Library Free Resources During COVID-19

In response to the challenges posed by the global public health crisis of COVID-19, academic and commercial publishers are temporarily opening up accumulated scientific content on various platforms. As many higher education institutions switch to online learning environment, this will facilitate easy access to research and study-relevant, reliable, multidisciplinary research from a variety of renowned universities, societies, and related nonprofit publishers. These initiatives aim to support training, learning and the discovery of knowledge for consumers around the world.

ELECTRONIC RESOURCES

University of Michigan Press

Here you can find 123 titles of free open access e –books by the University of Michigan Press. University of Michigan Press is a leading publisher and distributor of humanities and social science books and other digital projects. This publisher offers the ability to read books with digital enhancements: 3-D models, embedded audio, video and databases.

Open Access Electronic Resources of the MUSE Project

Universities, publishing houses, various organizations, participating in the MUSE project opens access to more than 2000 open-access e-books and journals in the humanities and social sciences fields. Here you will find a constantly updated list of MUSE project participants.

Free Access to the Access Engineering Database

Until 31 th of May we invite you to try out Access Engineering Database.
Access engineering is an engineering information platform for academics, students and professionals. The database includes e-books on technology and engineering, spreadsheets, interactive graphics, and other visuals.
The VPN service allows you to access this database from home.

EIFL Publishing Partners offers free access online content

Annual reviews electronic journals on biomedical, physical, social sciences and economics.

Temporary access databases on the ProQuest One Academic platform

Until 26th of June we invite you to try out the largest collection of electronic resources from a variety of scientific disciplines available through a single platform search field. It is an option to search e-books and magazines, dissertations, videos and other documents.

ProQuest One Academic has the following four databases on one platform, but you can search for the electronic resources you are interested in each of these databases:

Academic Complete – it‘s a university subscribed and well-known database of e-books for more than 150,000 book titles in the fields of technology, social, physical, biomedical and humanities.
Academic Video Online - Provides unlimited remote access to over 63,000 learning videos on a variety of topics.
ProQuest Central is the largest multidisciplinary full-text database currently available on the market, covering about 175 different subjects: business, health and medicine, social sciences, arts and humanities, education, technology and religion. The collection consists of thousands of full-text scientific journals, newspapers, magazines, conference papers, working papers and market reports.
ProQuest Dissertations & Theses Global is a collection of over 4 million abstracts and dissertations from universities around the world, covering documents dating from 1743 until these days.

Access is available from VGTU computer network or via VPN.

Cambridge Core collection

We invite you to use the Cambridge Core collection books >>>

Royal Society Publishing

Royal Society Publishing - international peer-reviewed and various topics journals >>>

Harvard Business Review Press Collection

From 1st of April until 31th of May we invite you to try out EBSCO electronic ebooks database Harvard Business Review Press Collection.
Collection contains the complete catalog newly published 600 e-books, 400 are monographs, also seminal works, articles, relevant digital materials. Subject covered by collection: business communication, career development, decision-making & problem solving, economics, entrepreneurship, finance, human resources & personnel management, leadership & management, marketing, organizational behavior, personal success, skill development, strategic planning.
Access is available from VGTU computer network or via VPN.

COVID-19 RESEARCH

Free access to Elsevier publisher COVID-19 research

Here you will find scientific sources for the latest research on COVID-19 and free information from the Novel Coronavirus (Covid-19) Information Center on care for patients with COVID-19 >>>

Free access to Taylor & Francis publisher COVID-19 research

This website provides links and references to all relevant COVID-19 research articles, book chapters and other information >>>

COVID-19 articles – free to access content from IOP Publishing

COVID-19 articles – free to access content from IOP Publishing >>>

Cambridge University Press COVID-19 Free Access Collection

Coronavirus Free Access Collection >>>

Emerald have brought freely available research resources

Emerald have brought freely available research resources related to the Coronavirus group of viruses, and epidemics more broadly >>>

World Health Organization (WHO) COVID-19 Studies

The WHO collects and presents the latest scientific findings and knowledge on coronavirus disease (COVID-19) in its database. The database shall be completed and kept up to date >>>

COVID-19 Open Research Dataset (CORD-19)

In response to the COVID-19 pandemic, the Allen Institute, in collaboration with research teams, has prepared the COVID-19 Research Data Set (CORD-19). The collection includes over 44,000 open-access scientific articles, of which more than 29,000 are full-text. Access to dataset >>>

Royal Society Publishing

Royal Society Publishing free pandemic resources >>>

SAGE

SAGE free access to Covid-19 related research >>>

RemoteXs/MyLOFT

RemoteXs/MyLOFT - curated list of open access content on Coronavirus related research >>>

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