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.

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

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.
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).
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.