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.
Ancestry Library Edition
Available until August 31, 2020
Ancestry Library Edition is a new genealogy research tool created for the library market and provides patrons instant access to a wide range of unique resources for genealogical and historical research. With more than 1.5 billion names in over 4,000 databases, Ancestry Library Edition includes records from the United States Census; military records; court, land and probate records; vital and church records; directories; passenger lists and more! These collections are continuously expanding, with new content added every business day.
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.

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!

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.
Ebook Central
Multidisciplinary selection of e-books available in full-text for reading online, printing, and downloading.
EBSCO eBook Academic Collection
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

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.
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.

National Emergency Library
Available until June 16, 2020
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 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.
Project Muse (Standard Collection)
Project Muse has added many additional e-books and journals

1963 - present (varies by title, emphasis on recent years).
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
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.
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.