COVID-19: publishers make online contents available
Discover a non-exhaustive list of useful resources, temporarily made freely available by publishers or already subscribed by the EPFL Library to support researchers, students and lecturers during this “off campuses” period.
Update on 2020.04.15
Resources about COVID-19
The international association of STM Publishers offers a list of publishers who temporarily open their content, the consortium of French university libraries (Couperin) also. These initiatives completes our selection below.
- Clarivate Analytics (database): free access to articles and reports related to life sciences and COVID-19.
- Cochrane Library (articles): free access to the Special Collection.
- EBSCODynamed (useful information for medical professionals)
- Elsevier (articles, ebooks and resources with TDM availability)
- Emerald (journal articles and book chapters): free content related to coronavirus.
- JSTOR (journal archives and articles): 26 journal archives in Public Health and more than 6,000 selected journal articles related to COVID-19.
- IEEE Xplore (articles and standards)
- Mary Ann Liebert (articles)
- MIT Press (articles)
- Nature (articles)
- NEMJ (article selection)
- Ovid (streaming and database)
- Protocols.io (protocols): fastest growing shared method development group around COVID-19.
- Springer Nature (articles and ebooks)
- Taylor & Francis Online (articles and ebooks)
- The Lancet (articles and ebooks)
- Wiley (articles and ebooks)
- Wiley Europe 1817, UK 1854, Hastings 1873 and Sydney 1895 (digital archives): free resources related to historical perspectives on epidemics, methods used to control their spread, and associated health policies.
- Wiley-Scitrus (discovery application): free content related to coronavirus.
- Wiley zyBook (articles and ebooks): COVID-19 Digital Care Package.
Resources for students and lecturers
- Afnor (ISO standards): standards related to sanitary crisis (download access and print availability).
- American Association of Physics Teacher (articles)
- Annuel Reviews (articles)
- Cairn.info (ebooks): read access (no download availability) until May 31.
- Cambridge (textbooks): 700 titles, published and currently available on Cambridge Core.
- Cengage (textbooks): all
- Docuseek (streaming platform)
- Ebook Central (ProQuest) (articles and ebooks): enrolled publishers.
- Ebook Central (Proquest) (ebooks): unlimited access to Ebook Central Holdings.
- Edwar Elgar (ebook chapters)
- Elsevier (textbooks): 256 titles currently on ScienceDirect for a period of 90 days.
- Epigeum: online courses for students (for example on plagiarism), researchers and lecturers available until May 31 (registration required).
- Erudit (periodicals): SHS, economy and management titles (e.g. L’Actualité économique).
- Gale "China and the Modern World archives": available until May 31, a series of digital archive collections sourced from preeminent libraries and archives across the world, including the Second Historical Archives of China and the British Library.
- GeoScienceWorld (GSW) (ebooks): available until June 30.
- JSTOR: journals and primary source collections beyond the ones already subscribed and a rapidly growing collection of ebooks.
- Jove (streaming platform): free access to all educational video content through June 15.
- Kanopy (streaming platform)
- Lumen (Open Education Resources)
- MIT Press Direct (ebooks in several fields): only for EPFL members, until the end of May.
- National Emergency collection (book collection): supporting remote teaching.
- Open Edition: journaux Freemium (habituellement publiés avec un embargo ou en streaming uniquement), ebooks (dont par exemple les titres de l’éditeur IRD (Institut de Recherche pour le Développement)).
- Pidgeon Digital (Architectural Design): Pidgeon Audiovisuel Collection 265+ talks and transcripts.
- Project Muse (articles and ebooks)
- Vital Source (ebooks): an expansive catalog of etexts through May 25.
- Wiley (textbooks): WileyPLUS or Knewton Alta.