With the continued shift to online instruction in this time of crisis, many publishers are providing expanded free access to their online materials to libraries. This page is frequently updated with the latest information regarding free access to these collections.
Access is constantly changing based on the evolving situation. You may also view the Information Services Providers Spreadsheet and Vendor Love in the Time of COVID-19 for externally updated lists of vendor and publisher responses to COVID-19.
While some of these collections can be accessed directly through their websites where noted, they are also all accessible through Quick Search or the databases which normally contain the resources.
Please contact the Libraries with any questions, and happy researching!
Films On Demand is continually updating their streaming video collection. Films on Demand contains full length videos from Films Media Group covering Humanities & Social Sciences, Science, Business & Economics, Health, Archival Films & Newsreels.
Digitalia has expanded its access of new streaming videos. Digitalia streams feature films and documentaries in Spanish, Portuguese, and 34 other languages, all with English subtitles. Includes collections of Latin American, Cuban, Brazilian, European and French cinema as well as early 20th century animation.
The Journal of Visualized Experiments (JoVE) has made its coronavirus focused content and related resources freely available. JoVE publishes peer reviewed videos of research protocols.
The Alexander Street Press collection continues to be updated with new streaming educational videos covering a wide variety of disciplines.
New films have been added to Docuseek2, a portal for independent, documentary, educational and social issue video and films.
Including coverage of the COVID-19 outbreak, this database curates openly available content related to coronaviruses. It includes thousands of open-access articles from the world’s leading publishers as well as current research from pre-print repositories such as arXiv and will continue to grow and evolve as more is learned about the pandemic.
Bloomsbury has provided full access to the following:
To support institutions during this challenging time, JSTOR and participating publishers are making an expanded set of content freely available to participating institutions where students have been displaced due to COVID-19.
Further details about this program, participating publishers, and links to other useful resources can be found at about.jstor.org/covid19/.
The Trustees of the Loeb Classical Library and Harvard University Press announced that subscriptions to the digital Loeb Classical Library are made free to schools and universities impacted by COVID-19.