A Guide to Library Resources During COVID-19 Conditions: Home

Annual Reviews

Content Type: Journal

Full-text of all Annual Review publications in biomedical sciences, physical sciences and social sciences. This includes a complete backfile of all titles, some of which date back to 1930.

All Journals Available until June 15, 2020

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JSTOR

Content Type: Journal, eBooks, Primary Sources

• JSTOR Archive and Primary Source collections available at no cost until June 30, 2020
• Expedited release of 26 journal archives in Public Health: NOW AVAILABLE
• Additional e-book content may be found on the JSTOR site through May

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Elsevier

• Elsevier’s free health and medical research on novel coronavirus (COVID-19)
• Novel Coronavirus (COVID-19) Information Center for nursing and healthcare educators

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ScienceDirect

Content Type: Textbooks and eBooks

• 256 textbooks automatically entitled to all active ScienceDirect customers for 90 days.
• Access title list here: https://www.elsevier.com/__data/promis_misc/sd-content/books/textbookdet.xlsx

SpringerNature

Content Type: Textbooks

• 407 textbooks immediately available until July 31.
• Access searchable title list here: https://library.mtsu.edu/remote-resources/springer

GALE Cengage

Content Type: eBooks, Journals

Offering free access to all digital platforms and 14,000 ebooks through Cengage Unlimited

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Project Muse

Content Type: eBooks, Journals

The following publishers have chosen to temporarily make content freely available on Project MUSE. Each publisher designates the specific content and for how long it will be freely available on MUSE. The list below is a partial one. See Project MUSE's website for a complete, current list of all publishers offering free content.

• Johns Hopkins University Press (all books and journals, through 31 May 2020)
• Ohio State University Press (all books and journals, through 30 June 2020)
• University of Georgia Press (all books, through 30 June 2020)
• University of Nebraska Press (all books and journals, through 31 May 2020)
• University of North Carolina Press (all books, through 30 June 2020)
• University Press of Colorado (all books, through 30 June 2020)
• Temple University Press (all books, through 30 June 2020)
• Utah State University Press (all books, through 30 June 2020)
• Vanderbilt University Press (selecfed books, through 31 May 2020)

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Duke University Press 

Content Type: eBooks, Journals

• We are extending grace access for content hosted on both of our platforms (read.dukeupress.edu and projecteuclid.org) through the end of May for our existing customers.
• We would like to share our reading lists, which offer free content (included is Navigating the Threat of Pandemic).

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University of Michigan Press

Content Type: eBooks

• https://blog.press.umich.edu/2020/03/ump-covid-19-free-access/
• https://www.fulcrum.org/michigan for books
• Available until the end of May

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University Press of Kentucky

Content Type: eBooks

• University Press of Kentucky opens access to more than 1,000 UPK books in electronic form
• UPK Books available at this link until June 1,2020

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National Emergency Library

Content Type: eBooks

• As of March 24, 2020, the Internet Archive will suspend waitlists for the 1.4 million (and growing) books in our lending library by creating a National Emergency Library to serve the nation’s displaced learners.
• This suspension will run through June 30, 2020, or the end of the US national emergency, whichever is later.

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Streaming Media

• https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1A2bJoWFHLj_ZVS2Dh1LC40uUupMsl7C99M8c7NvEY8g/edit#gid=0

EBSCOhost, through the end of June

Content Type: eBooks

• Upgrades for Active EBSCO eBooks Customers: A growing number of publishers are automatically upgrading all 1U, 3U and Concurrent Access models to a UU model until June 30, 2020, at no cost*.

Press Release: https://t.co/aJpUqJnRkA?amp=1

ProQuest, through mid June

Content Type: eBooks

• ProQuest has partnered with more than 75 publishers to support libraries in providing unlimited access to Ebook Central holdings for all patrons – at no extra charge
• Publishers: https://media2.proquest.com/documents/unlimitedaccess-participatingpublishers.pdf

Press Release: https://www.proquest.com/blog/pqblog/2020/Coronavirus-Impacted-Libraries-Get-Unlimited-Access-to-Ebook-Central.html

Open Resources, always available 

• JSTOR and ARTStor
• https://about.muse.jhu.edu/muse/open-access-overview/

Looking for resources specific to COVID-19?

Vendors and publishers have also enabled free access to coronavirus-related research articles. The library has an updated list available for you here: https://library.mtsu.edu/covid