UVM Libraries Research Guides: Temporarily Free & Expanded Collections (During Covid-19 Closures): Home

During the current Covid-19 situation many academic publishers are making their collections freely available to the academic community. While free most of these still require access via university authentication. Resources on this list have been set-up to prompt you to login for easy access. Contact Ask a Librarian for questions or help using these resources.

Electronic Books Repositories

The following sources each includes a large number of electronic books representing a wide range of disciplines. They are good starting places for locating books and book chapters.

HathiTrust Digital Library
Students, faculty, and staff of UVM can use HathiTrust to access copyrighted titles that the library owns and for which correspond to matching digitized version within HathiTrust. YOU MUST LOGIN AT THE HATHITRUST PAGE IN ORDER TO UTILIZE THIS SERVICE. Users will be able to read the book online, in the web browser, but will not be able to download the work in full.
This is an extension to the regular access to public domain materials that we already have through HathiTrust.

Full Text Resources

Coronavirus Research Database
Including coverage of the COVID-19 outbreak, this database curates openly available content related to coronaviruses. It includes thousands of open-access articles from the world’s leading publishers as well as current research from pre-print repositories such as arXiv and will continue to grow and evolve as more is learned about the pandemic.
Freely Available COVID-19 Resources for Clinical Care
This guide from the Dana Medical Library includes health sciences resources that have been made available during the Covid crisis.
HeinOnline Academic
HeinOnline Academic includes more than 100 million pages of multidisciplinary content in more than 100 subject areas, including history, political science, criminal justice, religious studies, international relations, women’s studies, pre-law, and many more. With more historical content than any other database, HeinOnline provides access to 300+ years of information on political development and the complete history of the creation of government and legal systems around the world. Among the many databases included, HeinOnline’s journal collection features nearly 2,800 periodicals relating to a variety of subject areas, with all coverage dating from inception to the most currently published issues in most cases.
Trial Access Available through December 15, 2020.
JSTOR (eBooks)
This resource is a searchable multidisciplinary database providesexpanded content thousands of books and book chapters to aid researchers during the current Covid-19 situation. Book chapters will display in search results. Expanded content can currently only be located by using the JSTOR search. More about participating publishers.
Enhanced content available until December 31, 2020.
JSTOR (Public Health Journals)
This resource is a searchable multidisciplinary database provides expanded content to journals in public health. Expanded content can currently only be located by using the JSTOR search. List of available titles and more info.
Enhanced content available until December 31, 2020.
Project Muse
Project Muse has made available a large number of electronic books from university presses. These include titles from Cornell University, MIT Press, Penn State University and many more. Expanded content can currently only be located by using the Project Muse search. Learn more about what publishers are participating.
Enhanced content dates of availability vary depending upon publisher.