Mount A Libraries: Library Services During COVID-19 Period: New e-resources

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New Content

In response to the COVID-19 pandemic, many publishers are making subscription content free online. Below is a list of new content with links to get access. We will update this list as new content becomes available.

Academic Complete
Available until May 31, 2020.
Academic Complete is ProQuest’s award-winning subscription database trusted by libraries around the world. For more than a decade, students have relied on Academic Completes unlimited access, multidisciplinary coverage, and powerful research tools.
Academic Search Ultimate
Available until June 15, 2020
Developed to meet the increasing demands of scholarly research, Academic Search Ultimate offers students an unprecedented collection of peer-reviewed, full-text journals, including many journals indexed in leading citation indexes. Includes over 9,000 active full-text journals and magazines.
African American Historical Serials Collection
Available until June 30, 2020
An archive of periodicals documenting African American religious life and culture between 1829 and 1922. It includes newspapers and magazines, plus reports and annuals from African American religious organizations, including churches and social service agencies.
Applied Science & Business Index Retrospective: 1913-1983
Available until June 30, 2020
Art Index Retrospective: 1929-1984
Available until June 30, 2020
Arte Público Hispanic Historical Collection, Series 1
Available until June 30, 2020
An archive of publications focused on U.S. Hispanic history, literature and culture from colonial times until 1960. Available in two series, Series 1 focuses on the creative life of U.S. Latinos and Hispanics.
Arte Público Hispanic Historical Collection, Series 2
Available until June 30, 2020
an archive of publications focused on U.S. Hispanic history, literature and culture from colonial times until 1960. Available in two series, Series 2 focuses on Hispanic American civil rights, religion and women’s rights from the 18th through the 20th century.
ATLA Historical Monographs Collection: Series 1
Available until June 30, 2020
Within two series, over 10 million pages and 29,000 documents focused on religious thought and practice provide researchers with specialized content spanning from the 13th century through 1922.
ATLA Historical Monographs Collection: Series 2
Available until June 30, 2020
Within two series, over 10 million pages and 29,000 documents focused on religious thought and practice provide researchers with specialized content spanning from the 13th century through 1922.
Atlantic Magazine Archive: 1857-2014
Audio Drama: The L.A. Theatre Works Collection
Available until July 31, 2020
Audio Drama: The L.A. Theatre Works Collection delivers, for the first time online, more than three hundred important dramatic works in streaming audio from the curated archive of the nation’s premiere radio theatre company. The plays - which include some of the most significant dramatic literature of the nineteenth, twentieth, and twenty-first centuries - are performed by leading actors from around the world and recorded specifically for online listening.
AVON
Access ends June 30, 2020
Stream hundreds of informative videos and documentaries. This database provides the abilities to create and customize clips, read along with transcripts, and provides persistent linking for all your research.
Bloomberg BusinessWeek Magazine Archive: 1929-2000
Available until June 30, 2020

Booklist
All e-books on this popular literature site are now freely available until further notice.

The Broadway HD™ Collection
Available until July 31, 2020
Find a front-row seat to some of the best live theatre straight from Broadway!
Business Periodicals Index Retrospective: 1913-1982
Available until June 30, 2020
Business Source Ultimate
Available until June 15,2020
Business Source Ultimate works for your students like a solid business plan – it offers an unprecedented wealth of peer-reviewed, full-text journals and other resources that provide historical information and current trends in business that spark discussion on future developments and changes in the business world. Includes over 3,200 active full-text journals and magazines.

Cambridge Core Free E-books
Available until June 29, 2020
Cambridge University Press has opened Cambridge Companions, Cambridge Histories, Cambridge Elements, and all of their Institutional Textbooks on Cambridge Core. These are freely available for access to all universities shut down due to COVID-19.

Coronavirus Research Database
A health and medical research database for available content related to the COVID-19 outbreak
COVID-19: Novel Coronavirus Content
This microsite provides links and references to all relevant COVID-19 research articles, book chapters and information that can be freely accessed on Taylor & Francis Online and Taylor & Francis ebooks in support of the global efforts in diagnosis, treatment, prevention and further research into COVID-19.
Curio
Curio is CBC and Radio-Canada’s online subscriber-based streaming service developed expressly for the Canadian educational community.
Digital Public Library of America (DPLA) Primary Source Sets
Primary source collections exploring topics in history, literature, and culture developed by educators — complete with teaching guides for class use.
Dissertations & Theses Global
Available until June 30, 2020
A comprehensive collection of dissertations and theses from around the world, offering millions of works from thousands of universities. Each year hundreds of thousands of works are added. Full-text coverage spans from 1743 to the present, with citation coverage dating back to 1637.
Ebony Magazine Archive: 1945-2014
Available until June 30, 2020
Ebook Central
Multidisciplinary selection of e-books available in full-text for reading online, printing, and downloading.
EBSCO eBook Academic Collection
Available until June 15, 2020
This multidisciplinary collection includes thousands of e-books covering a large selection of academic subjects and features e-books from leading publishes and university presses. Gain Unlimited Access to 201,500 E-Books Across Many Subjects
Education Index Retrospective: 1929-1983
Available until June 30, 2020
Faculty Select (Simplified)
Available until June 30,2020
Access Open Educational Resources (OER), as well as find and request access to unrestricted, DRM-free e-books from top academic publishers. EBSCO is offering a simplified version of Faculty Select that includes access to OER material as well as the option to discover more than 225,000 DRM-free EBSCO eBooks™ in one place.
Forbes Magazine Archive: 1917-2000
Available until June 30, 2020
Fortune Magazine Archive: 1930-2000
Available until June 30, 2020
Frick Art Reference Library Periodicals Index
Available until June 30, 2020
The Frick Art Reference Library Periodicals Index is an archive of indexed art history journals. Covering Western European and American fine arts and some decorative arts, it indexes prominent international art history periodicals from the mid-1850s through the 1960s.
Gale Primary Sources
Available until June 30, 2020
Gale Primary Sources is a universal research experience that combines Gale's acclaimed digital archives in a single cross-search interface. The digital archives included are:
Public Health Archives: Public Health in Modern America, 1890-1970
Nineteenth Century Collections Online
Archives Unbound
Eighteenth Century Collections Online
The Making of the Modern World
Sabin Americana: History of the Americas, 1500-1926
American Historical Periodicals from the American Antiquarian Society
British Library Newspapers
Nineteenth Century U.S. Newspapers
Nineteenth Century UK Periodicals
GeoScienceWorld Books
Available until June 30, 2020
Free access to all books through GeoScienceWorld. Publishers include:
• American Association of Petroleum Geologists
• Canadian Science Publishing
• Clay Minerals Society
• Geological Society of America
• Mineralogical Society of Great Britain and Ireland
• PSAAPG
• SEPM Society for Sedimentary Geology
• Society of Economic Geologists
• University of Wyoming
Harvard Business Review E-Books
Available until June 15,2020
The Harvard Business Review Press' complete catalogue now available in ebook format.
Humanities Index Retrospective: 1907-1984
Available until June 30, 2020
Index to Legal Periodicals Retrospective: 1908-1981
Available until June 30, 2020

JoVE
Available until June 15, 2020
Create an account and receive free access to all JoVE videos. JoVE advances research and science education by making and publishing videos of scientific experiments from the top laboratories around the globe.

Kanopy
Kanopy's streaming video database has hundreds of films. It has made additional content freely available until April 14, 2020.
Library Literature & Information Science Retrospective: 1905-1983
Available until June 30, 2020
LIFE Magazine Archive: 1936-2000
Available until June 30, 2020
Loeb Classical Library
Available until June 30, 2020
Founded by James Loeb in 1911, Harvard University Press presents an interconnected, fully searchable, perpetually growing, virtual library of all that is important in Greek and Latin literature. Epic and lyric poetry; tragedy and comedy; history, travel, philosophy, and oratory; the great medical writers and mathematicians; those Church Fathers who made particular use of pagan culture — in short, our entire Greek and Latin Classical heritage is represented here with up-to-date texts and accurate English translations. More than 520 volumes of Latin, Greek, and English texts are available in a modern and elegant interface, allowing readers to browse, search, bookmark, annotate, and share content with ease.
Music Online: Classical Scores Library
Available until July 31, 2020
A series of four volumes with a mission to provide a reliable and authoritative source for scores of the classical canon, as well as a resource for the discovery of lesser-known contemporary works. The collections encompass all major classical musical genres and time periods from the Middle Ages to the 21st century. With full, study, piano, and vocal scores, this comprehensive collection will enhance the study of music history, performance, composition and theory for a variety of scholars.
The Nation Magazine Archive: 1865-2020
Available until June 30, 2020

National Emergency Library
A collection of books that supports emergency remote teaching, research activities, independent scholarship, and intellectual stimulation while universities, schools, training centers, and libraries are closed.

National Network for Equitable Library Service (NNELS) Repository
A repository of content owned and sustained by Canadian public libraries. Working with international partners, libraries, readers, and publishers (particularly Canadian ones) to make copies of books in accessible formats available to readers in Canada who have print disabilities.
The National Review Archive: 1914-2020
Available until June 30, 2020
The National Theatre Collection
Available until July 31, 2020
National Theatre Collection brings the stage to life through access to high definition streaming video of world-class productions and unique archival material offering significant insight into theatre and performance studies.
PEN: Practice-based Evidence in Nutrition
Practice-based Evidence in Nutrition (PEN) is a dynamic knowledge translation tool. The PEN System provides nutrition practitioners with ready access to timely, current and authoritative guidance on food and nutrition. It offers evidence-based answers to the questions encountered in every day practice.
People Magazine Archive: 1974-2000
Available until June 30, 2020
Project Muse (Standard Collection)
Project Muse has added many additional e-books and journals

1963 - present (varies by title, emphasis on recent years).
ProQuest Historical Newspapers: The Baltimore Sun
Available until June 30, 2020
ProQuest Historical Newspapers: Chicago Tribune
Available until June 30, 2020
ProQuest Historical Newspapers: Detroit Free Press
Available until June 30, 2020
ProQuest Historical Newspapers: New York Tribune / Herald Tribune
Available until June 30, 2020
ProQuest Historical Newspapers: The Philadelphia Inquirer
Available until June 30, 2020
ProQuest Historical Newspapers: Pittsburgh Post-Gazette
Available until June 30, 2020
PsycBOOKS
Available until August 31, 2020
PsycEXTRA
Available until August 31, 2020
PsycTESTS
Available until August 31, 2020
"PsycTESTS®, produced by the American Psychological Association (APA), serves as a repository for a growing selection of psychological tests and measures, including thousands of actual test instruments and test items that are available for immediate download and use in research and teaching. International in scope, PsycTESTS® also provides access to an increasing number of tests that are available in languages other than English. PsycTESTS® is an authoritative source of structured information about tests of relevance to psychologists and professionals in related fields such as psychiatry, management, business, education, social science, neuroscience, law, medicine, and social work. While focused on contemporary instances of test use, coverage spans more than a century."
PsycTHERAPY
Available until August 31, 2020
Readers’ Guide Retrospective: 1890-1982
Available until June 30, 2020
RIPM Jazz Periodicals
Available until May 31, 2020
RIPM Online
Available until May 31, 2020
The Retrospective Index with Full Text and the Preservation Series of North American and European Music Periodicals available in one database.
The Royal Shakespeare Company Collection
Available until July 31, 2020
These high-definition, surround-sound recordings of William Shakespeare’s plays featuring the world’s best Shakespearean actors, like David Tennant, Sir Antony Sher, Paapa Essiedu, and Simon Russell Beale, and directors like Robin Lough and Dewi Humphrey.
Science Magazine
Visit our “Coronavirus: Research, Commentary, and News” page to find the latest updates on what we know about the pandemic, the race for a cure, and the research and experts behind the headlines.
Social Sciences Index Retrospective: 1907-1983
Available until June 30, 2020
SpringerNature Textbooks
Available until July 31, 2020
Access more than 500 key textbooks across Springer Nature’s eBook subject collections for free. A list of titles across all disciplines can be found here: Free English Textbook Titles (All Disciplines)
Theatre in Video: Volume II
Available until July 31, 2020
While the texts of plays can serve as lasting documents, the productions are ephemeral; a live performance is gone when the curtain falls. And yet the collaborative elements of theatre in performance—the work of the actors, directors, and designers—have tremendous scholarly and educational value long after a production closes.