COVID-19: Expanded Access to Resources

CENGAGE Unlimited (Offer Expired)

Cengage is currently offering free access to its Cengage Unlimited Platform. This platform is essentially a Netflix for Cengage published textbooks. Please check out this flyer on how to take advantage of Cengage Unlimited as a student or a faculty member.  You can also create an account!

JoVE Education

JoVE is offering free access to all JoVE Education video content (over 9,500 titles) through June 15, 2020.  Faculty members who want to embed content into Canvas will need to request a personal account with JoVE. Please see their LMS Embedding Guides for additional details.

National Emergency Library (Offer Expired)

Last week, the Internet Archive launched a National Emergency Library of 1.4 million digitized books, available to borrow without our normal waitlist. It is an emergency measure at an extraordinary moment in time, when virtually every library in the nation has closed, cutting off access to hundreds of millions of books for teachers, professors, and students. To answer the many questions from our patrons and authors, we'd like to share this response.

NewsBank

Newsbank provides a comprehensive collection of reliable news sources covering a wide array of topics and issues. Use Access World News - Newsbank to explore current issues/controversies and to find topics for research projects. Search Access World News - Newbank for mainstream/popular articles required in English composition papers and Communication Studies speeches. Free Access until June 30, 2020.

​RedShelf Responds (Offer Expired)

In an effort to support COVID-19 impacted institutions and their students, RedShelf is actively collaborating with the academic publishing community to provide free access to their digital textbooks through May 25, 2020.  To search and borrow your textbook, you will need to create an account. To learn more about the program, please visit their RedShelf Responds site.

My Teachstone Learning Resources

To help during the current crisis, Teachstone is making some of its professional development resources available free of charge. Teachers will be able to access exemplar videos of real classroom footage featuring high-quality interactions from each CLASS domain. To register, click on the Activate a Product key and enter 5LMQ6ZQV23FNM56S. You will then need to create a username and password to access the courses

VitalSource Helps (Offer Expired)

Beginning March 16 through May 25, 2020, VitalSource will work with participating publishers to provide free access to an expansive catalog of eTexts will be available for free to students at semester-calendar institutions who have been impacted by the recent crisis. Students need to register for a free account to search and borrow up to seven course materials at a time. For additional details and questions, visit VitalSource Helps.

EBSCO Faculty Select

To support distance learning at institutions impacted by COVID-19 closures, EBSCO just launched a simplified version of EBSCO Faculty Select to help faculty easily find Open Educational Resources and DRM-free e-books to support remote classroom needs. Use Faculty Select to access over 225,000 Open Educational Resources (OER), as well as find and request access to unrestricted, DRM-free e-books from top academic publishers. Access is available through Sept 30, 2020. Please reach out to your library team to suggest a DRM-free eBook title for purchase.

Paperity: Open Science Aggregated

Paperity is a multi-disciplinary aggregator of Open Access journals and papers, connecting authors with readers, boosting dissemination of new discoveries, consolidating academia around open literature. Paperity is paving the way towards more efficient scholarly communication in all research fields, from Sciences, Technology, Medicine, to Social Sciences, to Humanities and Arts. Their ultimate goal is to aggregate 100% of Open Access literature, published in any place around the world, in any field of research

TechSmith

TechSmith Snagit will be provided for free to organizations through June 30th, 2020. Snagit is a screen capture and recording tool that lets users quickly create and share images and videos to create training content, tutorials, lessons, and step-by-step instructions; Record meetings and presentations, create how-to training materials, pre-record academic lectures or supplemental learning content to share with students. To request free access, just fill in the form provided on their announcement page. They also provide a guide for learning how to use visual and video for teaching and learning remotely.

​Adobe Connect

Starting on March 12, Adobe is providing free 90-day access for Adobe Connect, until July 1st, 2020. Individuals and businesses who aren’t customers can now use Adobe Connect rooms with up to 25 participants for free for up to 90 days.

COMCAST Xfinity WiFi

Xfinity WiFi hotspots across the country will be available to anyone who needs them for free – including non-Xfinity Internet subscribers. For a map of Xfinity WiFi hotspots, visit www.xfinity.com/wifi. Once at a hotspot, consumers should select the “xfinitywifi” network name in the list of available hotspots and then launch a browser

​Charter 

Charter offers free Spectrum broadband and Wi-Fi access for 60 days to households with K-12 and/or college students who do not already have a Spectrum broadband subscription and at any service level up to 100 Mbps. To enroll call 1-844-488-8395. Installation fees will be waived for new student households. They also plan to open its Wi-Fi hop stops for public use.