourcescovid19/
ProQuest have made their academic videos available for free:
https://video.alexanderstreet.com/channel/academic-video-online?pqtoken=8GFXI4Q9GII1LE7Y
ProQuest are also collaborating with a large number of publishers to offer free ebooks for libraries. Please let me know if there is anything you would like to access from this list:
https://media2.proquest.com/documents/unlimitedaccess-participatingpublishers.pdf
SAGE Publishing are giving free access to medical, social, and behavioural science articles:
https://journals.sagepub.com/coronavirus
University of California Press are giving free access to all their journals:
https://www.ucpress.edu/blog/49700/free-access-to-all-uc-press-journals-through-june-2020/
Luke Manzarpour
Librarian, NSPC
librarian@nspc.org.uk