Transy Library: Remote Instruction Resources: Free Resources

Free sources are already there!

Many publishers are opening up content for a limited time period. Jason, Kevin and Ann have been working to add free content to the library interfaces that you are already familiar with. You can access these resources by searching like you usually do.

New free resources already included in the library catalog include

Additional Free Resources

Ebook Central
Proquest is providing unlimited access to all previously owned titles in eBook Central. These books can also be found when searching the Transy catalog.
JSTOR
JSTOR has added 35,000 free ebooks to its platform through June 30, 2020 for institutions that already have some ebooks through them (Transy does).

Vital Source
VitalSource and publishers to provide free access to seven eTextbooks to students affected by COVID-19 campus closures. Students need to create a free log-in with their Transy email to access.
RedShelf
In collaboration with the academic publishing community, RedShelf is providing students with free access to seven extextbooks. Students need to create a free log-in with their Transy email to access.
Cambridge University Press
Cambridge University Press is making higher education textbooks in HTML format free to access online during the coronavirus outbreak. Over 700 textbooks, published and currently available, on Cambridge Core are available regardless of whether textbooks were previously purchased. Free access is available until the end of May 2020.
Cambridge University Press - Texts in the History of Political Thought
Blue Books” in History of Political Thought are all open access until May 31.

Oxford University Press
Oxford University Pressprovides a number of free resources that will help you and your students experience as little disruption as possible as you move to online teaching and learning.
University of Michigan Press eBook Collection
Beginning on Friday, March 20, access restrictions will be removed for all 1,150+ titles in the UMP EBC until the end of April 2020. Note they will be free-to-read, not to download, during this time.
University of Florida
Discover free and openly available resources (OERs)
EBSCO's Facuty Select
Search more than 12,400 Open Educational Resources, and copy/paste links to relevant materials into your Learning Management System (LMS) or send links to the material directly to students to access. Also included are more than 225,000 DRM-free EBSCO eBooks. The books are not free. If you discover an ebook of interest, contact the library to discuss potentially purchasing.
Accel5
Free Content through June 30, 2020 from Accel5 about Remote Work and Stress Management
Internet Archive Emergency Library
A collection of free books with older in publication date
HathiTrust
A collection of free books books digitized as part if the google digitization project but managed by the owning libraries. Full text content is mostly early publication dates

Thanks to Georgetown College Librarians for initially compiling this list.