COVID 19 | Temporary Open & Free Resources

This is a list of newly opened content during the COVID-19 closure period. Please visit often as this list is subject to change.

In order to support institutions and students moving to remote instruction & learning, many publishers are offering some or all of their e-resources freely for a period of few months. Below is a list of publishers/resources that have been made freely available during this period of COVID-19 (Date format: dd/mm/yyyy).

The International Coalition of Library Consortia (ICOLC) community has issued a “Statement on the Global COVID-19 Pandemic and Its Impact on Library Services and Resources.” ICOLC is also maintaining a running tally of all adjustments that vendors are making to the accessibility of their content due to COVID-19. The public-facing list is available here.

OCLC is also maintaining a growing list of this freely available content at oc.lc/covid19-partner-content.

Please note that for some resources you will be prompted to login via EZproxy in order to access the open content.

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• American Institute of Physics (AIP)

 

AIP Publishing has identified a collection of research articles relevant to infectious diseases, epidemics, computational epidemiology, and pandemics, and made them free to read.

https://publishing.aip.org/publications/journals/covid-19/

Available until: 31-03-2021

 

• American Mathematical Society (AMS)

Extending grace access for content hosted on our platforms (including MathSciNet). 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

https://proxy.library.mcgill.ca/login?url=https://www.ams.org/home/page

Available until: 31-08-2020

 

• American Medical Association (AMA)

JAMA Network COVID-19 collection

https://jamanetwork.com/journals/jama/pages/coronavirus-alert

 

• ANSI Standards

The ANSI portal, Freely Available ISO and IEC Standards to Help Address COVID-19 Crisis, now includes 36 international standards covering medical equipment and devices – including ventilators and respiratory equipment; protective clothing used in health care settings; and business continuity management, security, and resilience.

The standards are accessible in read-only format at no cost during the crisis; additional standards may be added in the future.

To access the portal, users must accept the license agreement and register.

Once registered, users can return to the portal via https://asc.ansi.org.

 

• Association of University Presses

The UP Social Distancing Collaboration can be found online at https://covid19.up.hcommons.org/

This site collects and organizes for easy browsing and reference:

Get Informed: A reading list of more than 150 suggested books, articles, collections, and other resources that offer relevant information about public health, pandemics, epidemiology, and more to help understand our current global crisis.

Open UP: A compilation of information about book and journal content from AUPresses members that has been made available via free or open access, especially for educators and students now engaged in remote teaching and learning. This list cites availability, within given timeframes, of works from many publishers.

 

• ASTM Standards

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.

You will need to create an account before accessing the free standards.

https://www.astm.org/COVID-19/

 

• Australian National University (ANU) Press

ANU Press has over 880 peer-reviewed publications freely available. Speciality topics include Asia and Pacific studies, gender politics, Indigenous studies, public policy, defence and the environment.

https://press.anu.edu.au/

 

• Biodiversity Heritage Library (BHL)

 

Over 250,000 e-books through their digital library portal

Thematic collections

Over 160,000 nature images

Biodiversity Heritage Library

 

• BioOne

Peer-review research to inform the coronavirus crisis

https://complete.bioone.org/covid-19

 

• Booklist

 

“Booklist is a book-review magazine that has been published by the American Library Association for more than 100 years, and is widely viewed as offering the most reliable reviews to help libraries decide what to buy and to help library patrons and students decide what to read, view, or listen to.”

https://www.booklistonline.com/

Available until: until further notice

 

 

• 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 us, it will be added to this collection.

https://www2.brill.com/COVID-19_Collection

Available until: 30-04-2021

 

• CEN (European Committee for Standardization)

 

Making available a number of European standards for certain medical devices and personal protective equipment.

List of standards is available at this site (bottom of the page):

https://ec.europa.eu/commission/presscorner/detail/en/ip_20_502

 

• Clarivate

Cortellis Drug Discovery Intelligence. You need to request access.

https://clarivate.com/cortellis/solutions/pre-clinical-intelligence-analytics/

 

• CNKI

CNKI OA platform for all literatures published regarding COVID-19
Chinese version- http://cajn.cnki.net/gzbd/brief/Default.aspx
English version- http://en.gzbd.cnki.net/GZBT/brief/Default.aspx

They also gathered some e-books and audio resources focused on COVID-19 for free: https://oversea.cnki.net/index/marketing/CNKIebook/en/homepage.html

Available until: 31/12/2020

 

• Criterion On-Demand

Movies. Over 1000 videos from Fox Studios.

http://media3.criterionpic.com/006/lcl_top_subjects.htx

Off-campus access will continue to be granted for your users through IP-authentication using the Proxy IP address currently being authenticated on your Criterion on Demand account.

Users will still see a restriction message in the title description stating that the title is only for use on-campus. This message will not disappear, but the user WILL NOT be prevented from accessing and playing the film.

Available until: 31/12/2020

 

• Dealhack Canada Guide to Free Online Resources

 

This is a compilation of online courses, software, academic journals, and apps that you can access for free during the COVID-19 pandemic.

https://dealhack.ca/blog/free-online-resources-for-canadians

 

• Dimensions

The file contains the details of (and links to) all relevant publications, data sets and clinical trials. The content has been exported from Dimensions using a query in the openly accessible Dimensions application, which you can access at https://covid-19.dimensions.ai

As a Google Sheet: https://bit.ly/2TDDobv

As an Excel file hosted on figshare: https://bit.ly/38DHyEE

Providing all relevant content on COVID-19 in Dimensions as a single export file, updated daily, to make sharing and distributing this research information easier.

 

 

• EBSCO

 

 

Faculty Select

• Faculty Select provides course materials for adoption that are no cost to students
• Faculty Select streamlines access to relevant Open Educational Resources (OER)
• Faculty Select enables faculty to search and request access to high quality eBooks to support course material
• Faculty Select improves access to course content for students
• Faculty Select drives usage and value of your library materials and directly support course curricula

Tutorial: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0IUIk0nX8n0&feature=youtu.be

https://more.ebsco.com/Faculty-Select-COVID-19-LP.html

Available until: until further notice

 

 

• Elsevier

 

Novel Coronavirus Information Center. Elsevier’s free health and medical research on novel coronavirus (COVID-19)

https://www.elsevier.com/connect/coronavirus-information-center

 

• Elsevier

Novel Coronavirus (Covid-19) Information Center for nursing and healthcare educators.

https://evolve.elsevier.com/education/educational-trends/coronavirus-resources/?utm_source=social&utm_medium=linkedin&utm_campaign=coronavirus

 

• Equinox Publishing

 

Equinox Publishing is making all journal issues published in the last 12 months and all new issues freely accessible until the Covid-19 crisis abates.

https://www.equinoxpub.com/home/journals/

 

• HathiTrust

 

In response to COVID-19, HathiTrust Digital Library has made over two million books from McGill University Library’s print collection available online for all McGill students, faculty, and staff. The Emergency Temporary Access Service (ETAS) includes in-copyright material. The new service provides remote access to over half of McGill’s print collection.

HathiTrust Digital Library : you need to login with your McGill credentials.

          While full downloads are not permitted, you may download individual pages.

 Available until: until the end of the corona virus situation

 

• John Libbey Eurotext

 

Making available the entire content of our journals free of charge during this period.

Medical fields.

www.jle.com

 

 

• JSTOR

E-journals. JSTOR Archive and Primary Source collections (https://about.jstor.org/covid19/).

https://proxy.library.mcgill.ca/login?url=https://www.jstor.org/action/showBasicSearch

Plus 26 archive journals in Public Health

6,000 free selected articles related to COVID-19

Available until: 30/06/2021

 

• Karger

 

Coronavirus / COVID-19 articles freely available.

https://www.karger.com/Tap/Home/278492

Available: 31-12-2020

 

• Library Journal

Library Journal is offering temporary free access to the digitized edition of LJ, as well as all the content on our website.

https://www.libraryjournal.com/

Please enter with the following credentials for full online access:

Login: access [at] libraryjournal.com

Password: LJfullaccess1

We are also providing free access to the digitized editions of our entire magazine archive, including the latest issue. To access, go to the LJ homepage and click on "Access Digitized Edition" in the upper left-hand corner. For return visits, click on "Bookshelf" in the upper right-hand corner of the Bookshelf-MSI landing page.

 

• Mary Ann Liebert

 

Free articles on Coronavirus.

https://home.liebertpub.com/lpages/-coronavirus-science-backed-research/250/

 

• McGraw-Hill

AccessEngineering (ACE). ACE webinar.

https://www-accessengineeringlibrary-com.proxy3.library.mcgill.ca/

Available: 31/12/2020

 

• Ohio State University Press

 

Monographs and the linguistics textbook language files from the Ohio State University Libraries’ Institutional Repository.

https://kb.osu.edu/

Available until: To the end of the crisis

 

• Online Resources for Science Laboratories (POD)

Simulations/virtual labs, case studies, data sets, other media - videos/podcasts/images/photos

 

• Oxford University Press

Over 2,500 research articles on Coronavirus.

https://academic.oup.com/journals/pages/coronavirus

 

• Quertle

 

Qinsight. Free access to Qinsight for individual academic and non-profit researchers working on SARS-CoV-2 and COVID-19. Quertle is offering access to the full capabilities of its AI-powered literature discovery application Qinsight. To get access please write to:

fight-covid-19 [at] quertle.com

 

• Qwest.tv

          Video-on-demand service featuring jazz and eclectic music.

          https://education.qwest.tv/

          Available until: 30-09-2021

 

• Sage

 

Over 150 free medical, social, and behavioral science articles related to the virus and more broadly on managing pandemic.

https://journals.sagepub.com/coronavirus

 

• SIAM

The SIAM Epidemiology Collection, focused on disease modeling, pandemics, and vaccines, is freely available to all for one year: https://epubs.siam.org/page/EpidemiologyCollection

SIAM Journal on Mathematics of Data Science (https://epubs.siam.org/journal/sjmdaq ) continues to be freely available this year during its introductory launch period.

 

• Springer Nature

Coronavirus research and news items.

Nature collection: https://www.nature.com/collections/hajgidghjb

Springer collection: https://www.springernature.com/gp/researchers/campaigns/coronavirus

 

• Taylor & Francis

Coronavirus & COVID-19 research articles

https://newsroom.taylorandfrancisgroup.com/coronavirus-reading-list/#

 

• Wiley

 

Cochrane Library will be temporarily unrestricted for everyone in every country of the world.

https://www.cochranelibrary.com/

Complimentary access to over 5,000 COVID-19 related articles

Access to a free, real-time feed of the latest research and news on COVID-19, powered by Scitrus, Atypon's AI-driven personalized discovery application. 

Free resources from Wiley for those interested in exploring historical perspectives on epidemics, methods used to control their spread, and associated health policies, see: Europe, 1817 or UK, 1854 or Hastings, 1873 or Sydney, 1895

 

• Wolters Kluwer

COVID Resource page. Health Clarity website.

http://healthclarity.wolterskluwer.com/coronavirus-resources.html?mkt_tok=eyJpIjoiWWpReU16a3daR0l3WlRZeCIsInQiOiJ6aGR2amNBbzVyXC9cL0l3SkxZM3p1NG5maWN1dXphRkZHdXpOdkkyOXN5NEhzb0hRNkdJQUJvZ2xxTzdlTDlIOHhXdHZGaVhNM013Y2NlRWZcL1dkV2FKYjFRK1pmY29YWFViTlNMdWVuSHVCcmx4WGZyVVcrQWhSYkpQbFRmN3RoVSJ9

 

• Wolters Kluwer

Ovid's COVID-19 Toolkit for Clinicians.

http://tools.ovid.com/coronavirus/?utm_source=marketo&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=ovid-customer-memo&mkt_tok=eyJpIjoiWVRoak1qWTNOekZtTTJSaSIsInQiOiJsOWtLWFRseWV5VmR5Rzk1NmhFRUFLUEdYT1RmUnBmU3c0Rjg0cktvbmZKSWtQYjVRK2d4Q2ZIR1NFb3JmZkJTdjQwZHBJZjBWUjV0VndERG1uVmpsMUNcL25wdmhkQU1IN3FRXC85WDA2eHlcL0FNTitvMFUydmhCTm1HVEt0dTFuT005V0wzSllMTzZtc2pEcTBmdHgrRFE9PSJ9

 

• Wolters Kluwer

Coronavirus Resources & Tools (COVID-19) – Legislation, Laws, etc.

https://lrus.wolterskluwer.com/campaign/coronavirus-resources-tools-covid-19/