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COVID-19 Related Resources

Links to current updated news on COVID-19:

Many content providers are offering free access to e-content collections to help you maintain online services during the COVID-19 crisis. OCLC is actively partnering with global content providers to ensure continued access through OCLC cataloging, discovery, and resource sharing services. They will continue to update a growing list of available content, listed below, including recommended options to access this content through OCLC services. (Source: OCLC at https://www.oclc.org/en/covid-19.html) and click here for additional resources.

1science: 1science has created the Coronavirus Research Hub
American Academy of Pediatrics: AAP is fast-tracking and publishing the latest research and articles related to COVID-19 for free.
American Association of Advancement of Science (AAAS) - Science Journals: The American Association for the Advancement of Science and the Science family of journals are applying formidable resources to keep the scientific community and the public well informed on the coronavirus pandemic. Science, published by AAAS, has shared research findings and made data swiftly available over recent weeks to spur scientific advances, outline public health opportunities to slow the spread of COVID-19, and help protect the wellbeing of people across the globe. The journal has accelerated its publishing practices governing the release of research papers on coronavirus and urged scientists to post their submitted studies on preprint sites, all the while preserving the peer-review process to ensure the validity of the research published in the journals.
American Chemical Society: As a leading scientific society and publisher of scientific research and information, ACS is committed to helping combat the global COVID-19 pandemic. Browse ACS's resources and initiativesand share them with colleagues, friends and family.
American College of Physicians/Annals of Internal Medicine: The American College of Physicians is making the information and its collected national resources to support physicians as they respond to the SARS-CoV-2/Covid-19 pandemic. Use the link to the website in Column D. Use the menu to jump to specific sections, or read through for a comprehensive overview of care.
American Economic Association: The AEA is providing open access to all journal content on the AEA website through June 2020 to overcome any difficulties some may have accessing library subscriptions during these challenging times.
American Mathematical Society: The American Mathematical Society is making four AMS publications freely available for classroom use or research.
American Medical Association: JAMA and related AMA journals related information is now open access
American Physical Society: APS is committed to doing its part to slow the spread of the coronavirus, while continuing to serve our members, customers, and broader community, as well as ensuring the health and safety of our employees. Therefore, APS staff are currently at home, performing their regular work in support of APS's mission. Please be assured that we will continue to do all that we can in support of you and the physics enterprise.
American Psychiatric Association: With COVID-19 evolving rapidly across the world, APA’s Committee on Psychiatric Dimensions of Disasters and the APA’s Council on International Psychiatry compiled the following list of resources for psychiatrists. The resources cover not only the physical impact of the coronavirus, but on its potential mental health and psychosocial issues and responses. The resources also include a section on telepsychiatry, to prepare for the possibility of isolation and/or quarantine.
American Psychological Association: APA's Science Directorate answers questions being received during the COVID-19 outbreak and offers resources to help psychological scientists and students deal with the impact of the coronavirus on their research and academic work.
American Society for Microbiology: Stay up to date on the rapidly changing COVID-19 pandemic. Get the facts from a coronavirus expert, download tips to stay healthy and reduce transmission and learn what ASM is doing to help.
Annual Reviews: Annual Reviews is temporarily removing access control to content on Monday, March 13-April 30, 2020
ASTM International: ASTM International is providing no-cost public access to important ASTM standards used in the production and testing of personal protective equipment - including face masks, medical gowns, gloves, and hand sanitizers - to support manufacturers, test labs, health care professionals, and the general public as they respond to the global COVID-19 public health emergency.

BioOne:In collaboration with the Association of Research Libraries, BioOne and their publishers have made articles related to coronavirus in the following journals available via open access through 2020

Bloomsbury: With the continuing lockdown across the globe we want to let you know that we remain open. While we are working remotely, we’re still here and committed to providing reading inspiration and a wealth of incredible books to help you pass the time. These are all available to purchase from our website, as well as from other book retailers. You can currently buy directly from us with an increased discount on thousands of our titles, new and old, with 30% off our print books and 45% off our ebooks, and free postage for US orders over $25. As you stay safe indoors, now is the time to discover a great book – one that will educate, inform, inspire, comfort or simply help you to escape. We know you’ll find one here at Bloomsbury.com.

Brepols: As the Corona virus (COVID-19) continues to spread across Belgium and Europe, Brepols has introduced precautionary measures to ensure the safety of our customers, authors, staff, and their families, thus cooperating to control the spread of the virus. From Monday 16 March 2020, a limited number of employees will report to work at the Brepols offices and warehouse. Others will work from home (teleworking) to handle copy-editing, book and e-book production, database and print distribution. This arrangement allows our employees to work from safe spaces, limiting contact with others, as recommended by our health services. Staff members will be avoiding unnecessary travel. Instead, we will take full advantage of our excellent video conferencing tools to remain in touch with each other and with our clients, authors, and collaborators. We wish you the best and are available to answer any questions that you may have during this period.

Brill: Brill has opened up books and articles on topics such as public health, distance learning, crisis research. If any new related content is published with Brill, it will be added to their collection.

CABI: CABI offers content for study, research and practice of national, regional and international public health

Cambridge University Press: Cambridge University Press is allowing Free access to the html version of all 2,000 textbooks in the Cambridge Core, CCO, CHO, and Elements collection. This is an extensive collection containing textbooks for almost all disciplines, be it language, computer science or mathematics. Free access is available through the end of May 2020. See https://www.cambridge.org/us/academic/covid-19-resources-and-information... for more details on activating this resource with Cambridge University Press.

Canadian Science Publishers: All current and future coronavirus and related research published in Canadian Science Publishing’s (CSP) journals is freely accessible.

Cell Press: Cell Press is sharing information about SARS-CoV-2 (also referred to as 2019-nCoV), the coronavirus that causes COVID-19. On this website in Column D, you'll find their policies for submitting papers related to COVID-19, as well as content about the outbreak as it appears in Cell Press journals. Cell Press also recommend visiting Elsevier’s information center for more free resources in English and Mandarin on coronavirus.

Cengage/Gale: Gale has opened up a collection of 9 ebooks on how to transition from physical to online education.

CNKI: Online publishing platform for achievements of CNKI project and the most comprehensive gateway of knowledge of China. Many articles are open during this global pandemic.

CSIRO: CSIRO is involved in key research in the rapid global response to the novel coronavirus outbreak. We aim to pass on as much accurate information as we can, as quickly as possible regarding this research. To do this we have sourced updates and quotes from our experts about their work and the latest developments in the outbreak.
De Gruyter: De Gruyter will be opening up a large part of its own print titles and of titles from partnering presses on the De Gruyter platform. This is still a work in progress.
Directory of Open Access Books: DOAB aggregates records for Open Access Books so libraries can integrate the directory into their online catalogues, helping scholars and students to discover the books.
Directory of Open Access Journals: DOAJ is a community-curated online directory that indexes and provides access to high quality, open access, peer-reviewed journals.
Doody's Core Titles: This COVID-19 book list has been assembled by Doody’s editorial team from information available in the Doody’s Review Service™ database. Although access to this database is typically restricted to paid subscribers to Doody’s Review Service, we are making information on these books freely available to the public in the hopes that one or more of them might prove helpful in providing the needed evidence, research, knowledge, or support that frontline workers need to provide the best possible care to their patients.
Duke University Press: University press is extending grace access through the end of May for customers with not-yet-renewed existing 2019 electronic holdings. (This extension applies to content hosted on both read.dukeupress.edu and projecteuclid.org.)
EBSCO: EBSCO is making more and more resources freely available and expanding access to EBSCO and partner content. Check back on their website in Column D for a growing collection of content offers, webinars and other resources designed to help library staff provide their students, faculty, researchers and patrons with expanded access to online resources — the e-resources libraries have been making part of their collection development decisions for decades — that are now in critical demand.
Edward Elgar Publishing: Edward Elgar Publishing has been developing a library of resources for teaching in the fields they publish and they are offering free access to pertinent content through their Elgaronline digital platform.
Elsevier: All textbooks on ScienceDirect are now free to access for all institutions subscribing to ScienceDirect. If you login through the University Libraries, you will have access to the textbooks. Elsevier focuses mainly on health, science, mathematics and law. Elsevier is making nearly 20,000 related articles free to access on ScienceDirect. These articles are also available to download with rights for full text and data mining, re-use and analyses for as long as needed. Under the Research tab on the website in Column D, you will find the latest early-stage and peer-reviewed research on COVID-19 from journals including The Lancet and Cell Press.

Emerald Publishing: Emerald is making these resources freely available to access. Whilst these materials do not only relate to the current clinical challenges of Novel Coronavirus, they may provide relevant context to how the world reacted to other previous Coronavirus outbreaks (notably SARS) and epidemics. The scope of research topics range from areas such as legal and ethical lessons from SARS in 2003, to public health approaches to global issues, and impacts of SARS on tourism.
Érudit: The response from the journals that we disseminate with an embargo to our proposal for temporary free access has been very positive. It should be noted that only the last 12 months of publication of these journals normally have restricted access, the archives being offered in open access.
Articles available in temporary free access are marked with a green padlock on our platform. The list of participating journals, which will evolve over the next few days, is available at this address: https://bit.ly/journals_covid19.
Frontiers: Frontiers is a leading Open Access Publisher and Open Science Platform
Future Science Group: Discover the latest updates on the ongoing novel coronavirus outbreak in the ‘COVID-19 Hub’, powered by Infectious Diseases Hub and our partner journals and eCommunities across the Future Science Group family.
GeoScience World: To help support online learning and remote research for the remainder of the semester, the following GSW book publishers have extended public access to all of their ebooks through June 30, 2020.
HeinOnline: Hein is offering free campus-wide and remote access options to HeinOnline Academic for the remainder of the current semester and all of next semester. You must activate access here: Send an email to: marketing@wshein.com
Hindawi: Hindawi remains open and committed to sharing findings related to COVID-19. As well as their commitment to ensuring accepted peer reviewed research is published during this time, we have introduced a fast-track workflow for papers submitted on coronavirus/COVID-19 which are suitable for publication. To this end, we have signed up to the Wellcome statement on sharing data and findings related to COVID-19 and fully support the commitments laid out by it.
IEEE: IEEE realizes that many IEEE Xplore users may be directly or indirectly engaged in the global fight against COVID-19. To help researchers understand and manage the COVID-19 pandemic, IEEE has identified a collection of articles that may help such efforts. The collection is completely free to access for the duration of the crisis with additional reuse rights including text and data mining and analysis. IEEE is monitoring new developments and will update the collection periodically. If you are unable to access an article that may be important in addressing COVID-19, please contact IEEE at onlinesupport@ieee.org.
Infobase: In an effort to help provide access to our database products for institutions that may not have access or funds at this point, Infobase is offering free trial access to the following databases through 4/30/20 for our Academic Virtual Classroom. Let me know if you have any questions or issues accessing the trial. Be well and stay safe.
International Monetary Fund: IMF offers a policy tracker which summarizes the key economic responses governments are taking to limit the human and economic impact of the COVID-19 pandemic as of end-March 2020. The tracker includes 186 economies. More countries will be added soon.
IOP Publishing: IOP Publishing acknowledges the devastating impact Coronavirus (COVID-19) is having around the world and they will do whatever they can to assist researchers, medical professionals, policy makers and others who are working to address this public health emergency. As part of their response, all relevant published and forthcoming articles in their journals 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.
JoVE: Temporary free access of Science Education videos through June 15 for STEM teaching
JSTOR: JSTOR and its publisher partners are making an expanded set of content available to participating institutions through June 30, 2020. Visit about.jstor.org/covid19 to register for this free access and to view additional resources that are openly available to everyone.
Kanopy: At Kanopy, we recognize that public and academic libraries are facing administrative and financial difficulties in light of the health and safety precautions associated with COVID-19. Our thoughts are with all those affected by the virus. One thing that remains unwavering is Kanopy’s commitment to helping our library partners get through this period.
As of March 13, 2020, Kanopy has worked with several content partners to offer a broad selection of films for streaming at no cost for the next 30 days.
Karger: Karger is making all published Coronavirus / COVID-19 articles freely available until the end of 2020, in order to support current research initiatives and community health. To make them easy to find, Karger has grouped them in a “Coronavirus Topic Article Package”, which can be found on their website in Column D.
Kluwer Law International: Kluwer Law International's primary goal during this time is to be proactive regarding the health and safety of customers and employees. They will remain committed to providing the same high level of service you have come to expect without interruption.
Knowledge Unlatched: Knowledge Unlatched (KU) makes scholarly content freely available to everyone and contributes to the further development of the Open Access (OA) infrastructure.
LexisNexis: COVID-19 continues to impact the lives of people all around the world. Financial markets are in flux, travel restrictions are in effect, and many are struggling to find basic household supplies while people are stockpiling for potential quarantine. Our interactive charts provide insight into the way coronavirus is developing across the global media landscape in near real time.
Macmillan Learning: MacMillan Learning is pleased to announce we have partnered with VitalSource and RedShelf to provide free access to our academic (not trade) e-Books on both platforms through the remainder of the spring 2020 semester and the winter 2020 quarter.
Mark Allen Group: The Mark Allen Group has collected all articles on the current coronavirus outbreak from across MA Healthcare journals. All articles are freely available.
Mary Ann Liebert: Liebert has made, and will continue to make, all of their COVID-19 research content available for free.
McGraw-Hill Education: McGraw-Hill is providing free access, training and support for McGraw-Hill Connect and ALEKS digital learning platforms to instructors and students who need to urgently move to an online format for their Spring 2020 courses.
MDPI: MDPI is a pioneer in scholarly open access publishing and has supported academic communities since 1996.
Microbiology Society: The Microbiology Society is a membership charity for scientists interested in microbes, their effects and their practical uses.
It is one of the largest microbiology societies in Europe with a worldwide membership based in universities, industry, hospitals, research institutes and schools offering all open access content.
Midwest Tape: The hoopla Digital team has created a special Bonus Borrows collection of over 1,100 of our top titles, including new releases and hoopla favorites. This will help our partner Libraries continue to provide high-quality content and resources to their community, at no cost to their systems.
MIT Press: 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.
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).
New England Journal of Medicine: A Collection of articles and other resources on the Coronavirus (Covid-19) outbreak, including clinical reports, management guidelines, and commentary.
OAIster (OCLC): Approximately 3,500 references to coronaviruses and 62 references referencing COVID-19 specifically, which all are open content and have links to the full text content.
OECD: For the next few months, all content related to the global coronavirus crisis is fully accessible for all users.
Oxford University Press: Free access to OUP resources on coronavirus and related topics:
With the recent coronavirus situation, Oxford University Press has made content from online resources and leading journals freely accessible to assist researchers, medical professionals, policy makers, and others who are working to address this potential health crisis.
Paperity: Paperity is the first multi-disciplinary aggregator of Open Access journals and papers,
PLOS: Public Library Of Science is a nonprofit, Open Access publisher empowering researchers to accelerate progress in science and medicine by leading a transformation in research communication.
Project MUSE: Project MUSE is pleased to support its participating publishers in making scholarly content temporarily available for free on their platform. MUSE expects to announce additional participants and will continually update the list of publishers offering free access to content by visiting the website in Column D. Project MUSE has two open access collections available in the WorldCat knowledge base.
ProQuest: Unlimited Access to Ebook Central Holdings - https://www.proquest.com/blog/pqblog/2020/Coronavirus-Impacted-Libraries...
PubMed Central: Content metadata is being added to PubMed Central from publishers, CDC and various government agencies.
Royal Society of Chemistry: All stories related to the coronavirus pandemic are free to access on the Chemistry World website and can be found here: https://www.chemistryworld.com/coronavirus/100140.tag.
Sabinet: Given the unknown variables surrounding the coronavirus (COVID-19) outbreak, many businesses across South Africa are having to evaluate their preparedness for the potential impact it may have on their operations, supply chain and employee well-being.
Sage Publishing: SAGE believes in the power of the social and behavioral sciences to convert the best medical research into policies, practices, and procedures to improve and even save lives. This collection includes the latest medical research from SAGE related to the virus as well as top social and behavioral research to help individuals, communities, and leaders make the best decisions on dealing with the outbreak and its consequences. A full list of these and other related freely available articles is also available.
SciELO: Scientific Electronic Library Online is a Program of the São Paulo Research Foundation (FAPESP) for the cooperative publishing of open access journals on the Internet.
Society for Industrial and Applied Mathematics: The SIAM Epidemiology Collection, focused on disease modeling, pandemics, and vaccines, is freely available to all for one year. SIAM Journal on Mathematics of Data Science (epubs.siam.org/simods) continues to be freely available this year during its introductory launch period
SpringerOpen: 2019 Novel Coronavirus of pneumonia in Wuhan, China: emerging attach and management strategies https://clintransmed.springeropen.com/articles/10.1186/s40169-020-00271-z https://www.springernature.com/gp/researchers/campaigns/coronavirus/coro...
Taylor & Francis: Taylor & Francis has published a microsite that aggregates and organises all recently published COVID-19 research in one portal, including all relevant research articles and book chapters. All breaking research relating to COVID-19 is freely accessible in support of global efforts in diagnosis, treatment, prevention and further research into the virus. New research will be added to the microsite as soon as it breaks.
The British Medical Journal (BMJ): This website collects all BMJ coverage of the coronavirus outbreak from across the BMJ's journals and learning resources. All articles and resources are freely available.
The Metropolitan Opera: New York’s Metropolitan Opera House will broadcast events as part of its “Live in HD” series. They’ll start at 7:30 p.m. ET and be available on the homepage, metopera.org, for 20 hours. Next week: “Wagner Week,” with five days of performance of the 19th-century German composer’s work.
The Royal Society: The Royal Society journals are making all research findings and data relevant to the covid-19 pandemic immediately open access
The University of Chicago Press: The University of Chicago Press has made articles and book reviews about coronaviruses free to read on their site.
Thieme Publishers: Thieme Group starts to provide free access to specialist information on the coronavirus and other respiratory viruses. As an international provider of medical information and services, Thieme aims to support physicians worldwide in the fight against the further spread of the virus.
University of California Press: In recognition of the impact of coronavirus 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.
University of Michigan Press: University of Michigan Press will make all content in the University of Michigan Press Ebook Collection (UMP EBC) free-to-read for the remainder of the academic term. 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. Note they will be free-to-read, not to download, during this time.
Wiley: Wiley is also making a collection of journal articles and our book chapters on coronavirus research freely available to the global scientific community. On workdays, newly published articles are made free within 24 hours of publication. Articles published after 14:00 (EST) on Friday will be made free the following Monday. https://novel-coronavirus.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/
Wolters Kluwer: Wolters Kluwer is making their expert solutions available to help their customers, partners, and communities. Here are resources being made available: http://healthclarity.wolterskluwer.com/coronavirus-resources.html - https://ajnoffthecharts.com/ --http://tools.ovid.com/coronavirus/
World Bank: World Bank is coordinating with partners to accelerate the international response and support countries to manage the global pandemic.
World Scientific: World Scientific is making content information available on their website.

Additional Resources

ABDO : ABDO Books is offering free distance learning resources available through June 2020.
Accucoms: Accucoms works closely with several publishers that have signed the Welcome Trust-coordinated initiative for making COVID-19 content freely available to help the pandemic.
Amelica: The AmeliCA/Redalyc alliance reaffirms its commitment to Open Access and continues to develop technology which it is now applied to the semantic dissemination of articles published on topics of interest in epidemiology, pandemics and related topics.
American Booksellers Association: The American Booksellers Association is monitoring the coronavirus outbreak (COVID-19) and will provide event updates and resources for booksellers here on an ongoing basis.
American Diabetes Association: The American Diabetes Association is committed to helping our community respond to diabetes and coronavirus. More than ever, we need to stay connected because we’re connected for life.
American Geosciences Institute: The American Geosciences Institute (AGI) is providing free individual access to its Glossary of Geology Online Service through June 30, 2020 in order to assist students, educators and other geoscience professionals who may be forced to sequester at home due to the spread of COVID-19.
American Hospital Association: Since the COVID-19 outbreak began, the American Hospital Association has worked closely with the CDC, and other federal, state and local partners to respond to this challenge and to make sure hospitals and health systems have the most up-to-date information.
American Institute of Physics: To support global research during the COVID-19 pandemic, AIP Publishing has made this collection of articles on infectious diseases, epidemics, computational epidemiology, and pandemics free to read.
American Library Association : A pandemic is an outbreak of a disease that occurs over a wide geographic area and affects an exceptionally high proportion of the population. (Merriam-Webster Online). ALA provides information about preparing for a pandemic, including library-specific policy suggestions and more universal resources on pandemic education, prevention and preparation. Some of the resources are specific to influenza outbreaks but can be used more universally to help educate and inform decisions on pandemic prevention and preparedness.
American Library Association - ALA Editions: In response to the need to support increased remote access to information during the COVID-19 outbreak, ALA Editions | ALA Neal-Schuman is making materials easier to access through the following promotions. Institutions interested in offers outside the ALA Store should contact their vendor representative directly.
ALA Store: ALA Editions | ALA Neal-Schuman e-book titles are available at 50% off the list price with the coupon code EBPP20 through June 30, 2020. Offer good towards online purchases at alastore.ala.org and does not apply to print/e-book bundles. Add code EBPP20 during checkout to receive discount.
American Physiological Society: Articles discussing Covid‐19, coronavirus, SARS and other related research will be freely accessible as part of their Coronavirus‐related Collection. The collection will continue to grow as relevant content is identified and new contributions on these topics are accepted.
American Public Health Association: The American Public Health Association is urging the public health community to share science-based information with the public and speaking out for outbreak response funding and support.
American Society for Clinical Investigation: Read the collection of COVID-19-related articles published in the JCI family of journals.
American Society of Health-Systems Pharmacists: The American Society of Health-Systems Pharmacists is closely monitoring developments related to coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19). The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) describes the virus as the cause of an outbreak of respiratory illness first reported in Wuhan, China.
Pharmacists play a key role as patient care providers and in implementing infection control procedures.
Ars Aequi: The monthly journal and online platform Ars Aequi is now available for remote access through EZProxy.
Associated Press: The latest news on the Covid-19 outbreak.
Association of American Publishers: AAP is pulling together a list of publisher solutions through an equally robust variety of print, digital, and audiobook business models. Nevertheless, as the situation around COVID-19 continues to press demand, many leaders are doing more to assist avid book readers, teachers, students, researchers and medical professionals to obtain literature and resources, including as to the novel coronavirus itself.
Berghahn: Berghahn will be making access to all journals available through June 30, 2020.
BibliU: BibliU is offering to digitise core and supplementary material for institutions. To match the needs of individual institutions, the offer includes: ‍‍ two months of free access to core and supplementary textbooks with participating publishers
all access provided by BibliU’s learning platform which integrates with any LMS, SSO or Library systems
flexible purchasing models: title by title, PDA or EBA
optional free access to wellness and study skills collections
BioCentury: BioCentury launched its new COVID-19 Resource Center which replaces what was the company's Coronavirus Collection. The COVID-19 Resource Center is a free portal for the biomedical community to aid in the development of countermeasures and to help companies navigate the business impacts of the crisis.
Bloomberg: The latest news on the Covid-19 outbreak.
Bloomberg Law: Bloomberg Law today announced that it is offering 30 days' complimentary access to its platform to pro bono attorneys who are providing services to those most in need as a result of the novel coronavirus.
Bookshare: As communities, schools, and families contend with COVID-19 (coronavirus), we know educators and parents are trying to figure out how to continue educating students during school closures.
Bookshare can help.
Bristol University Press: BUP has announced a package of measures aimed at supporting research communities by making access to content as easy as possible.
Bulletin of the World Health Organization: The Bulletin is a fully open-access journal with no article-processing charges. All articles are available under the Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 IGO licence (CC BY 3.0 IG0) and are freely available online.
BVS Salud (Brazil): Updates on research of Covid-19
Chinese Journal of Lung Cancer: Coming Soon
Clarivate Analytics: Clarivate takes their global citizenship role very seriously and their response includes the launch of a global resource site to help medical researchers and healthcare professionals access the world’s leading research and late-breaking news around the coronaviruses.
Copyright Alliance: As everyone looks to find balance and a “new normal” in light of Coronavirus concerns, there are a number of resources being offered by the copyright community to make life, work, leisure, and educating children just a bit easier, and they are listed below.
Copyright Clearance Center: CCC recognizes publishing and information organizations for contributing to the common good by providing access to relevant science, news and educational content related to COVID-19 and the novel Coronavirus causing it.
Cortellis: Cortellis has mad articles in this collection are from BioWorld’s ongoing coverage of the COVID-19 coronavirus outbreak.
Crossref: Crossref has an opened its APIs to collect data that might be related to COVID-19. They have also made a free data file of the public elements from Crossref’s 112.5 million metadata records.
The file (65GB, in JSON format) is available via Academic Torrents here: https://doi.org/10.13003/83B2GP
Digital Science: Coming Soon
Dimensions: Datasets and clinical trials from Dimensions that are related to COVID-19 are being made freely available. The content has been exported from Dimensions using a query in the openly accessible Dimensions application, which you can access at the website in Column D.
DK: DK is providing information on what you need to know regarding travel during the coronavirus / COVID-19 pandemic
Docuseek: Coming Soon
DSI/AllThatStats: Johns Hopkins' entire Corona database can now be accessed and further evaluated within the DSI web databases, updated every two hours
EDP Sciences: In light of the COVID-19 pandemic, as a publisher which has always put the academic community at the forefront of everything we do, we have decided to open our journals content from 2018-2020 so it is freely available for all to read.
eLife: eLife and COVID-19: Keeping communications open with online research talks.
EMBO Press: EMBO Press is a signatory of the publisher commitment to make all COVID-19-related manuscripts, and the available source data immediately accessible by encouraging posting on preprint servers, by sharing the information directly with WHO and by Open Access publication of all COVID-19 related papers on the journal webpages and PubMed Central.
European Commission: The European Commission is coordinating a common European response to the outbreak of COVID-19. They are taking resolute action to reinforce our public health sectors and mitigate the socio-economic impact in the European Union. They are mobilizing all means at their disposal to help their Member States coordinate their national responses and are providing objective information about the spread of the virus and effective efforts to contain it.
European Respiratory Soceity: The ERS resource area brings together information about the outbreak and COVID-19 content from ERS and ELF as it is published. All content listed on this page is free to access.
Eurosurveillance: Europe's journal on infectious disease surveillance, epidemiology, prevention and control is making articles freely available on their website.
F1000 Research Limited: F1000Research is an Open Research publishing platform for scientists, scholars and clinicians offering rapid publication of articles and other research outputs without editorial bias. All articles benefit from transparent peer review and editorial guidance on making all source data openly available.
Facet Publishing: As many professionals are adjusting to working remotely and relying more on digital resources, Facet Publishing has made chapters from Jane Secker and Chris Morrison’s Copyright and E-learning, 2nd edition, openly available to help educators, learning technologists and other professionals who are suddenly being called upon to provide online learning. Read the authors' guidance on how to make the most of this content in a time of crisis.
HarperCollins Publishers: During this unprecedented time, while children and parents are at home and we’re all practicing social distancing, HarperCollins brings books and authors to kids of all ages through Harper at Home online initiatives.
Harvard Business Review: Special Coverage of the Coronavirus and helping provide information during this pandemic.
Healio: The latest news on the novel coronavirus outbreak, including updated COVID-19 case counts and information about the global public health response and emerging research.
Healthcare Infection Society: The Healthcare Infection Society is acutely aware of the potential of the impact of COVID-19 on the professional workloads and well-being of IPC specialists. In light of this, we are adjusting our activities and levels of our communications with members.
Independent Publishers Group: IPG Continues to Serve Booksellers, Publishers, and Readers Amid COVID-19 Crisis.
Index of Medieval Art: In recognition of the challenges faced by students, faculty, and researchers now working on line in response to the COVID-19 pandemic, the Index of Medieval Art at Princeton University has made its online database open-access until June 1, 2020. As always, the database can be accessed at https://theindex.princeton.edu/.
IntechOpen: We pride ourselves on our belief that scientific progress is generated by collaboration, that the playing field for scientific research should be leveled globally, and that research conducted in a democratic environment, with the use of innovative technologies, should be made available to anyone.
International Publishers Association: The COVID-19 Pandemic, and the urgent measures being taken by governments around the world to contain it, are having a huge impact on many aspects of daily life. With schools closing, urgent research required and many people asked to stay at home, publishers around the world have been stepping forward to do their bit.
JMIR Publishers: JMIR Publications is one of the leading open access digital health research publisher.
John Libbey Eurotext: Faced with the unprecedented crisis linked to the numerous cases of human infections caused by the new coronavirus (COVID-19),
John Libbey takes action and opens access to all of its content.
Jones & Bartlett Learning: Jones & Bartlett Learning has a Public Health Blog on Covid-19.
Kahoot: Kahoot is a tool for quizzing students in online learning. For affected universities the full version of Kahoot is free until the end of the semester. Educators may request an account directly at Kahoot.
Kortext: Kortext, working closely with major academic publishers and Jisc, have responded to the campus closures across universities by launching the most comprehensive, sector wide programme, to ensure students are able to access their core university textbooks.
The Free Student eTextbook Programme or FSTP is available to all 2.7m UK and Irish students across 180 universities, supporting all courses and all years for the remainder of the semester.
Library Journal: Library Journal Offers Temporary Free Access to All Digital Content During COVID-19 Crisis
Life Science Alliance: Life Science Alliance is an international, open-access, editorially independent, and peer-reviewed journal launched by an alliance of three preeminent scientific organizations: EMBO, Rockefeller University, and Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory.
Lumen Learning: Amid all this disruption and uncertainty, the Lumen Learning Team stands ready to assist with any rapid transition institutions and educators may be making to online learning, in order to reduce risk and slow the pace of transmission.
medRxiv: medRxiv has collected preprints on the Covid-19 outbreak.
National Geographic Learning, a Cengage Company: National Geographic Learning is providing all U.S. K-12 teachers with free access to Cengage’s learning platforms and eBooks. Cengage is extending access for current digital users and providing training and support for educators transitioning to online teaching.
NISO: The information community as a whole is feeling the pressure of delivering services during the current health crisis created by the presence of COVID-19. Like so many others, NISO staff are working to support our members as they ensure access to information resources and the rapid distribution of knowledge. At the same time, we realize the importance of maintaining good practices with regard to preserving everyone’s health.
National Theatre Live: The National Theatre in London will begin broadcasting a play every Thursday on its YouTube channel, starting April 2 at 2 p.m. Eastern. The videos will be available to stream a week after they launch. The first production slated to air is Richard Bean’s “One Man, Two Guvnors,” starring James Corden, followed by adaptations of Charlotte Brontë’s “Jane Eyre” and Robert Louis Stevenson’s “Treasure Island.”
Ohio State University Press: For the duration of this crisis, all Ohio State University Press monographs, and the linguistics textbook language files, will be open and free to use through the Ohio State University Libraries’ Institutional Repository, The Knowledge Bank (https://kb.osu.edu/).
Paratext: Paratext is allowing free access to the United States Documents Masterfile, a resource for the study of United States documents, publications, and federally-funded research reports from 1774 to the present day through June 30, 2020.
Pearson: More than 300 million students worldwide are having their education disrupted by the spread of Coronavirus. Schools and universities haven’t faced this level of disruption in generations, but unlike any time in the past, we have the ability to continue education even when schools close. Learners, teachers and families are at the heart of everything Pearson does and we are committed to helping everyone have positive learning experiences, whether online or in school.
In this uncertain environment, it’s important that learning continues, even if it can’t happen in person. That’s why we’re providing access to expert faculty, best practices, and other online learning resources for people who are studying, teaching or working remotely. We’ll be updating this site regularly with even more helpful resources.
Penguin Random House: Penguin Random House has enabled virtual learning environments and livestreamed story times for their authors and readers, as well as for educators, librarians, and booksellers to support schools and public libraries forced to close by the escalating COVID-19 outbreak.
Perusall: Course affected by COVID-19? Publishers now offering free textbooks through Perusall this spring
PNAS - Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the USA: Proceedings of the National Academy of the Sciences is an authoritative source of high-impact, original research that broadly spans the biological, physical, and social sciences. PNAS commits to immediately and freely sharing research data and findings relevant to the novel coronavirus (COVID-19) outbreak.
Radiological Society of North America: The RSNA has an expanding collections of articles on COVID-19 research on their website.
Répertoire International de Littérature Musicale (RILM - MGG): As the impact from COVID-19 grows daily, affecting libraries, teachers, students, and other music researchers, RILM is offering temporary access for non-subscribing institutions to the following full-text resources until 31 May 2020:
Research Gate: ResearchGate can help by providing products and tools to help connect researchers with the publications, data, and other researchers they need to advance their work and combat COVID-19.
Redshelf: RedShelf is providing free access to digital textbooks (to students from nonprofit, semester-based colleges & universities) through May 25.
RCNi: Free COVID-19 clinical articles and learning modules for nurses and frontline NHS staff caring for COVID-19 patients. This free clinical resource contains peer-reviewed and evidence-based articles and learning modules which address some of the areas of care that COVID-19 patients may require.
Rockefeller University Press: Coming Soon
S&P Global: S&P Global has created a collection of content includes our analyses and insights on how coronavirus may impact public health, the global economy, and commodity markets as the situation develops.
Scholastic: Scholastic is offering free online courses through their “Learning from Home” free hub along with daily projects “to keep kids reading, thinking, and growing” for families, educators, and students.
SCITRUS: Coming Soon
Scribd: This online library, containing ebooks, audiobooks and magazine articles, is making all of its content accessible for free for 30 days.
Simon & Schuster: Simon & Schuster (S&S) is providing resources and support as booksellers and educators navigate distance learning and bookselling in the weeks ahead.
SoftChalk, the education company that provides the premier online lesson creation and student interaction tool, is offering assistance to academic institutions and organizations to help educators meet the demands created by school closings and the temporary shift to online course delivery during the COVID-19 threat. SoftChalk is offering free access to SoftChalk Cloud from now through May 31, 2020.
STM: As the situation with Covid-19 continues to develop rapidly, STM’s members have been responding to the global health epidemic by making relevant research quickly and freely available.
Teacher Created Materials: Teacher Created Materials (TCM) offers free teacher-approved resources for at-home learning. The materials are designed to help students solidify the concepts they learn in school, and equip them for learning at home.
The Association of University Presses' : The University Press community has many resources to offer scholars, students, and every reader during this time of global pandemic.
Check out suggested reading for understanding pandemics and public health, as well as one for escaping the news when you need a break. We’re also collecting information on what university presses are offering to support access to learning and research resources during a time when many campuses are closed.
The Chronicle of Higher Education: The Chronicle’s key coverage of how this worldwide crisis affected college campuses.
The Company of Biologists: PrePrint and published articles are freely available on their website.
The Journal: In response to the number of states, districts and schools that are shuttering schools to students over the next several weeks in response to fears about the Novel Coronavirus (COVID-19), education technology companies have stepped forward to help educators reach students in virtual ways. In many cases, the companies are making their paid services free through the rest of the school year; in other cases, they're lifting limits to services and/or adding premium features to what's free.
The Lancet: To assist health workers and researchers working under challenging conditions to bring this outbreak to a close, The Lancet has created a 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 of our COVID-19 content is free to access.
UK Publishers Association : The Publishers Association will update this web page on an ongoing basis to link to the latest government advice for businesses relating to Coronavirus (COVID-19), as well as relevant announcements and resources of relevance to the publishing industry.
Vital Source: VitalSource and Publishers to Provide Free Access to eTextbooks to Students Affected by COVID-19 Campus Closures.
W.W. Norton: W.W. Norton is focused on getting instructors up and running (meeting them where they are and informing them of their resources, offering webinars, etc.), informing book-only adopters about adaptive/engaging tools like InQuizitive and how they can help keep students engaged during this period and of course, offering an unparalleled level of support. W.W. Norton books and resources, W.W. Norton is also hosting numerous discipline-specific webinars to help instructors in their transition to online teaching.
Westchester Publishing Services: On Thursday, March 19th, Westchester Publishing Services gathered a panel of our partners in the industry to share about what they’re seeing in their markets, methods for successfully adapting to working from home, and more.
WikiJournal User Group: The WikiJournal User Group publishes a set of open-access, peer-reviewed academic journals with no publishing costs to authors. Its goal is to provide free, quality-assured knowledge. Secondly, it aims to bridge the Academia-Wikipedia gap by enabling expert contributions in the traditional academic publishing format to improve Wikipedia content.
World Health Organization: Pre-prints have been posted in the context of the Public Health Emergency of International Concern declared by the Director-General of the World Health Organization 30 January 2020. The data in these papers are freely available for unrestricted use, distribution and reproduction in any medium, provided that the original work is properly cited as indicated by the Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 Intergovernmental Organizations license (CC BY IGO 3.0).
ZB MED: As the central information infrastructure for the life sciences, ZB MED has compiled numerous offers for scientists working on SARS-CoV-2 and COVID-19 at the COVID-19 Hub.