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COVID-19: resources made available by publishers

We are sharing this list of resources made available by the generosity of publishers. Access details are accurate to the best of our knowledge, but these are not resource managed by Queen Mary. We are constantly updating the page and new resources will be added to the list in the coming days and weeks. Resources on COVID-19 for medical students and practitioners are grouped together here.

These resources have been selected by the Library team for the relevance to QMUL students and staff. A longer and more comprehensive list of resources made freely available has been compiled by Jisc and can be found here. A list (in Excel format and updated several times each week) of OCLC partners offering free contents is can be downloaded here.  

Resources for all QMUL students and staff

  

This table contains links to free online resources provided by publishers
This table contains the provider name, a summary of what the resource is, the date it's available to and links to each database or journal collection

Provider

Description

Available Until

Links

British Standards (BSI) 

BSI is making freely available relevant standards including Hygiene standardsPersonal Protective Equipment (PPE) standardsRisk management and business standardsVentilator standards

   
Cambridge University Press

All 700 textbooks published and currently available in HTML format on Cambridge Core are available regardless of whether textbooks were previously purchased. Free access is available until the end of May 2020 and a full list of HTML textbooks published on the platform can be found here.

In addition, Queen Mary will get access to all Cambridge Companions.

The Press has made a collection of more than 80 relevant book chapters and journal articles freely available on Cambridge Core. The Press has also joined the Wellcome Trust and more than 30 leading publishers in committing to making all of our COVID-19 and coronavirus-related publications, and the available data supporting them, immediately accessible in PubMed Central (PMC) and other public repositories. Articles are drawn from journals including Epidemiology & Infection, Prehospital and Disaster Medicine, Infection Control & Hospital Epidemiology, and from Animal Health Research Reviews, among others. Future articles will be added to the collection once they have been published. Learn more here.

  Cambridge University Press
Clarivate Analytics Clarivate has lanched a global resource site as well as a Chinese language site to help medical researchers and healthcare professionals access the world’s leading research and late-breaking news around the coronaviruses.     
Emerald Emerald has made the research on COVID-19 and the management of epidemics and pandemics free for anyone to access and have also made this available with full text and data mining rights to PubMed Central and the World Health Organisation repository and will continue to make relevant research freely available on this site.   Emerald journals
Equinox

All Equinox journal issues published in the last 12 months will be opened and all new issues  will be freely accessible until the crisis abates

  Equinox journals
HeinOnline A special COVID-19 issue of the journal Medicine and Law.   Medicine and Law
JSTOR JSTOR is expediting the release of a new set of 26 journal archives in Public Health, making them openly accessible through June 30, 2020. For participating academic institutions that currently license some, but not all, JSTOR Archive and Primary Source collections, JSTOR will turn on access to all unlicensed collections at no cost. To support the institutions during this challenging time, JSTOR and participating publishers are making an expanded set of content freely available: as of 26th March 2020, publishes have agreed to make more than 30,000 books freely available to libraries. Publishers that joined this week include Yale University Press, Columbia University Press, and the African Books Collective. If you are interested in access to these ebooks please email ejournals@qmul.ac.uk. 31st December 2020 JSTOR ebooks and journals
JSTOR   31st December 2020 Artstor Digital Library
Karger Karger is making all published Coronavirus / COVID-19 articles freely available until the end of 2020, in order to support current research initiatives and community health. To make them easy to find, they have been grouped in a “Coronavirus Topic Article Package” (see link) 31st December 2020 Karger
Microbiology Society Microbiology Society has brought together articles from across their portfolio and made this content freely available. The Society has also removed the paywall from their journals' platform   Microbiology Society journals
Newspapers Archive Access more than 400 years of newspapers, obituaries and family history records from 32 countries.     
Ohio State University Press  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.   Ohio State University Press  
Oxford University Press With the recent coronavirus situation, Oxford University Press has made content from online resources and leading journals freely accessible to assist researchers, medical professionals, policymakers, and others who are working to address this potential health crisis   Oxford University Press
Pearson Pearsons is giving free access to core resources for the whole duration of the crisis   Pearson publishing
Portland Press Portland Press and the Biochemical Society are suspending paywalls on all content published across their seven journals until further notice   Portland Press
Project MUSE Project MUSE is supporting its participating publishers in making scholarly content temporarily available for free on their platform. Among the publishers currently opting to make content free on Project MUSE are Johns Hopkins University Press (all books and journals), Ohio State University Press (all books and journals), University of Nebraska Press (all books and journals), University of North Carolina Press (all books), Temple University Press (all books), and Vanderbilt University Press (selected books).   Project MUSE
Royal Pharmaceutical Society

The RPS has made Pharmacy Knowledge available at no cost until the start of the Autumn term 2020-2021. Pharmacy Knowledge gives academics the ability to set up reading lists and teach from a comprehensive range of Pharmacy focused content. 

2nd September 2020  Tutor registration / Student registration 
SIAM (Society for Industrial and Applied Mathematics) SIAM Journal on Mathematics of Data Science continues to be freely available this year during its introductory launch period.   SIAM (Society for Industrial and Applied Mathematics) journals
WARC WARC (WARC provides the latest evidence, expertise and guidance to make marketers more effective) has developed a dedicated content series to help marketers to navigate these constantly changing times. The evidence-based insights are updated daily.   WARK marketing
Wiley Wiley is dedicated to assisting the research community to help minimise the impact of COVID-19 and have implemented the following: Free online access to a collection of more than 5,000 relevant journal articles, book chapters and entries in our major reference works; access to a free, real-time feed of the latest research and news on COVID-19, powered by Scitrus, Atypon's AI-driven personalized discovery application; Free resources from Wiley for those interested in exploring historical perspectives on epidemics, methods used to control their spread, and associated health policies, see: Europe, 1817 or UK, 1854 or Hastings, 1873 or Sydney, 1895    Links in the 'Description' column 
Wolters Kluwer Wolters Kluwer has a dedicated resource page where you can find a range of curated information and resources from their product portfolio that have been made open access to for the medical community during this time (see link). UptoDate product-related information is now open access here.   Wolters Kluwer journals

Resources for medical students and practitioners

 

This table contains links to free online resources offered by publishers
This table contains the provider name, a summary of what the resource is, the date it's available to and links to each database or journal collection

Provider

Description

Available Until

Access

American Association for the Advancement of Science Freely available latest news and research on Covid-19   American Association for the Advancement of Science
American Academy of Pediatrics Freely available critical updates and resources for pediatricians   American Academy of Pediatrics
American College of Physicians A collection of Annals of Internal Medicine articles related to coronavirus is freely available.   American College of Physicians
ACS As a leading scientific society and publisher of scientific research and information, the American Chemical Society (ACS) is committed to helping combat the global COVID-19 pandemic.   ACS resources
American Medical Association  COVID-related information on JAMA and AMA journals are now open access   American Medical Association  
American Physiological Society (APS) Articles discussing COVID‐19, coronavirus, SARS and other related research will be freely accessible as part of APS's Coronavirus‐related Collection. The collection will continue to grow as relevant content is identified and new contributions on these topics are accepted.   American Physiological Society (APS)
American Society of Clinical Oncology The American Society of Clinical Oncology made general resources and information freely available.   American Society of Clinical Oncology
American Society of Nephrology Freely available resources for Outpatient Dialysis Facilities.   American Society of Nephrology
American Society for Microbiology Free access to research articles about COVID-19 & toolkit to help spread information, and they have removed the paywall from their journal platform.   American Society for Microbiology
BioOne In collaboration with the Association of Research Libraries, BioOne and the participating publishers have made articles related to coronavirus available via open access. 31st December 2020 BioOne
BMJ (journals) COVID-19 related content that the BMJ has made freely available across all BMJ journals   BMJ Journals
BMJ (online courses) Free access to their most relevant CPD online courses to update and refresh clinical knowledge for those supporting our healthcare systems in the fight against COVID-19.   BMJ Courses
CAS (American Chemical Society)

CAS COVID-19 Antiviral Candidate Dataset - the open source dataset of nearly 50K chemical substances includes antiviral drugs and related compounds that are structurally similar to known antivirals for use in applications including research, data mining, machine learning, and analytics;

COVID-19 Protein Target Thesaurus - this collection of human-curated protein target synonyms from CAS REGISTRY® and the CAS thesaurus provides additional points of discovery to supplement your research.

   
CNKI CNKI is making freely available the research papers on Covid-19 (in English) and the e-books related to Covid-19     Links in the 'Description' column
Cambridge University Press The Press has made a collection of more than 80 relevant book chapters and journal articles freely available on Cambridge Core. The Press has also joined the Wellcome Trust and more than 30 leading publishers in committing to making all of our COVID-19 and coronavirus-related publications, and the available data supporting them, immediately accessible in PubMed Central (PMC) and other public repositories. Articles are drawn from journals including Epidemiology & Infection, Prehospital and Disaster Medicine, Infection Control & Hospital Epidemiology, and from Animal Health Research Reviews, among others. Future articles will be added to the collection once they have been published. Learn more here.    
Clarivate Analytics Clarivate has lanched a global resource site as well as a Chinese language site to help medical researchers and healthcare professionals access the world’s leading research and late-breaking news around the coronaviruses.     
Cochrane Cochrane has also created two free Special Collections on COVID 19.   Cochrane
EBSCO EBSCO's has created a portal on COVID-19 resources   Ebsco
Elsevier Elsevier gives full access to its content on its COVID-19 Information Center for PubMed Central and other public health databases. From 6th April, Elsevier is also enabling full text and data mining through channels such as the NIH’s PubMed Central and the WHO database for free and without copyright limitations   Elsevier
Emerald Emerald has made the research on COVID-19 and the management of epidemics and pandemics free for anyone to access and have also made this available with full text and data mining rights to PubMed Central and the World Health Organisation repository and will continue to make relevant research freely available on this site.   Emerald 
IEEE Xplore Covid-19 related resources made freely available by IEEE   IEEE Xplore
IET (The Institute of Engineering and Technology) Access to research on areas relating to COVID-19, respiratory viruses, ventilators and ventilator components from IET journals   IET (The Institute of Engineering and Technology)
JSTOR  JSTOR is expediting the release of a new set of 26 journal archives in Public Health, making them openly accessible through June 30, 2020. More info about JSTOR resources made available can be found here.   JSTOR 
Krager  Karger is making all published Coronavirus / COVID-19 articles freely available until the end of 2020, in order to support current research initiatives and community health. To make them easy to find, they have been grouped in a “Coronavirus Topic Article Package” (see link)  31st December 2020  Krager
Mark Allen Mark Allen has a dedicated page hosting any articles published by them relating to the COVID-19 virus, all of which is free to access.   Mark Allen
Mary Ann Liebert Liebert has made, and will continue to make, all of their COVID-19 research content available for free   Mary Ann Liebert
Microbiology Society Microbiology Society has brought together articles from across their portfolio and made this content freely available.   Microbiology Society
The MIT Press Freely available articles for Understanding Pandemics and Epidemiology.   The MIT Press
National Institute for Health and Care Excellence (NICE)

Clarity Informatics have advised that they will grant access to educational bodies whose students have had to return home and are now outside the UK.

In the first instance you should contact your university about this, they in turn will need to contact Clarity Informatics to arrange access.

   
New England Journal of Medicine Collection of freely available articles and other resources on the Coronavirus (Covid-19) outbreak.   New England Journal of Medicine
Oxford University Press OUP has a comprehensive hub of the latest COVID-19 research, freely available for the duration of the outbreak   Oxford University Press
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences Sharing research data and findings relevant to the novel coronavirus (COVID-19) outbreak.   Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences
ProQuest ProQuest has launched a Coronavirus Research Database in response to the rapidly growing need for authoritative content related to the novel coronavirus (COVID-19). The new cross-disciplinary resource enables researchers to search and discover full-text articles, dissertations and other content from key publishers in one place.   ProQuest
Protocols.io Free protocols related to the COVID-19   Protocols.io
RCNi

To support the nursing community RCNi have developed a dedicated COVID-19 resource centre that is free to access for all nurses and frontline NHS staff working with coronavirus patients. The resource centre includes peer-reviewed evidence-based articles and e-learning modules which address some of the areas of care that COVID-19 patients may require, as well as resources designed to help staff stay well during this demanding and stressful period.

Students and nurses returning to clinical practice who are on the COVID-19 temporary register will need additional support and training, so RCNi has also put together a collection of evidence-based articles and e-learning modules aimed especially at them. This collection of resources can be accessed via our main COVID-19 resource centre directly by visiting this page.

  RCNi 
Royal Society The Royal Society has collated relevant articles on COVID-19 into a collection, and will be updating this collection as new research is published.   Royal Society
Royal Society of Chemistry Coronavirus articles - free to access collection   Royal Society of Chemistry
SAGE SAGE is sharing free-to-access research and data related to COVID-19 and its impact: medical research; a curated collection of both medical and social and behavioral science related to the virus and more broadly on managing pandemics   Links in the 'Description' column 
SIAM (Society for Industrial and Applied Mathematics) The SIAM Epidemiology Collection, focused on disease modeling, pandemics, and vaccines, is freely available to all for one year.   SIAM (Society for Industrial and Applied Mathematics)
Springer Nature The latest coronavirus research and news items are freely available from Springer Nature. This material is authoritative and could help on a broad scale.   Springer Nature
Taylor & Francis In response to this global health issue, all coronavirus and COVID-19-related, peer-reviewed research published in Taylor & Francis journals is now free to access and available for anyone to read.   Taylor & Francis
Thieme Thieme is Offering Free Access to Specialist Information on the Coronavirus.   Thieme
Wiley Wiley provides access to a free, real-time feed of the latest research and news on COVID-19 and free resources from for those interested in exploring historical perspectives on epidemics, methods used to control their spread, and associated health policies, see: Europe, 1817 or UK, 1854 or Hastings, 1873 or Sydney, 1895    Links in the 'Description' column
Wolters Kluwer Wolters Kluwer has a dedicated resource page where you can find a range of curated information and resources from their product portfolio that have been made open access to for the medical community during this time (see link). Access up to date product-related information.   Wolters Kluwer
Wolters Kluwer (Ovid) COVID-19 resources for front-line clinicians and medical researchers are available below in response to the global pandemic.   Wolters Kluwer (Ovid)