Library: COVID-19 (Coronavirus) Resources: Free resources

Publisher Support

Free Resources during COVID-19 Pandemic

Publishers across the world temporarily removed access control to their products and provide free access to resources during COVID-19 pandemic.

Free Textbooks

Set up an account using your ship.edu email, and borrow up to seven textbooks as ebooks.

	All 700 textbooks published and currently available in HTML format on Cambridge Core are available regardless of whether textbooks were previously purchased. Free access is available until the end of May 2020.
	"In collaboration with the academic publishing community, RedShelf is providing students with free access to their learning materials."
	"VitalSource has joined leading publishers to help ensure students can continue to access quality digital course materials due to a recent and rapid campus shift to distance-learning."

Free books, articles, videos, and more

Adobe Creative Cloud Tools Adobe offering free creative cloud tools for students/faculty impacted by COVID-19
American Society for Microbiology (ASM) 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 a nonprofit publisher dedicated to synthesizing and integrating knowledge for the progress of science and the benefit of society.
BioOne In collaboration with the Association of Research Libraries, BioOne has made articles related to coronavirus in selected journals available via open access through 2020.
Cambridge University Press - book chapters and articles More than 80 relevant book chapters and journal articles are currently in the collection, with future articles being added once they are published.
Classical Communications Database of LiveStreams Listing of live streaming events.
Docuseek IMPORTANT: Contact your subject librarian to set up activation (https://www.lib.umd.edu/directory/specialists/librarian). Docuseek has worked out an arrangement with its distribution partners, Bullfrog Films and Icarus Films, to make any of their titles on Docuseek available for educational streaming, at no charge, as long as the school has a legally-acquired copy of the title (any format), through June 30. If there are Docuseek titles from other distributors (e.g. Kartemquin, First Run, National Film Board) that you have a hard copy of and your faculty want to use in remote teaching during this period, let us know and we can see what we can do to make the film available.
Duke University Press Listed books are free to read online until June 1, 2020, and journal articles are free until October 1.
EBSCO EBSCO is offering expanded and free access to ebooks for students/faculty impacted by COVID-19
Elsevier Portal for access to peer reviewed articles on COVID-19
Foreign Policy Portal for access to articles and podcasts on COVID-19
Gale Online toolkit for librarians and educators to find and optimize their existing resources, access additional resources supporting health research and content for teaching, professional development resources to help transition to virtual learning.
JoVE (Journal of Visualized Experiments) IMPORTANT: Contact your subject librarian to set up activation (https://www.lib.umd.edu/directory/specialists/librarian). Free access to platform available through mid-June.
JSTOR Public Health Journals Link to journals made freely available.
Kanopy Starting March 16th, all selections in the Kanopy catalog from The Great Courses will be available to use at no additional cost for the next 4 weeks. Additionally, there is a small subset of films that are available for free for the next four weeks.
MIT Articles for Understanding Pandemics MIT freely available articles for understanding pandemics and epidemiology (blog)
New England Journal of Medicine (NEJM) A collection of articles and other resources on the Coronavirus (Covid-19) outbreak, including clinical reports, management guidelines, and commentary.
OnTheBoards.TV Anyone may access unlimited On the Boards.tv rentals through the end of April 2020. Artists featured on On the Boards.tv include Ahamefule Oluo, Beth Gill, Okuwi Okpokwasili, Pat Graney, Young Jean Lee, Crystal Pite | Kidd Pivot, Zoe|Juniper, Michellle Ellsworth, Amy O’Neal, Lars Jan, and many more.
Oxford University Press A comprehensive hub of the latest COVID-19 research, freely available for the duration of the outbreak, in order to support researchers, medics, and public health professionals in dealing with the crisis.
Paris Art Museums A collection of 14 museums in Paris have recently made high-res digital copies of 100,000 artworks freely available to the public on their collections website. Artists with works in the archive include Rembrandt, Monet, Picasso, Cézanne, and thousands of others.
Philharmonie Berlin Redeem the voucher code BERLINPHIL by 31 March and receive free access to all concerts and films in the Digital Concert Hall.
PolicyMap Curriculum resources of other instructors using PolicyMap in their instruction.
Project Muse "In response to the challenges created by the global public health crisis of COVID-19, Project MUSE is pleased to support its participating publishers in making scholarly content temporarily available for free on our platform."
ProQuest EBook Central ProQuest Ebook Central customers impacted by COVID-19 will get unlimited access to all owned titles from these publishers through mid-June. All licenses – including single-user and three-user models – will automatically convert to unlimited access during that period. The unlimited access also applies to additional titles purchased through mid-June.
Royal Society Publishing The Royal Society has signed a Wellcome statement on the subject of research findings and data relevant to the coronavirus (nCoV) outbreak. We are one of several signatories to this statement and our collective aim is to ensure that the relevant research and data are shared rapidly and openly in order to inform the worldwide public health response and to help save lives. This special collection comprises some papers likely to be relevant to the outbreak.
Sage Research related to coronavirus is freely available on SAGE Journals. A full list of the open articles includes research both in science, technology, and medicine and in the social and behavioral sciences. SAGE will continue to make new research available related to the virus as it is published.
Springer Nature Articles are free to access with links to pre-prints for sharing
University of Michigan Press ebooks Ebooks made freely available by University of Michigan Press to help with teaching and learning.
Wiley Portal for access to peer reviewed articles on COVID-19.
WKAR Listing of Specific Upcoming Live Performance Listing of live streaming events

Mindfulness Resources for Managing Stress

Body Scan Meditation (HeadSpace) Awareness activity that helps individual reduce stress and anxiety.
Educational Videos on Stress and Mindfulness (UC San Diego School of Medicine) A number of videos available on-demand describing the relationship between stress and mindfulness.
Guided Meditations from UCLA Free guided meditations from UCLA Mindful Awareness Research Center in English and Spanish.
Mindful Coloring Coloring pages and explanation of how coloring is beneficial to reducing stress.
Mindfulness Digital Escape Room Escape room designed to help with breathing techniques for relaxation.

COVID-19 (Coronavirus) Resources

Publisher Support

Mindfulness Resources for Managing Stress

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