Library Services and Academic Skills Support During COVID-19: Free Resources During Covid-19

• Resource Updates and Free Resources
• Open Access Resources

Many platforms, publishers and providers have been making some content freely available temporarily to students and institutions due to the global health crisis. We have coordinated with these platforms to make sure students have access to as many resources as possible. You will need to be signed in through Goldsmiths to access these resources, refer to the 'Accessing Online Resources' tab for instructions. For freely available resources, please check the Open Access section further down the page.

For databases, please check our A-Z Resource List. New resources are featured on the right hand side column, under New/Trial. If we only have temporary access to a resource, it will be marked clearly with Trial.

Ebooks

• Cambridge University Press are making higher education textbooks freely available in HTML format. They have also made available full access to their Cambridge Companions, Cambridge Histories and Cambridge Elements.  You will need to log-in through Goldsmiths.
• JSTOR are offering additional access to 30,000 ebooks. You will need to be logged in through Goldsmiths and search JSTOR directly.
• MIT Press ebooks have given us temporary free access to over 2,500 ebooks published by MIT. Available until the 31st of May, you will need to log-in through Goldsmiths.
• Oxford University Press are offering Law textbooks through Oxford Law Trove and Politics textbooks through Oxford Politics Trove, until 31st May 2020. You will need to log in through Goldsmiths.
• BibliU is an online platform providing access to a collection of full text ebooks. Access may be limited for some titles due to publisher restrictions. You will need to log-in through Goldsmiths, check this FAQ for access instructions. Access will expire on the 30th of June.
• Kortext is an online platform for ebooks and etextbooks. Kortext is not searchable like other platforms, you will need to access it via a direct link which you can find on this title list. Please check this FAQ for access instructions. Access will expire on the 30th of August.

Other Resources

We have also set up trials for lots of databases. For the full range of our access, check the A-Z Resource List. You will need your Goldsmiths log in to access these databases. Most of them are not included in the Library Search.

• SAGE Knowledge, SAGE Research Methods Video and SAGE Video, all available until the 23rd of June.
• Berg Fashion Library, Bloomsbury Applied Visual Arts, Bloomsbury Architecture Library and Bloomsbury Design Library are all available until the 30th of June.
• Box of Broadcasts is an on-demand TV and Radio service where you can find programmes from over 65 free-to-air channels. It is now available for students who are currently in the EU. You will need to log-in through Goldsmiths.
• Bloomsbury Collections, Bloomsbury Education and Childhood Studies, Fairchild Books Library and Screen Studies are available until the 30th of June. Additionally, our subscription to Drama Online has been upgraded to include all collections until the 30th of June.
• Music Online: Classical Scores Library is a resource of in-copyright scores to support teaching and research in classical music. In addition to our normal subscription, during the campus closure we have free access to two extra sets of scores (until 30th June 2020).

These resources have been made freely available, without needing institutional log-in.

• The Public Books Database is an excellent compilation of the current offer of free ebooks from dozens of different publishers. There are links to each publisher's website and also highlights from the free ebooks.
• The V&A (National Art Library) has compiled a list of free art and design e-resources. 
• NATE has compiled a list of free teaching resources. 
• JSTOR have made 26 Public Health journals freely available for everyone until June 30, 2020.
• JISC have made ebooks for further education freely available and some free vocational learning resources in Digital & IT, Education and Childcare, and Health and Social Care. 
• Oxford University have made their courses on Teaching Online and Blended Learning freely available until the end of May in order to help those tackling distance learning for the first time. You will need to register with an individual account - Oxford has published instructions here.
• The National Emergency Library, from Archive.org, is 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.
• British History Online has made their content freely available to individual users.
• Berghahn Books are offering free eBooks for individual users directly through their website until April 30. Use discount code REMOTE20. There is a limit of 4 ebooks per user. They're also constantly adding more Open Access ebook titles and they have made all their journals freely accessible online until June 30.