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Berghahn As courses transition to online, we are offering a growing number of Open Access texts (many offered in both ePub and .pdf format) available for direct download from our website. Open access to Berghahn e-books and journals For open access journals, visit our journals site to access a number of OA articles. In addition to those BOA journals available open access, all Berghahn Journals – new issues and all back issues – will be made freely available through June 30. | |
Bezi Publishing Services Explore CEIC Data’s interactive global map covering the number of confirmed cases, deaths, recovered patients and concentration of the CoVID-19 virus. Free and updated daily. | |
Biochemical Society/Portland Press “The Biochemical Society/Portland Press has, along with several organisations/publishers, signed a joint statement on sharing research data relating to the coronavirus outbreak freely available. Papers published prior to signing the joint statement have been made freely available (paywall has been dropped) and, going forward, all papers accepted for publication will be made open access.” | |
BioOne Peer-reviewed research and research libraries continue to be trusted guides during times of scientific uncertainty. As the world navigates the COVID-19 pandemic, BioOne is proud to share the wealth of relevant content from our publishing partners to provide support for those working on crisis solutions. Visit our BioOne COVID-19 resource page. In collaboration with the Association of Research Libraries and the Greater Western Library Alliance, BioOne and our publishers have made articles related to coronavirus in the following journals available via open access through 2020:
Your patrons will find additional relevant articles related to the coronavirus and pandemics on BioOne Complete. | |
BMJ This page collects all BMJ coverage of the coronavirus outbreak from across the BMJ’s journals | |
Brill Brill have opened up access to selected e-books and e-journal articles on topics such as epidemics (past and present), crisis and containment strategies, and home-schooling and distance learning. Access is free worldwide via this dedicated Brill e-books and e-journals mini-site |
Cambridge University Press Please see the free COVID-19 collection from Cambridge University Press. Some of this content is open access anyway, the rest has been made freely available: |
CAS For those working specifically on COVID-19, we have made available publications and resources free of charge. These can be found here: CAS American Chemical Society COVID-19 link. In particular, CAS has highlighted 50,000 compounds with anti-viral properties, and this dataset can be downloaded and retained by going to the above CAS link. We have also created a Protein Target Thesaurus that may be of interest, again available for free at the above CAS link. |
Clarivate A global coronavirus resource site from Clarivate to help medical researchers and healthcare professionals access the world’s leading research and late-breaking news around the coronaviruses. |
Cochrane 2 COVID-19 Special Collections published: critical care & infection control and prevention, plus other Cochrane resources. |
Credo Reference To provide info on the Corona Virus, we are linking to our publishing partner, The Conversation, which has been posting timely, science-based articles on COVID-19 on their website and blog. These articles are fully open access. |
De Gruyter To facilitate e-learning during this Covid-19 pandemic, De Gruyter would like to let you know that RMIT now have temporary access to 75,000 DRM-free eBooks from 1650 to 2016. From Arts to Asian Studies, Classical studies to Computer science, Life science to Linguistics, De Gruyter provides unparalleled breadth and depth of content. Build essential skills, stay on top of research developments, and discover solutions within the comfort of your home. Click here to access 75,000 De Gruyter E-books, then select “publications”, then date limit (on the right – scroll down a bit) to 1658-2016. Find the title you want, click on it, then select “contents” to access the pdf download buttons for each book section. |
Duke University Press We would like to share our Duke University Press free content reading lists (included is Navigating the Threat of Pandemic). We are also opening all available content for East Asian Science, Technology and Society. |
EBSCO Working together with our information partners, EBSCO would like to alleviate the impact of COVID-19 on your library by extending free and expanded access to EBSCO academic content. We hope these resources help your students and faculty as they adjust to remote learning and researching. |
Elsevier Since January 2020 Elsevier has created a COVID-19 resource center with free information in English and Mandarin on the novel coronavirus COVID-19. You can find our Cononavirus information center here. Elsevier hereby grants permission to make all its COVID-19-related research that is available on the COVID-19 resource center – including this research content – immediately available in PubMed Central and other publicly funded repositories, such as the WHO COVID database with rights for unrestricted research re-use and analyses in any form or by any means with acknowledgement of the original source. These permissions are granted for free by Elsevier for as long as the COVID-19 resource center remains active. Access to all subscribed content on ScienceDirect continues unhindered, even for those trying to access from remote locations and should your members require any assistance in ensuring remote access please ask them to contact their account managers. Novel Coronavirus (Covid-19) Information Center for nursing and healthcare educators. NEW! Clinical Key Student Nursing until 30th June 2020. Users are required to create a personal profile to access any content on the site. New users please click on “register here” once at the Clinical Key log-in page. A personal profile also enables users to use Bookshelf (with highlighting, note-making, and bookmarking functionality), share notes/highlighting, and export notes to OneNote. Elsevier is opening up access to 256 textbooks on the ScienceDirect platform to help support institutions during the COVID-19 pandemic. These titles will be available free of charge for three months. |
Emerald We have made Emerald research on COVID-19 and the management of epidemics and pandemics free for anyone to access and have also made this available with full text and data mining rights to PubMed Central and the World Health Organisation repository. We will continue to make relevant research freely available on this site. Harvard Business Review E-books (EBSCO) As universities shift quickly to online instruction, librarians have a key role to play in supporting faculty and students. In order to help in these challenging times, EBSCO and Harvard Business Publishing are pleased to offer libraries free unlimited user access to the Harvard Business Review E-Book Subscription Collection until May 30, 2020. |
IOP Publishing IOP Publishing acknowledges the devastating impact Coronavirus (COVID-19) is having around the world and we will do whatever we can to assist researchers, medical professionals, policy makers and others who are working to address this public health emergency. As part of our response, all coronavirus relevant published and forthcoming articles in IOP journals (listed here) will be made immediately available to PubMed Central (PMC) throughout the duration of the crisis, with rights to enable text and data mining, re-use and secondary analysis. |
JAMA Network Coronavirus Disease 2019 (COVID-19) – check here for JAMA Network updates on diagnosis and treatment |
JoVE JoVE is happy to provide all of our Education video content free to use in STEM teaching efforts through June 15th. JoVE Core – isolate key scientific concepts and visualize them to maximize learning comprehension. This video textbook, available in Biology and Social Psychology, can be used as primary teaching resource or a supplement to teaching materials. JoVE Science Education – teach scientific fundamentals with this video library of simple easy-to-understand video demonstrations in 8 STEM fields. Lab Manual – bring the lab home with comprehensive, curriculum-focused videos for introductory biology lab courses. Selected items available – look for the undone padlocks When in the platform please DO NOT CLICK ON THE FOLLOWING LINK: Free access to all JoVE Science Education videos until June 15. Click here This will not enable access for our users. To support the efforts of scientists and researchers working hard to address the COVID-19 outbreak, JoVE has made its coronavirus focused JoVE research videos freely available. |
JSTOR To support our institutions during this challenging time, JSTOR and our participating publishers are making an expanded set of content freely available to our participating institutions where students have been displaced due to COVID-19. Also, access more than 35,000 e-books and a range of journals until June 30, 2020. Just select from one of the participating publishers on the landing page to access their e-books and journals through JSTOR on a variety of subjects. |
Karger Karger have created a Topic Article Package for COVID: Topic Article Package (Karger): Coronavirus (COVID-19) In January 2020, a novel coronavirus COVID-19 has resulted in the outbreak of a respiratory illness with its origin in Wuhan, China. Since then it has spread to other countries. Karger Publishers supports research in this area by providing free access to relevant articles (listed below). To enable fast access to research articles, we have signed the consensus statement by Wellcome about Sharing research data and findings relevant to the novel coronavirus (COVID-19) outbreak. Number of articles in this package: 48 All articles are freely available. Any new articles will be added to the package |
The Lancet To assist health workers and researchers working under challenging conditions to bring this outbreak to a close, The Lancet has created a Lancet Coronavirus Resource Centre. This resource brings together new 2019 novel coronavirus disease (COVID-19) content from across The Lancet journals as it is published. All content listed on this page is free to access. |
LexisNexis LexisNexis Offers Free, Comprehensive COVID-19 News Coverage and Practical Guidance Content from Law360 and Lexis Practice Advisor. Law360 covers COVID-19’s impact on the government, business and the legal profession; Lexis Practice Advisor toolkit provides guidance and insights across multiple practice areas to support decision-making and counsel on COVID-19 matters |
Library Journal To support the work of the library and publishing community as we navigate through the COVID-19 crisis, Library Journal is offering temporary free access to the digitized edition of LJ, as well as all the content on our website. |
Mark Allen Group (MAG) We would like to bring to your attention our dedicated Mark Allen Group COVID-19 page hosting any articles we have published relating to the COVID-19 virus, all of which is free to access. |
Mary Ann Liebert Mary Ann Liebert have selected a number of relevant articles from their Health Security, Telemedicine and e-Health and Genetic Engineering & Biotechnology News titles. All of these papers are, and will remain, free-to-access for the duration of this crisis. Further, they have been asked by the CDC to fast-track two papers, which are currently in process, and will be made Open Access immediately upon publication. We have selected 10 relevant articles from Health Security on coronaviruses, outbreak preparedness and response, infection control, and public health policy; these articles will be freely available through March 31, 2020 to facilitate the conversation around health security. We hope these pieces will serve as resources for the community as it works to ensure that the 2019-nCoV outbreak is fully understood and contained. Telemedicine and e-Health publishes vital academic research that addresses, answers, and highlights how we can prevent a global outbreak such as the COVID-19 coronavirus using telemedicine techniques, freely available at that link. A new survey by Genetic Engineering & Biotechnology News (GEN) reveals 35 active drug development programs in North America, Europe, and China. This list is certain to multiply in coming weeks as global health agencies, governments, and drug developers step up efforts against the SARS-CoV-2 virus. |
McGraw-Hill COVID Central will be a source of weekly updated developments and analysis in clinical medicine, public health, and industry and will be aimed at healthcare professionals, trainees and students, and librarians. It will be open to all viewers regardless of Access subscription status. As you may be aware Dr Anthony Fauci is the leading spokesperson to the US government on COVID-19 and is also one of our editors of Harrisons Principles of Internal Medicine. Once live, “COVID Central” will have daily contributions and resources contributed from across our author and specialist professional community. Included will be resources to support instructors and students on distance learning. See also the Coronavirus Interactive 3D Media Assets. |
Medicom Medical Publishers Free access to the Medicom Conference Report library. Microbiology Society We are temporarily removing the paywall from our journals’ platform. The extraordinary and global efforts made to curb the spread and impact of SARS-COV-2 mean that many microbiologists will be away from their workplaces and may find online access to resources compromised. At a time when we are counting on many in our community to help find solutions, we hope this practical step will help. |
MIT Press We have gone through our journal backfile to select relevant articles from our collection that speak to issues related to pandemics, epidemiology, and other related topics. A list of freely available MIT Press articles is being maintained and regularly updated on our blog here. With the coronavirus outbreak disrupting campus activities around the globe, 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. MIT Press Direct e-books are available on a range of subjects. Click on the “pdf” links to access specific chapters. |
NEJM NEJM is providing a collection of articles and other resources on the Coronavirus (Covid-19) outbreak, including clinical reports, management guidelines, and commentary. Editorials, perspectives and original articles can be accessed free of charge. NEJM also provides links to useful sites and Journal Watch summaries |
New York Times Free access to the most important news on The Coronavirus outbreak from the New York Times coronavirus page. |
NLM LitCovid is a curated literature hub for tracking up-to-date scientific information about COVID-19. It is the most comprehensive resource on the subject, providing a central access to 1200 (and growing) relevant articles in PubMed. The articles are updated daily and are further categorized by different research topics and geographic locations for improved access. |
OECD The OECD has just established an OECD COVID-19 portal, gathering all relevant evidence, analysis and advice on policy responses published by the Organisation. All resources that are shown, including publications normally behind access control on OECD iLibrary, have been made fully accessible for the duration of the crisis |
Ovid Ovid has created a dedicated COVID-19 site, featuring expert searches, a widget and a link to access GIDEON — Global Infectious Diseases and Epidemiology Network, plus specific resources for nurses. We will be adding additional content as it becomes available. Please note that this dedicated site, is also available in Chinese, Korean and Japanese. |
Oxford University Press With the recent coronavirus situation, Oxford University Press has made content from OUP online book resources and leading journals freely accessible to assist researchers, medical professionals, policy makers, and others who are working to address this health crisis |
PLOS PLOS blog on COVID-19. PLOS blogs offer diverse perspectives on science and medicine. Read about COVID-19. |
Project Muse Among the publishers currently opting to make content free on Project MUSE are Johns Hopkins University Press (all books and journals), Ohio State University Press (all books and journals), University of Nebraska Press (all books and journals), University of North Carolina Press (all books), Temple University Press (all books), and Vanderbilt University Press (selected books). We expect to announce additional participants and will continually update the list of publishers offering free access to content. Content that is freely available on the Project MUSE platform during the COVID-19 crisis will display a distinctive “Free” icon, different from the “OA” icon used for fully open access content on MUSE, or the familiar green checkmark that users associate with content held by their library. MUSE search results (muse.jhu.edu/search), by default, include any content to which a user has access, so will offer the researcher any relevant free, OA, or entitled articles and books. There are over 2000 open access books and a small number of fully OA journals on the MUSE platform. More information in MUSE OA content is available here. |
ProQuest Starting next week, ProQuest Ebook Central customers impacted by COVID-19 will get unlimited access to all owned titles from over 50 publishers through mid-June. This means that all licenses – including single-user and three-user models – will automatically convert to unlimited access during that period, helping librarians bridge the gap for their patrons in this rapidly changing environment. The unlimited access also applies to additional titles purchased through mid-June. No action is required by librarians to switch on unlimited access – this will be done automatically, and the transition will be seamless for users. Additionally, we have prepared a list of authoritative ProQuest COVID-19 resources we would like to share with your members about the novel coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic. ProQuest just announced the launch of a coronavirus research database in response to the rapidly growing need for authoritative content related to the novel coronavirus (COVID-19). The new cross-disciplinary resource enables researchers to search and discover full-text articles, dissertations and other content from key publishers in one place. Access the ProQuest coronavirus research database here, and input “RMIT” into the “find your library” box. A link will then appear for you to log in with your RMIT credentials and access the resource. In this time of uncertainty and disruption, ProQuest understands that libraries everywhere are looking for new ways to support student research. That’s why ProQuest is opening up access to key components of Research Companion, a resource that helps college and undergraduate university students develop the crucial critical thinking and information literacy skills they need to do scholarly research. Libraries who don’t currently subscribe to Research Companion can access video modules and assessment tools from the product at no cost through June 30. You will need to create an account on the platform. |
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Taylor and Francis Peer-reviewed research published in Taylor & Francis journals is now free to access and available for anyone to read. In addition, TandF will support researchers, journals & funders to ensure that all research findings & data relevant to this outbreak are shared rapidly & openly. TandF has provided a list of some of the most recent, relevant pandemic studies on Taylor and Francis. Taylor and Francis CEO Annie Callanan outlines how we have been working to provide the research community with free access to COVID-19 research. |
Thieme Specialist information of the Coronavirus from Thieme, free access. |
University of California In recognition of the impact of Covid-19 on campus instruction and the rise of unplanned distance learning, University of California Press is pleased to make all of our online journals content free to all through June 2020. From this link click through to University of California journal content. To access articles from each journal click on the link that says “articles”. The content is freely available from there. |
University of Chicago Press A number of articles and book reviews about coronaviruses have been published in University of Chicago Press Journals. They are now free to read on our site. Please visit our University of Chicago Press coronavirus information page for a complete list. |
U.S. National library of Medicine – NCBI |
Wiley |
Wolters Kluwer/Ovid At Wolters Kluwer we understand the unique challenges colleges and universities are facing due to the COVID-19 pandemic and want to support our customers as they move to an online learning environment. To help you make this transition, I would like to offer your institution complimentary access to a selection of products for the next sixty days. Acland’s Atlas of Human Anatomy Wolters Kluwer’s Remote Learning solutions, premium content, and productivity tools. This last one is a more general platform from where you can access the above three tools and more. |