Resources to Support Online Learning During COVID-19 Outbreak

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

Free access to courseware, textbooks, and ancillary materials.

HeinOnline Academic includes more than 100 million pages of multidisciplinary content in more than 100 subject areas, including history, political science, criminal justice, religious studies, international relations, women’s studies, pre-law, and many more. With more historical content than any other database, HeinOnline provides access to 300+ years of information on political development and the complete history of the creation of government and legal systems around the world. Among the many databases included, HeinOnline’s journal collection features nearly 2,800 periodicals relating to a variety of subject areas, with all coverage dating from inception to the most currently published issues in most cases. HeinOnline is providing free access to this resource through December 15, 2020.

SAGE Video showcases highly relevant educational video across key social science disciplines. Each collection includes a breadth of video types to support diverse research and learning needs. All videos are fully citable with searchable transcripts, custom clip creation and embedding.

The premier social sciences platform for SAGE and CQ Press book, reference, and video content.

EBSCO has a variety of free resources available to support its customers during the COVID-19 pandemic. Many EBSCO ebooks have been upgraded to unlimited simultaneous users (previously, 1-3 users at a time could access them). EBSCO is offering free unlimited user access to the Harvard Business Review Ebooks subscription collection (access is in process).

To support distance learning at institutions impacted by COVID-19 closures, we have created a simplified version of EBSCO Faculty Select to help faculty easily find Open Educational Resources and DRM-free e-books to support remote classroom needs.
With this option, EBSCO is offering a simplified version of Faculty Select that includes access to OER material as well as the option to discover more than 225,000 DRM-free EBSCO eBooks in one place, available at no charge for faculty to use through June 30, 2020.

ProQuest just announced the launch of a Coronavirus Research Database in response to the rapidly growing need for authoritative content related to the novel coronavirus (COVID-19). The new cross-disciplinary resource enables researchers to search and discover full-text articles, dissertations and other content from key publishers in one place.

Access in progress: free temporary access to LWW Health Library from Ovid LWW Health Library provides a singular access point to clinical and educational content, as well as rich multimedia ancillaries for teaching, learning, and practice. In addition to health science schools and hospitals, these resources are a must-have for related educational, residency, and fellowship programs – ensuring you have the resources you need to effectively support curriculum for your students’ and residents’ foundational learning and clinical practice needs.

A number of resources from Bloomsbury Digital Library have been made available for free through the end of May 2020. More detailed access information is forthcoming.

Statista.com consolidates statistical data on over 80,000 topics from more than 22,500 sources. Statista will be available through the end of June.

Flipster allows you to browse magazines. This resources is being made available by EBSCO for a limited period of time.

IET has provided us temporary free access to its engineering ebook collection. Access will go through the end of May.

RedShelf is providing up to 7 free ebooks per student. Free to students from nonprofit, semester-based colleges and universities in the U.S. and Canada. Need a school email to create an account.

VitalSource Helps supports students at semester-calendar schools who may have lost access to course materials due to their campus moving online to prevent the spread of COVID-19. Students and instructors at impacted 2 and 4-year non-profit institutions in the U.S. and Canada can now access an expansive catalog of etexts, through May 25, 2020 in the US and April 30, 2020 in Canada, at no charge. This program is made possible by the support of leading publishers, campus retailers, and independent bookstores in higher education.

Students simply log into the VitalSource Bookshelf app using their school email address and can then find and view course materials from participating publishers via VitalSource’s Explore capabilities within Bookshelf.

IGI Global has provided temporary access to their E-journal and E-book databases.

Opens Xfinity WiFi Network Nationally for Free

Xfinity WiFi hotspots across the country will be available to anyone who needs them for free – including non-Xfinity Internet subscribers. For a map of Xfinity WiFi hotspots, visit www.xfinity.com/wifi. Once at a hotspot, consumers should select the “xfinitywifi” network name in the list of available hotspots and then launch a browser.

Consistent with FCC Chairman Pai’s “Keep Americans Connected Pledge” announced today and concerns raised by members of Congress, which we share, AT&T is proud to support our customers by pledging that, for the next 60 days (as of March 13, 2020), we will Keep our public Wi-Fi hotspots open for any American who needs them.

T-Mobile and Metro by T-Mobile customers on our current plans with limited data with data willautomatically have unlimited smartphone data for the next 60 days (excluding roaming). No action required.