Please see below for a list of content made freely available for the Spring semester, in order to support online instruction during the COVID-19 pandemic.
The final section is a list of Open Educational Resources released under an open license that permits no-cost access, use, adaptation and redistribution by others at any time. Contact anderj6@sage.edu with any questions.
Flipster: Online platform with nearly 1,500 digital magazines from across disciplines, including art & design, business, and popular titles. Free access runs through June 30, 2020.
ProQuest ebooks: ProQuest is converting all licenses to unlimited access through June 30th for titles from over 100 publishers. Search Sage's collection of ProQuest ebooks here.
Elsevier: Textbooks are freely accessible to ScienceDirect customers to support students and lecturers whose classes have moved from campus to online. Find a list of free e-resources here. To gain free access to an Elsevier text, search the title through the Libraries' account.
The Internet Archive is a non-profit library of millions of free books, movies, software, music, websites, and more.
University of Michigan Press: Access restrictions will be removed for all 1,150+ titles in the UMP ebook catalog until June 30, 2020.
JSTOR: Free access to more than 35,000 available books, in addition to all JSTOR Archive and Primary Source collections. Click here to access Sage's JSTOR account. Access is active through June 30, 2020.
Johns Hopkins: Dashboard provides key stats (infections, nations, deaths, etc) in a readable format. (Explanatory paper)
Springer Nature: All research related to COVID-19 is freely available.
Wolters Kluwer: Free COVID-19 Resources and Tools, including Resources for Clinicians and Medical Professionals from UpToDate
JAMA Network: COVID-19 collection includes Q&As with NIAID's Anthony Fauci, an interactive map of the outbreak courtesy of The Johns Hopkins Center for Systems Science and Engineering, and past publications on vaccine development, infection control, and public health preparedness.
Wiley: See Covid-19: Novel Coronavirus Content Free to Access. This includes journal articles and book chapters on coronavirus research.
New England Journal of Medicine: A collection of articles and other resources on the Coronavirus (Covid-19) outbreak, including clinical reports, management guidelines, and commentary.
JSTOR: Set of 26 journal archives in Public Health is openly accessible through June 30, 2020.
Lancet: COVID-19 Resource Centre
Elsevier: Free health and medical information on novel coronavirus (COVID-19) including the latest relevant research.
SAGE Publications: Free access to COVID-19 research and resources.
Taylor & Francis: Microsite provides links and references to all relevant research articles, book chapters and COVID-19 information
Science: Science journals are providing free access to their most timely research, analysis, and news coverage of COVID-19 and the coronavirus that causes it.
Open Education Resources (OER) are teaching, learning, and research materials in any medium that reside in the public domain or have been released under an open license that permits no-cost access, use, adaptation and redistribution by others (e.g., Creative Commons license).
List of Search Tools for discovering free online course materials.