E-resources during the corona crisis
Owing to the corona crisis and the associated university and library closures, print media unfortunately cannot be used at present. Accordingly, being able to access a comprehensive range of electronic media for teaching, study and research is all the more important.
Numerous providers have already responded to the increased demand by granting access to their e-books and e-journals for the duration of the crisis.
Below is a list of electronic resources which on the one hand are relevant to general teaching and research and on the other deal specifically with current research relating to COVID-19.
This list is constantly updated.
Last updated: 3 June 2020, noon
- ACM Digital Library: Several journals, magazines, conference papers and e-books until 30 June 2020
- AMBOSS: All medical content on the learning platform until the end of the summer semester (only for teaching staff after registration); all scientific content free for one month (only after registration)
- Annual Reviews: All journals, initially until 15 June 2020
- Beck-online: Extended remote access to the database until further notice (access to all university members via VPN client after personal registration)
- Beltz: the complete Beltz e-book portfolio is licensed until the end of June 2020
(access to all university members via VPN client) - Berghahn: Several journal until 30 June 2020
- Cambridge: Over 700 electronic textbooks, e-books from the Cambridge Companions series, reference books from the Cambridge Histories series, and e-books and articles from the Cambridge Elements series, all until the end of May 2020 (access to university members only)
- Deutscher Apotheker Verlag / WVG / S.Hirzel Verlag: 35 textbooks until 30 June 2020 (access to all university members via VPN client)
- Duke University Press: All e-books and journals until further notice (access to university members only)
- DynaMed: Free trial of the entire database
- EBSCO Harvard Business Review Press: All e-books from HBR and HBR Ascent until 30 June 2020 (access to all university members via VPN client)
- Elsevier: Textbooks on ScienceDirect until 20 June 2020 / List of titles in Excel file (access to university members only)
- Energie.de, portal of the energy sector: All issues of EW, Netzpraxis, ET and Euroheat & Power since 2019, until 30 June 2020
- IG Publishing: e-book Collection of Business Expert Press (900 title) and Packt Publishing (595 Ttitle) until 15 July 2020 (access to all university members via VPN client)
- JoVE: All videos in the Science Education section until 15 June 2019
- JSTOR: 26 public health journals until 30 June 2020
- Microbiology Society: Several journals until further notice
- MIT Press: Several e-books until 30 June 2020 (access to university members only)
- Mohr Siebeck: The complete ebook portfolio is licensed until 31 December 2020 (access to all university members via VPN client)
- Owlit: all modules of the Handelsblatt trade media (e.g.: DER BETRIEB, der Aufsichtsrat etc.) and user modules of the IWW Institute (notes on use: first registration with your own email and login on the website is required, then select the item “My subscriptions”, enter the activation code hbfm-owlit429 and click “add”)
- Project Muse: Journals and e-books from over 40 publishers (periods of free access vary)
- Proquest Academic Complete: 183,000 e-books until 3 July 2020 (access to university members only)
- Proquest Central: Test access to the database until 6 July 2020 (access to university members only)
- RIPM: Trial access to the databases RIPM North American and European Music Periodicals (Preservation Series) and RIPM Jazz Periodicals until 31 May 2020 (access to university members only)
- Springer: Over 500 digital textbooks initially until end of July 2020 (access to university members only)
- University of California Press: Over 180 book series, including The Mark Twain Library and contributions and works by John Dryden until the end of June 2020 (access to university members only)
- University of Chicago Press: Twelve new journals that have been only available on print so far and works from about 100 series, including 325 titles from the National Bureau of Economic Research until the end of June 2020 (access to university members only)
- Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht: The complete V&R e-book portfolio is licensed until the end of July 2020 (access to all university members via VPN client)
- WILA Arbeitsmarkt: Several publications of 2020 until 4 June 2020 (access to university members only)
- World Scientific: All journals until 30 June 2020
- Yale University Press: titles from about 85 book series. Over 1,000 works from the disciplines of history, law, literature, theology and religion until the end of June 2020 (access to university members only)
Following the appeal by international health experts on 13 March 2020, numerous editors and publishers have agreed to make their publications relating to COVID-19 along with the underlying data immediately available in PubMed Central (PMC) and other suitable public repositories.
A list of the participating publishers and journals as well as tips on how to search for content in PubMed can be found here.
In addition, the following publishers have compiled special thematic pages listing freely accessible digital resources on COVID-19 and the management of epidemics/pandemics in general:
- Bioone: Articles on COVID-19
- BMJ: Articles, book chapters and news on COVID-19
- Cambridge Core Collection: Journal articles and book chapters on COVID-19
- Cell Press: Articles on COVID-19
- Cochrane Library: Special collections with reviews on COVID-19
- Elsevier: Articles and news on COVID-19
- Emerald: Journal articles and book chapters on COVID-19 and epidemiology
- European Respiratory Journal: Articles on COVID-19
- JAMA Network: Articles, interviews and maps on COVID-19
- Journal of Medical Virology: Special issue on COVID-19
- Karger: Articles on COVID-19
- New England Journal of Medicine: Articles on COVID-19
- Oxford University Press: Articles on COVID-19
- Ovid: Articles, news and tools on COVID-19
- Science: Articles and news on COVID-19
- Taylor & Francis: Articles on COVID-19
- Wiley: Articles on COVID-19