LibGuides: COVID-19 Resources: Home

Free vendor resources on COVID-19 (the Coronavirus)

The following vendors and publishers have made their content free to the public on a temporary basis or until further notice. (this list is evolving)

BOOK PLATFORMS/PUBLISHERS

Cengage (ebooks)
“If your campus has been closed due to COVID-19, students on US campuses get a free subscription to Cengage Unlimited through the remainder of the term, which gives them access to all Cengage ebooks and platforms.”
Doody's Review Service - COVID-19 Book List
This COVID-19 book list has been assembled by Doody’s editorial team from information available in the Doody’s Review Service™ database. Although access to this database is typically restricted to paid subscribers to Doody’s Review Service, we are making information on these books freely available to the public in the hopes that one or more of them might prove helpful in providing the needed evidence, research, knowledge, or support that frontline workers need to provide the best possible care to their patients.
ProQuest [unlimited access to subscribed titles]
ProQuest Ebook Central customers impacted by COVID-19 can get unlimited access to all owned titles from over 50 publishers through mid-June. This means that all licenses – including single-user and three-user models – will automatically convert to unlimited access during that period, helping librarians bridge the gap for their patrons in this rapidly changing environment. The unlimited access also applies to additional titles purchased through mid-June. No action is required by librarians to switch on unlimited access – this will be done automatically, and the transition will be seamless for users.

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See list of participating publishers.

JOURNAL & DATABASE PLATFORMS/PUBLISHERS

Annual Reviews (journals)
To assist the many students, faculty, and researchers who are working and studying remotely during the COVID-19 pandemic, effective today, AR journals are available to all, without access control, through Thursday April 30, 2020. On that date, the need to extend this policy will be assessed.

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See curated list of review articles and search for more.
Gale in Context
Access Coronavirus magazine and reference articles, videos, images, audio and more. Try this search.
ICPSR
select open data resources, including some on the coronavirus
ProQuest
Includes 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.

COVID-19 RESEARCH/NEWS

MED/SCI Trackers, Indexes, and Archives

ArXiv
BioRxiv
Clinical Trials (NIH)
Federated search results from the GPO. See more at ClinicalTrials.gov
LitCovid
curated literature hub for tracking up-to-date scientific information about the 2019 novel Coronavirus from NLM
MedRxiv
Wellcome Trust
list of agencies and publishers that have agreed to make data available

Med/Sci Publishers, Vendors, and Private Platforms

BioOne
EBSCO - COVID-19 Updates and Information portal
Elsevier (including Clinical Key)
Coronavirus Information Center. Also available at PubMed Central
Liebert
Coronavirus science-backed research
MLA (Medical Library Association) comprehensive assembled list of resources
NEJM (New England Journal of Medicine) Reference Web Page
links to all freely available Covid-19 content from the New England Journal of Medicine, NEJM Journal Watch, NEJM Resident 360, and NEJM Catalyst. In addition to access to original research and other relevant articles, you will also find links to education resources, NEJM multimedia, and teaching resources. See more below.

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Link directly to available videos
Link directly to Journal Watch for expert coverage of COVID-19.
OVID (Wolters Kluwer)
Tools and Resources for Clinicians
Springer Nature
SARS CoV-2 and COVID-19. Articles are free to access with links to preprints for sharing
Up-To-Date (Wolters Kluwer)
Coronavirus Disease 2019

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see also Wolters Kluwer's search intensity monitoring of the Up-To-Date database
Wiley Online Library
COVID-19: Novel Coronavirus content free to access

Individual journals

International Security
has made its collection of articles: Crisis Reader: Biosecurity and the Global COVID-19 Outbreak freely available until at least the end of March.

OPEN ACCESS

The following are OA publishers or publishers who have temporarily lifted access restrictions (Bronze Open Access) on content related to COVID-19 -- all resources below are freely-accessible as of 3.13.2020

American Society for Microbiology
freely available Novel Coronavirus Resources
American Society for Microbiology (ASM)
free PubMed access to research articles published over the last year in ASM’s 16 scholarly journals
BioOne
peer-reviewed articles on COVID-19 open access through 2020
Clarivate
Global Resource Site
Cochrane Library
curated page of resources organized by audience readership
Coronavirus Report compehensive overview from Clarivate. Disease Briefing: Coronaviruses (3/23/20) (downloads a PDF)
Duke University Press
Navigating the threat of Pandemic Syllabus
Dynamed
COVID-19 Diagnosis and Management Resource Center
Elsevier
Novel Coronavirus Information Center
JAMA (Journal of the American Medical Assn) Network
Coronavirus Resource Center
JoVE
Coronavirus Free Access Resource Center
Mary Ann Liebert
freely-available science-backed research on coronavirus
NCBI Bookshelf
titles on coronaviruses
NEJM (New England Journal of Medicine)
COVID-19 Resources
Ohio State University Press
For the duration of the Coronavirus outbreak OSU is making all of its monographs, and its linguistic textbook Language Files freely available through its repository, Knowledge Bank. More details on the list of available titles here.
Oxford University Press
Free Access to OUP Resources on Coronavirus and Related Topics
PLoS
research on the novel coronavirus
PLoS journals
curated list of PLoS journal articles on the coronavirus
Sage Publishing
Access COVID-19 Articles (freely available)
Springer Nature
Free research articles, ebooks, and additional commentary on COVID-19
University of Michigan Press
Select group of ebooks free to read on Fulcrum platform through 4/30
Wiley Online Library
Novel Coronavirus Content Free to Access

GOOGLE SCHOLAR (see more)

VIDEO PLATFORMS/PUBLISHERS

Artfilms (videos)

Artfilms
Artfilms is offering a heavily discounted subscription to up to 2000 streaming videos for university libraries: $US 500 for access from now until end of September. We will work with libraries to match our titles with existing reading lists on request. Titles included will be influenced by your location, due to licensing rights. More information. *Please note this arrangement is for new subscriptions only as we must protect the interest of our rights holders and artists also.

Docuseek [Bullfrog & Icarus films]

Docuseek
To help out with the challenge of maintaining instruction in cases where face-to-face instruction is cancelled, 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.

JoVE (science videos)

JoVE
All Education video content is free to use in STEM teaching efforts through June 15th.

JoVE Coronavirus Free Access Resource Center

JoVE Core - isolate key scientific concepts and visualize them to maximize learning comprehension. This video textbook, available in Biology and Social Psychology, can be used as primary teaching resource or a supplement to teaching materials.

JoVE Science Education - teach scientific fundamentals with this video library of simple easy-to-understand video demonstrations in 8 STEM fields.

Lab Manual - bring the lab home with comprehensive, curriculum-focused videos for introductory biology lab courses.

JoVE (Journal of Visual Experiments) Science Education Library
A collection of video demonstrations designed for undergraduate courses in natural sciences, psychology, and health sciences. Available through June 15.
Click on "Log In," then click on "Sign Up." Scroll down to create an account.

Kanopy

Kanopy
Kanopy - Free Videos
In addition to the videos already available to the Library, Kanopy is offering free access to certain videos until April 12. See downloadable guide.
Kanopy - Great Courses
Kanopy is offering free access until April 12.

On the Boards.TV

On The Boards
See press release for more information.
Free 48-hour access to all performances available through their site. Anyone may access unlimited OntheBoards.tv rentals through the end of April 2020.
Individual access: Here’s how individuals may access free rentals: • Choose a performance on https://www.ontheboards.tv/ • Pick the 48-hour rental option, then add to your cart (you can do this with as many films as you like) • Go to Checkout • Enter your name and email address • Use the promo code ARTATHOME20

The films featured on the website include international and US-based contemporary artists, some of whom are rarely seen live stateside, with works that might not be performed again. We work with our hand-picked film crew to capture live performances, edit collaboratively with the artists, and deliver the best possible video performance straight to you. All proceeds are shared with the artist, so each time you buy or rent a film, you put money directly in an artist’s pocket.

To see more, VideoLib has compiled a list of streaming offers for instructors from vendors during COVID-19

See: Vendor tracking list. Information Service Providers - Public View

eCampus News from Twitter

Latest Articles

Below is a real-time feed from PubMed of the latest articles on COVID-19

Click here to view articles from the last year

News

GENERAL NEWS / OTHER RESOURCES AND TOOLS

American Alliance of Museums
resources and information on COVID-19 for the museum field
Americans for the Arts - Resource and Response Center
Up-to-date news and resources for the arts and culture field from the nation's leading nonprofit serving, advancing, and leading the network of organizations supporting the arts and art education in America.
Catalog of Government Publications
government publications on COVID-19

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try advanced search: "coronavirus OR COVID OR pandemic" to retrieve hundreds of relevant records
Census.gov
Adjustments made to the 2020 Census calendar due to COVID-19
Center for Systems Science and Engineering (CSSE) Johns Hopkins
COVID-19 Global Cases map with real-time updates
Cleveland.com
Mapping Ohio's Cases

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(continuously updated)
Congressional Research Service
Extensive resource listing recently published research products the Congressional Research Service (CRS) has prepared for Congress related to COVID-19
Copyright Clearance Center
extensive links to open COVID-19 resources

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See also CCC's select list of data visualization sites, datasets and dashboards.
COVIDActNow.org
created by a team of data scientists, engineers, and designers in partnership with eepidemiologists, public health officials, and political leaders to help understand how the COVID-19 pandemic will affect their region.

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(links to Ohio-specific page)
Disaster Lit
NLM's database of links to disaster medicine and public health documents available at no cost
GPO (Government Publishing Office) - MetaLib
federated canned search on pandemics

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try advanced search: "coronavirus OR COVID OR pandemic" in "Health + Safety" to retrieve hundreds of records from different sources at once
Homeland Security Digital Library
large collection of articles and resources on coronavirus
IBISWorld's Industry Insider - Analyst Insights
Freely available to the public. Industry Fast Facts outlines how the spread of the virus is impacting sectors across the countries where IBISWorld operates, including the U.S.
Indiana.gov's Novel Coronavirus 2019 information portal
includes up-to-date county map of cases
Lexis Nexis / @Law360's
coverage of CoronaVirus in the legal world
Library of Congress
browse anything pandemic
Medical News Today
Why does SARS-CoV-2 spread so easily?
Michigan.gov's coronavirus portal
includes quick "cases by county" list
New York State's information on Novel Coronavirus
Get Involved: how you can help
New York Times
Corona-Virus / COVID-19 coverage
NIH
resources and updates on COVD-19 research and funding
NPR
up-to-the minute coronavirus tracking map and more
OECD AI Policy Observatory: AI-Powered COVID-19 Watch
with social distancing simulator
and Coronavirus Spread Visuzalization
Ohio.gov's COVID-19 resource page
Ohio Department of Education
Support for Ohio's K-12 school districts. See also WGTE's free interactives and lesson plans to support at-home learning.
Ohio Department of Health - Resources for Local Health Districts
resources for local health districts, local governments and providers
Ohio Department of Health COVID-19 information portal
includes up-to-the-minute case numbers and link to more resources
PAHO (Pan American Health Organization of the WHO)
see "trend searches of the week" for publications on the coronavirus
PBS Newshour - Arts Canvas
museum exhibits you can visit virtually during the COVID-19 pandemic
Small Business Administration
government learning center offers a number of free online courses
U.S. Department of Health & Human Services Coronavirus Disease Updates
(includes link to CDC)
Veterans Administration and the Coronavirus
a starting place for veterans
Videolectures.net
global pandemics and related
Virological.org
discussion forum for analysis and interpretation of virus molecular evolution and epidemiology. See latest discussion on the novel 2019 coronavirus.

Other free resources and offers

MUSIC PLATFORMS/PUBLISHERS - Streaming Live Performances

Digital Concert Hall - Berlin Philharmonic

Enjoy Digital Concert Hall for free for 30 days. Just copy & paste the code BERLINPHIL at: https://digitalconcerthall.com/tickets

Met OnDemand

As of Monday, March 16, The Metropolitan Opera will stream encore presentations from the award-winning Live in HD series of cinema transmissions on the company website for the duration of the closure. All “Nightly Met Opera Streams” will begin at 7:30pm and will remain available via the homepage of metopera.org for 20 hours. The homepage link will open the performance on the Met Opera on Demand streaming service. The performance will also be viewable on all Met Opera on Demand apps.

Classical Communications Database of LiveStreams

WKAR Listing of Specific Upcoming Live Performances