COVID-19: Special Offers, Events, News, and Updates From Library Vendors, Publishers, Online Services, and Others
The links below provide updates and special offers from vendors and other companies that work with the library community.
Latest Additions
Expanded Access to JSTOR During Covid-19 Crisis
Last Update: 5:00 p.m. on April 15, 2020
ACM Digital Library “For the next three months, there will be no fees assessed for accessing or downloading work published by ACM.”
All The Free Trials And Deals On Streaming Video Services You Can Try Right Now (via Boston.com)
Ancestry Free At-Home Education Resources From Ancestry and Access to Nearly 500M National Archives Records
Apple Books Offers ‘Stay at Home’ Collection of Free Read-Alongs For Kids, Cozy Mysteries, And Audiobooks (via 9to5 Mac)
Arizona State University: “ASU For You Offers Publicly Accessible Learning Tools” (via ASU Library)
…kids everywhere can instantly stream an incredible collection of stories, including titles across six different languages.
Booklist Announces Free Access For All
British History Online Makes All Research Content Free to Individual Users Until July 31, 2020 ||| Hat Tip: DH Now
Checkology Free for U.S. Educators Affected by COVID-19 School Closures
From the News Literacy Project.
Comic Book Legal Defense Fund (CBLDF) Launches All Ages Read-Along
Coursera for Campus Will Be Available Globally at No Cost to Any University Impacted by COVID-19
Dictionary.com Launches Learning at Home Center: Free Educational Resources for Kids and Parents
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.
DPLA An Update From the Digital Public Library of America (March 23, 2020)
- EBSCO Releases COVID-19 Customer Resources Portal
- EBSCO and Harvard Business Publishing Offer Corporations Free Unlimited User (UU) Access to Business E-Book Subscription Collection
- A Free (Simplified Version) of Faculty Select is Now Available
- Gain Unlimited User E-Book Access from Participating Publishers, More Than 300 Publishers Now Participating
- Let’s Get Together And Share Our Stories: A New Webinar Series
- Schools and Public Libraries Impacted by COVID-19
- COVID-19 Resources Page
Emerald Publishing Collection of Various COVID-19 Resources and Full Text Articles
Ex Libris Provides Free Access to Coronavirus–Related Research Funding and News
Gale Launches COVID-19 Resource Center, Free to Access
GetAbstract Offers Free Access to Condensed Books and Reports Until May 18, 2020
Horn Book Offers Free Access to Online Issues
Library Journal Offers Temporary Free Access to All Digital Content During COVID-19 Crisis
Macmillan Learning FREE Access To Our Digital Tools for the Rest of the Semester
MIT Press Offers E-Resources During the COVID-19 Pandemic
Nelson Response and Support for theEducation Community DuringCoronavirus (COVID 19)
The New York Times Company and Verizon Are Offering 14 Million High School Students Free Access to Times Journalism
For the duration of this crisis, all Ohio State University Press monographs, and the linguistics textbook language files, will be open and free to use through the Ohio State University Libraries’ Institutional Repository, The Knowledge Bank.
OverDrive No Cost and Low-Cost Ebook And Audiobook Collections For Your Community
Oxford University Press Supporting Communities Through COVID-19
Penguin Random House Open License Online Story Time and Classroom Read-Aloud Videos and Live Events
- ProQuest Coronavirus Research Database Gives ProQuest Users No-Cost Access to Essential Coverage of COVID-19 and More
- ProQuest: Coronavirus-Impacted Libraries Get Unlimited Access to Ebook Central Holdings
SAGE Waives Article Processing Charges for Research Related to COVID-19
- SAGE #2 (Multiple Resources)
“We are hosting a hub at our Social Science Space website focused on sharing what the social and behavioral researchers can tell us and teach us — in real time — about public health, mitigation measures, social distancing, and other issues that are important in dealing with COVID-19.”
School Library Journal Offers Free Full Access to Content, Digitized Magazines
Sesame Workshop the nonprofit educational organization behind Sesame Street, is offering a broad variety of free resources to help children and families during the coronavirus pandemic.
University of California Press Journals Available For Free, Full-Text Until June 2020
University of Michigan Press COVID 19 Response: Free Access to Scholarly Ebooks
WebJunction Libraries and the Coronavirus: Evolving Information and Resources
Full Text Journal Articles, Resource Centers, and Other Materials
No charge to access full text articles from publishers with paywalls.
Note: China Coronavirus: How Many Papers Have Been Published (via Nature; Jan. 31, 2020)
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About Gary Price
Gary Price (gprice@gmail.com) is a librarian, writer, consultant, and frequent conference speaker based in the Washington D.C. metro area. He earned his MLIS degree from Wayne State University in Detroit. Price has won several awards including the SLA Innovations in Technology Award and Alumnus of the Year from the Wayne St. University Library and Information Science Program. From 2006-2009 he was Director of Online Information Services at Ask.com.