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Annual Reviews
https://www.annualreviews.org/action/showPublications
- 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.
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- A collection of our best advice on teaching online during the pandemic, downloadable for free.
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American Psychiatric Association Publishing
- Free 1 month trials to the DSM-5 on PsychiatryOnline.org
- Allows for unlimited institutional users to the DSM-5 and related DSM-5 books.
- We are also offering prorated subscription pricing, as we understand institutions may not be able to commit to a 12 month subscription at this time but may be interested in a 2-3 month subscription for example
- Contact LOUIS to have trial activated or to obtain prorated pricing.
Duke University Press
https://www.dukeupress.edu/Information-For/Customers/Response-to-COVID-19
- As institutions transition to online instruction, we can provide 90 days of complimentary electronic access to our book and journal content to support your online courses. If you would like to enable access for your institution, contact orders@dukeupress.edu.
- We would like to share our reading lists, which offer free content (included is Navigating the Threat of Pandemic).
- We are opening archival content for around 20 of our journals hosted on Project MUSE. Around five years of back content (1999 to 2004) will be freely available through June 30, 2020, for select titles. We are opening all available content for East Asian Science, Technology and Society.
- We provide remote access options on both of our content platforms. If you would like to set this up, please contact our Customer Relations team at orders@dukeupress.edu.
- Processing of payments by check may be delayed. If you are planning on sending a payment and have not yet done so, please consider sending a wire or paying by credit card. Contact orders@dukeupress.edu for more information.
EBSCO eBooks
https://www.ebsco.com/covid-19-resources
- 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.
- Gain immediate access for your students and faculty today by contacting your local EBSCO representative. Request Access
Internet Archive
https://archive.org/details/nationalemergencylibrary
JSTOR
https://about.jstor.org/covid19/
JSTOR for existing customers
https://about.jstor.org/covid19/
- Access to unlicensed collections at no cost for participating academic institutions that currently license some, but not all, JSTOR Archive and Primary Source collections.
- More than 35,000 books available at no charge for participating academic institutions and secondary schools. The number of books available through this effort is growing daily as more publishers opt in.
- LOUIS members who’ve had to close their doors can get expanded access to our journal archives through June 30th.
MIT Press eBooks
- 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. To receive free access to more than 2,770 MIT Press eBooks via MIT Press Direct, librarians may complete this webform or reach out to Emily Farrell (efarre@mit.edu, North America) or Jessica Lawrence-Hurt (jclh@mit.edu, rest of world).
- We are also working with Project MUSE and University Press Scholarship Online to expand access to backlist eBooks available on their platforms.
MIT Press existing customers
- We are gracing access for existing subscribers to content hosted on our journals, CogNet, and MIT Press Direct platforms through May 31, 2020.
Project Muse
https://about.muse.jhu.edu/resources/freeresourcescovid19/
- Project MUSE is pleased to support its participating publishers in making scholarly content temporarily available for free on our platform.
- Participating Publishers are being updated. Click here to view the latest list.
RedShelf
https://www.about.redshelf.com/redshelfresponds
- Under the label of ‘RedShelf Responds’, RedShelf is collaborating with its publishing partners to offer free access to ebooks for the remainder of the semester for currently enrolled students impacted by recent campus closings. Semester-calendar schools of authorized programs will be allowed free access to ebooks from March 16 through May 25, 2020.
- See the announcement from RedShelf
- Learn more and access ebooks
- Student portal https://studentresponse.redshelf.com/
Rittenhouse Book Distributors
https://www.rittenhouse.com/Rbd/Web/Default.aspx
- Offering a 60 day free trial access to all the eBooks on R2 Library to support your students and faculty during this time of need and demand.
ScienceDirect Textbooks for Existing Customers
https://www.elsevier.com/solutions/sciencedirect/content/book-title-lists
- The 256 textbooks currently on ScienceDirect will be automatically entitled to all active ScienceDirect customers (including those journals customers who do not currently have books) for a period of 90 days.
- Users accessing ScienceDirect through IP or remote access will be able to use these books while campuses are closed.
- Access the title list here (expected to be updated by end of day Wednesday, March 18).
University of Michigan Press Ebook Collection (UMP EBC)
- SAccess restrictions have been removed on all 1,150+ titles in the University of Michigan Press Ebook Collection (UMP EBC) until the end of April 2020.
- The UMP EBC contains the Press' scholarly output published since 2012 as well as new books and older titles as they are digitized. Strengths include political science and public (including health) policy, performing arts, classical and medieval studies, American studies, and Area studies (especially East Asian, African, and German studies). Over 200 titles in the collection are used in courses.
VitalSource
https://press.vitalsource.com/vitalsource-helps-international