Off Campus/Remote Library Access

In addition to the resources we have listed throughout this guide, many publishers are also making select collections openly accessible during the COVID-19 pandemic.

• Affordable Learning Resources from OhioLINK: This curated list includes Open Educational Resources (OER's) as well as traditional databases, ebooks, e-textbooks, and open access content, all openly available. 
  • A link to the Open Textbook Library, one of these OER resources, is included below.
• Specifically, on COVID-19:
  • LitCovid from the National Institutes of Health, gathers all the recent research on COVID-19 into one literature hub for researchers.
  • From the Chronicle Higher Education, this collection of articles covering COVID-19 in higher education is continuously updated, as is this collection on how the virus is upending higher ed.
  • Novel Coronavirus (COVID-19) information from the World Health Organization (WHO) is found here.

  • In addition to these resources, the following publishers have opened their articles on COVID-19 to the public: 

    • AIP (the American Institute of Physics)

    • BioOne

    • The British Medical Journal (BMJ)

    • Centers for Disease Control & Prevention (CDC)

    • Cochrane Library

    • Elsevier

    • European Centre for Disease Prevention & Control (ECDC)

    • Journal of the American Medical Association (JAMA) Network

    • JSTOR

    • Lancet

    • New England Journal of Medicine

    • OECD the Organization for Economic and Cooperation Development

    • Oxford University Press

    • Public Library of Science (PLOS)

    • ProQuest has created a database devoted to COVID-19 research

    • SIAM, the Society for Industrial & Applied Mathematics, has created an Epidemiology Collection that is freely available to all through 2020.

    • Springer Nature

    • SSRN (preprints)

    • Taylor & Francis 

    • University of Chicago Press (their COVID-19 content begins halfway down this page)

    • & Wiley

Along these same lines, there are several discussions supporting the use of the Fair Use Doctrine in Emergency Remote Teaching & Research that may be helpful to use and share during this time.