We are seeing unparalleled support from publishers and vendors. Many have reached out to us offering free trials to resources through the end of the semester. Others are opening up portions of their collection to help connect people to reliable information about COVID-19. Even in times of crisis, we are grateful for how those in the business of providing access to information recognize the need for reliable, accurate, and current information is more important than ever. Below is a list of publisher resources and Open Education Resources that we have collected.
Many of the links below contain access to ebook collections that you can use for searching for textbooks or other needed course material. Additionally, we have also been given free trials to important resources such as Business Source Ultimate that offer in-depth coverage in certain subject areas that have been previously inaccessible to us. So please take advantage!
Cambridge University Press has made available a collection of free Coronavirus book chapters, blog posts, and articles.
JSTOR has released a set of 26 journal archives in Public Health, making them openly accessible through June 30, 2020. In addition, they are partnering with publishers to make available over 20,000 ebooks. Please see this list of all Open Access and Free resources provided by JSTOR during this time.
Additionally, until June 30, 2022, our access to JSTOR archives has been greatly expanded. Access to all unlicensed collections at no cost for participating academic institutions that currently license some, but not all, JSTOR Archive and Primary Source collections. More than 25,000 books available at no charge for JSTOR participating academic institutions and secondary schools that do not participate in our books program.
“For the duration of this crisis, all Ohio State University Press monographs, and the linguistics textbook language files, will be open and free to use through the Ohio State University Libraries’ Institutional Repository, The Knowledge Bank.”
Project MUSE offered over 2,000 open access (OA) books and a few scholarly journals from several distinguished university presses and scholarly societies. As of June 30, 2020, Project Muse is not longer making these resources publicly available.
RedShelf is a provider of digital instructional resources. They are providing free access to digital textbooks to students from nonprofit, semester-based colleges and universities through May 25, 2020. As of May 25, 2020, RedShelf is no longer providing free access.
University of Michigan Press has made some content in the University of Michigan Press Ebook Collection (UMP EBC) open access and free to read.
OER are teaching, learning, and research resources that reside in the public domain or have been released under an intellectual property license that permits their free use and re-purposing by others.
Source: The William and Flora Hewlett Foundation
For more definitions of OER, see the Creative Commons Wiki.
Source: The Review Project
Instructors can find OER in a variety of resources. Most OER organizations or collaborations have a database or central list of resources that faculty have added. Some databases also feature annotations or faculty feedback. Additionally, many disciplines have their own OER websites. The list below is not comprehensive but can instead be used as a starting point for faculty doing interdisciplinary work or work in any discipline. Remember that not all of the learning materials in these repositories and sources are OER for modifying but most of the content is freely available under Fair Use and/or with attribution.
General Education Search
Recorded Lectures & Video Tutorials Search
Open Textbooks
Modular Course Components
Complete Courses
OER and OCW Search Engines
Math
Humanities
Language Learning
Sciences
Social Sciences
Health
Tips for Searching OER:
Also, see below for an infograpic which visualize the process of searching for OER.
*Note: this infographic was adapted and modified from the University of Texas at Austin's original infographic. For more information, see their Center for Open Educational Resources and Language Learning website.
Jove is offered videos and course content for biology and social psychology. As of June 15, 2020, Jove no longer offers free access to these products.
250 films produced by PBS that document the American experience
A national preserve of documentary films about American roots cultures
1,700 talks on "ideas worth spreading."
675 open movies, in addition to a number of audio books, open courses, ebooks, and textbooks.
Thousands of open videos hosted by the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
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