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Textbooks & Resources for free during COVID-19 online teaching

Purpose

As Faculty move into an online environment, certain publishers and vendors are now offering free or expanded access to their sources to assist during this time where physical access to collections are not as readily available. To support faculty and student needs, this list will be updated as information becomes available. If you need me to facilitate the acquisition of materials for your use, email me please. Finally, If you know of any free resources that are not on this list, please email me at: jeannette.glover@src.edu and I will add them to the list.

Thank you.

Jeannette Glover 
Library Services Coordinator

Textbooks and Resources (Free or Expanded Access - LIMITED time through the end of term.)

The latest psychological research on COVID-19 and the racism pandemic available in APA PsycArticles.

Journal articles on COVID-19

Journal articles on Race, Trauma, and Social Injustice

2020 Updates to APA Thesaurus of Psychological Index Terms®

 REDSHELF and VITALSOURCE - major textbook providers have opened up free access for students until the end of term. Refer to their websites for details -- check to see if your texts are available -- these are large providers of textbooks for classes.
 

  • Vital Source Access:

    1. Visit Vitalsource’s Bookshelf login page and follow the instructions to create an account. Students must create an account with their institutional (my.src.edu) email address.

    2. Once they confirm their email, they can sign in and search for books by title, ISBN, author.

    3. When they find the title, just hover over it and click ‘borrow’. Users can borrow up to 7 titles.

  • ​​RedShelf Access:

  1. ​Visit RedShelf's login page for RedShelf Responds. Students must create an account with their institutional (my.src.edu) email address.

  2. Once they confirm their email, they can sign in and search for books by title, ISBN, author through the borrow your text search box.

  3. Once you find a title, click on details for the title you want and look for the ADD TO MY SHELF option. That will open a read now option – and also put the book on your “shelf” to return to again.

CENGAGE 

  • Cengage Higher Ed: A resource page has been established which will help you locate your Cengage representative to enable the following resources:

  • Free Access to Unlimited: We will be providing free access to our entire catalog - all of our online learning platforms and eBooks - through Cengage Unlimited, through end of term, to any student in any class at any US college that has been impacted by COVID-19.
  • Support Transition to Online: We will complement that offering with services and resources to back up educators as they change the way they teach.
  • Free Access to eBooks: As part of our mission to help as many students as we can, we are also participating in free eBook access programs being offered by our partners VitalSource and RedShelf. 

 

Wiley: Beginning today, instructors without an adopted online learning solution, such as WileyPLUS, Knewton Alta or zyBooks, can receive free access for their students for the remainder of the Spring 2020 term.

  • Instructors teaching at impacted institutions can request access to WileyPLUS or Knewton Alta here; instructors looking for zyBooks access can apply here. 
  • For current WileyPLUS and Knewton Alta instructors, Customer Success Specialists are equipped to provide additional support, including extension of due dates, adjusting assignments or increasing the capacity to work remotely. 
  • Wiley is also partnering with organizations, like VitalSource, to offer free etexts to students whose classes have move online.

EBSCO [participating publishers]

    • Upgrading existing holdings to Unlimited-User access until June 30 for a growing list of publishers.* This upgrade went live on Monday, March 16.
    • Discounting Unlimited-User access at One-User pricing for new e-book acquisitions

 Audible - opens access to over 300 audioooks.

Odigia is offering complimentary platform access to those (instructors) in immediate need

Texas Instruments is offering free six month subscriptions 

Wabbitemu - For students who need access to a TI graphing calculator. Can install on Windows, Mac, or Android device. Wabbitemu supports the TI-73, TI-81, TI-82, TI-83, TI-83 Plus, TI-83 Plus Silver Edition, TI-84 Plus, TI-84 Plus Silver Edition, TI-85, and TI-86.

Royal Society Publishers:

Following a decision to make relevant COVID-19 content free to access, RSP has now removed all access controls on their journals for the time being.

From the publisher:

We want to support our librarian and researcher communities, and understand that people may be working remotely for a long while. We do not want access issues to impede any work for our end-users during this tumultuous time.

Because the paywall will be down, this means that you will have access to additional content for researchers. 

Compiled list of Publishers & Vendors offering free or expanded access for limited time (Notre Dame Librarians)
Compiled list of publishers offering free or expanded access for limited time (University Information Policy Officers, Vendor Love in the Time of COVID-19, © 2020)