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Free Resources During COVID-19: Free Databases

This is a guide freely accessible resources to support your learning, instruction and research while you work from home during these gloomy Covid-19 times.

E-Books

Here is a list of free books from various publishers:

1. A growing list of more than 35,000 available books from JSTOR and participating publishers

2. Project Muse Free Books by various publishers. Content that is freely available on the platform during the COVID-19 crisis will display a distinctive “Free” icon.

3. Cambridge University Press higher education textbooks have been made free to access online through May 2020. All 700 textbooks, published and currently available in HTML format on Cambridge Core.

4. University of Michigan Press e-books freely available from Friday 20th March to August 31st.

E-Journals

1. Free read-online access on JSTOR has expanded from six to 100 articles per month. You just need to register!

2. Project Muse Free Journals by various publishers. Content that is freely available on the platform during the COVID-19 crisis will display a distinctive “Free” icon.

3. Annual Reviews made all their journals openly available. Categories include: Biomedical/Life Sciences (32); Physical Science (16); Social Sciences (16); Economics (3)

4. Free access to all JoVE Education Videos till June 15th. The offer includes:

  • JoVE Core – a video textbook that isolates and visually presents core concepts in Biology and Social Psychology to improve learning comprehension. 
  • JoVE Science Education – a collection of simple, easy-to-understand video demonstrations in eight STEM fields
  • Lab Manual – comprehensive, curriculum focused videos for introductory biology lab courses

Readings related to COVID-19

1. 26 journal archives in Public Health from JSTOR

2. 6,000+ selected journal articles related to COVID-19 from JSTOR - articles cover important topics such as corona virus, communicable disease control, distance education, health surveillance, and more.

3. Taylor & Francis Online provides links and references to all relevant COVID-19 research articles, book chapters and information that can be freely accessed and Taylor & Francis ebooks in support of the global efforts in diagnosis, treatment, prevention and further research into COVID-19.

4. Central resource hub from Springer Nature contains links to relevant research from journals and books, as well as additional commentary on COVID-19.

5. Nature and Scientific American have released podcasts from global experts on the pandemic and its development.

6. Corona Virus Resource page from Bio-One.

7. Articles related to Corona Virus in the following journals available via open access through 2020 by Bio-One: Avian Diseases; Journal of Wildlife Diseases; Journal of Zoo and Wildlife Medicine.

8. COVID-19 News and Resource Pages compiled by Association of Research Libraries.

9. Curated list of open access content on Corona Virus related research from MyLoft.

10. COVID-19 related content from Royal Society Publishing.

11. Free access to book chapters and journal articles related to COVID-19 from Cambridge University Press.

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

13. Free Resources on COVID-19 from Oxford University Press.

14. COVID-19: Novel Coronavirus Articles and Research free to access on Wiley Online Library.

15. Coronavirus (COVID-19) - Cochrane resources and news.