Research Guides: Free access to additional resources during COVID-19: Home

Using this Guide

This guide provides links to a selection of publishers who have made their materials freely available in light of covid-19.

In general, these are resources that are not available in our catalog.
Some publishers do, while others do not, indicate when they will cease providing free access to select materials. There is no guarantee of continued access, even within a term of availability, so please keep that in mind as you use these resources.
Please be aware that some of these repositories will ask you to create an account before providing access
If you have any questions or concerns please contact Semyon Khokhlov skhokhlov@haverford.edu

Booklist - book-review magazine published by the American Library Association -

Hathi Trust - e-access to 161,000 titles in our physical collections - login required - e-books can only be read online

Internet Archive - National Emergency Library - unlimited access to the 1.4 million books in this collection - availability ends 6/30

Adam Matthew - 80+ historical primary source databases searched either in a group or individually - availability ends 6/15

Paratext US Documents 1774 - 2020 - American public and political documents - availability ends 6/30

University of Virginia Press Rotunda - digital editions of the papers of important early American figures - availability ends 6/30

Art & Architectural History - 183 ebooks from university presses and museums - availability ends 6/28

Berghan Books - ebooks in the humanities and social sciences - availability ends 4/30

Bloomsbury Publishing - e-books, visual and pedagogical materials - availability ends 5/31

Brepols - all ebooks published before 2017 (around 1,600) - availability ends 5/31

MIT Press - over 2,700 ebooks

Oxford University Press - over 1,000 handbooks - availability ends 5/30

Project Muse - e-books and journals from numerous publishers - term of availability varies from 5/30 - 6/30

University of Michigan Press - over 1,000 ebooks - availability ends 6/30

Folger Shakespeare Library - seven complete audio performances of Shakespeare plays - availability ends 7/1

Index of Medieval Art - databases of art images and descriptions covering "early apostolic times to the 16th century - availability ends 6/1

Kanopy - added sixteen films to its accessible collection- availability ends 4/12

New Day Films - free fourteen-day streaming license for select films in its collections

Annual Reviews - Linguistics, Sciences, Social Sciences - availability ends 4/30

Berghan Journals - Social Sciences - availability ends 6/30

Brepols - 20 of their journals (note: content available from issues only up till 2011) - availability ends 5/31

e-Marefa - Arabic language journals as well as dissertations and reports (publications are in English and Arabic) - availability ends 5/26

John Libbey Eurotext - 23 medical and science journals in English and French - must create account to access materials

Project Muse - e-books and journals from numerous publishers - term of availability varies from 5/30 - 6/30

Royal Society Publishing - full access to journals covering science and history of science -

University of California Press - 46 journals in the humanities, social sciences, and natural sciences - availability ends 6/30

World Scientific - 140 journals in sciences, social sciences, and business - availability ends 6/30

Cengage - 14,000 textbooks as well as pedagogical materials - must create account to access

Redshelf - textbook repository - students can access up to seven e-textbooks upon creating an account - 5/25