Publishers Providing Free Access to Their Materials During COVID-19 Crisis

Publishers and aggregators are unlocking their previously subscription-based sites and making them accessible to all. Here is an initial listing of what is now available.

Additional sites include:

The American Psychologicaren l Association is allowing access to its publications manuals and other resources.

Audible is making selected works, primarily aimed at children, freely available as long as schools are closed.

Booklist is now freely open.

EBSCO is allowing upgrades to numerous ebooks from single user to multiple concurrent users.

The Internet Archive presents the National Emergency Library containing over one million volumes freely available without waitlisting. These are primarily books with U.S. imprints for the 20th century.

JoVE, a database containing thousands of science videos, is now open.

JSTOR, while having an open access subset of materials, is in the process of expanding these offerings.

Library Journal offers free access to its content.

LibraryThing is now free!

Project Muse is opening up its offerings during this crisis.

RedShelf is offering up to seven free eBooks (really textbooks) from such major publishers as McGraw-Hill, Taylor and Francis, and Routledge.

Vital Source is providing hundreds of etexts for both students and faculty; NJCU is a participating institution.

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