University Library Updates: Free Resources from Vendors

Here you will find expert, curated information for the research and health community on SARS-CoV-2 (the novel coronavirus) and COVID-19 (the disease).

All resources are free to access and include guidelines for clinicians and patients.

Harvard University is offering dozens of free, online courses on a wide range of subjects, including mobile app development, financial management of nonprofits, pandemics and neuroscience.

Internet Archive has suspended waitlists for over 1.4 million books in their lending library by creating a National Emergency Library to serve the nation’s displaced learners.
The National Emergency Library is a collection of books that supports emergency remote teaching, research, independent scholarship, and intellectual stimulation while universities, schools, training centers, and libraries are closed.

Pearson is making a wide range of resources available to help college faculty and students shift to online learning. Offerings for instructors include videos and resources to increase teaching effectiveness and how to use screencasting to gather student feedback. Student can gain access to online textbooks and find guidance on how to best engage in online learning, including “Being an introvert in the online world.”

Some open access titles (look for unlocked icon).