COVID 19 – Publishers and Universities open access to content
Tools for Coronavirus researchers
- Springer Nature (the publisher of Nature) has joined others in making papers relevant to the outbreak free to read and emphasizing that it embraces preprints and early data-sharing.
- Elsevier has done a similar thing, and The Lancet’s collection is here.
- Wiley’s collection of free articles is here.
- The New England Journal of Medicine gathers its resources here and The BMJ’s collection is here.
- Manuscript-editing service AJE is offering free English language editing and translation for articles related to the coronavirus.
- Chinese journal database Chongqing VIP Information has opened its website to readers for free.
Click here for more Publisher / Vendor Support for Access to E-Resources in Response to COVID-19
Internet Archive National Emergency Library – https://archive.org/details/nationalemergencylibrary
The following sites are provided free until the end of May for people isolated at home due to the Coronavirus.
1. Free audio books from amazon in 6 languages
https://stories.audible.com/discovery
2. Free virtual Visits to 17 European museums
https://www.demotivateur.fr/article/visiter-des-musees-sans-bouger-de-son-canape-le-plan-parfait-pendant-la-quarantaine-19057
3. 700 Free books from Cambridge press
https://www.cambridge.org/core/what-we-publish/textbooks#
4. Free Broadway shows
https://www.insider.com/stream-broadway-musicals-plays-for-free-online-limited-time-coronavirus-2020-3
Below are various links with free access to HTML textbooks, Cambridge Histories, Cambridge Companions and Cambridge Elements, through to 31st May 2020:
A full list of 700+ HTML textbooks published on the platform can be found here
https://www.cambridge.org/core/what-we-publish/textbooks
Cambridge Companions
https://www.cambridge.org/core/what-we-publish/collections/cambridge-companions
Cambridge Histories
https://www.cambridge.org/core/what-we-publish/collections/cambridge-histories
Cambridge Elements
https://www.cambridge.org/core/what-we-publish/elements
In addition, free access to coronavirus research on Cambridge Core has been provided. More than 80 relevant book chapters and journal articles are currently in the collection, with future articles being added once they are published:
https://www.cambridge.org/core/browse-subjects/medicine/coronavirus-free-access-collection
The Press has also joined other publishers in signing a commitment to make the research available through PubMed Central and other public repositories of journal literature.
More details on the response to the COVID-19 pandemic from the Press’s Academic Publishing group can be found here:
https://www.cambridge.org/gb/academic/covid-19-resources-and-information
ProQuest Coronavirus Research Database