WiLS has received the following communication, valid until June 30, 2020:
With many faculty and students working and learning off-campus due to the COVID-19 public health crisis, the need for remote access to their library’s resources has become essential. To help users more easily connect with content on our platform to which they are entitled via their affiliated institution’s holdings, Project MUSE is temporarily enabling users who have created personal MyMUSE accounts to link those accounts to their institution and gain access to entitled content.Read more
If cabin fever has set in, take a short coffee break and join us for an overview of OpenAthens, federated authentication. In this session EBSCO will share the problems it aims to solve for library end users and system administrators followed by a brief demonstration of the end user login experience and administrative dashboard for managing authentication. Finally, they will provide an overview of the additional usage reporting you can leverage when using OpenAthens. Read more
WiLS has received the following from our vendor partner ProQuest:
Dear Colleague, ProQuest just announced the launch of a Coronavirus Research Database in response to the rapidly growing need for authoritative content related to the novel coronavirus (COVID-19). The new cross-disciplinary resource enables researchers to search and discover full-text articles, dissertations and other content from key publishers in one place.Read more
We received the following communication from Wolters Kluwer:
At Wolters Kluwer we understand the unique challenges colleges and universities are facing due to the COVID-19 pandemic and want to support our customers as they move to an online learning environment. To help you make this transition, I would like to offer your institution complimentary access to a selection of products for the next sixty days, complete with setup, support and training for users. These products have been specifically selected as they can help your faculty and students with the challenges of online learning.
Our Ovid customer support and training teams are ready to help you get started. To receive your complimentary access visit http://tools.ovid.com/remotelearning/ and complete a brief request form. A member of our Ovid Customer Support team will contact you directly to begin the setup process.
WiLS vendor partner Bloomsbury Digital Resources is offering free, no-obligation, unlimited access to their resources until the end of May 2020. To see the resources available and to request this access, please check out this post on their site.
Dear library colleagues I hope this finds you all well. I appreciate at the moment that many of you will be facing disruption in both your professional and personal lives. I’m writing to outline how we are currently helping the research community broadly, as well as to underscore that we’re here to help you in your role as a librarian.
Free access to COVID-19 research
As scholarly publishers the work we do in partnership with editors, scholarly societies and librarians to curate, make discoverable and rapidly disseminate research means we have a critical role to play in the current emergency.
Our CEO, Annie Callanan outlines how we have been working to provide the research community with free access to COVID-19 researchhere.
We have also launched a microsite consolidating journal and book resources on COVID-19. This is currently being updated based on daily keyword scans of articles in production to ensure that we are making all COVID-19 research free at the point of publication.
Support for remote learning
We understand that many of you, along with your library users, will be making adjustments to your professional and personal lives as you switch to working from home and adapt to remote teaching.
We do not anticipate any disruption to service on our Taylor & Francis Online and Taylor & Francis eBooks platforms. Our staff are on hand to help if users are experiencing any difficulties with remote access, and we will ensure that guidance on how to do this remains updated.
Instructions on enabling remote access for Taylor & Francis Online are available. We are currently in the process of adding additional options to support off-campus access and will be updating this page in the next few weeks as these become available. We will also notify you by email at that point.
We are proud to be working with several partners to support access to our ebooks and etextbooks. For students who are no longer able to access core textbooks on campus because their university has closed, we are providing free access to ebooks through our partnerships with VitalSource, Kortext (in conjunction with JISC), and Red Shelf through the remainder of the Spring 2020 semester.
Print resources
We are working with our suppliers and distributors to minimise disruption to print distribution journals, but we do anticipate there may be some problems with getting print copies to you.
For books, we have temporarily stopped offering print inspection copies, print desk copies, and print media review copies. We are committed to ensuring customers have access to books and given the increasing uncertainty on print delivery, our ebook option for these services is our most reliable delivery and access option.
Our customer service teams are on hand to support you at:
Taylor & Francis Journals –
Taylor & Francis eBooks –
We will continue to work with all of our stakeholders through this crisis to champion trusted, peer-reviewed research and ensure it is made available as rapidly as possible to enable those involved in policy making to make informed decisions, and to expedite drug discovery and treatments to help those who are most in need.
We at SAGE want to make every effort to provide your members the access needed to our resources during this unprecedented time. Jeff, feel free to pass along the below message to your members.
SAGE would like to provide 90-day access to our digital resources by IP authentication. (Unfortunately, we can’t legally drop the paywall altogether due to contracts with license partners and doing so would jeopardize usage analytics for customers in need of ROI reporting. However, we want to make things as simple for you as possible.)
For access to SAGE Video, SAGE Research Methods Video and SAGE KnowledgeBooks & Referenceplease fill out this form to receive institution-wide access. We will do our best to turn on access within 24 hours, but due to demand it may take longer.
Our commitment to you is that these requests will not be treated as sales opportunities, and the only follow-up you will receive from us will be to make sure you have everything you need to make these resources work for your campus. For the immediate future, SAGE will be pausing additional email outreach and contacting you only when we have resources that directly support your library, faculty and students.
You should also know that SAGE has also taken steps to ensure the continuity of our business and service to our customers; our platforms will be operating as normal and any support issues should be logged in the usual way.
Students log into RedShelf (https://redshelf.com/) using their school email address. If they do not have a RedShelf account, they can register for one. Students can then add 7 no-cost titles from participating publishers to their “My Shelf”
Once logged in, they will click on “Explore” to select 7 no-cost titles at one time from participating publishers. If they do not have a BookShelf account, they can register for one.
If you need further assistance regarding textbooks, please contact Lisa Kostecki () – Director, Channel Sales.
Here are some additional resources and actions that may be of interest to you:
We will fast track and publish open access, without any article publishing charges, accepted research articles from your faculty that are relevant to the current pandemic.
If you need access to additional SAGE resources, please let Danielle Afdem () know – in fact, we welcome requests and suggestions from you about how SAGE can make your life easier at this time.
WiLS has received this information from Overdrive:
In response to the COVID-19 Crisis OverDrive has secured agreements from the list of publishers posted below to make any of their titles in your collection that were purchased prior to March 1, 2020 “always available”. To be clear, any titles in your collect from the listed publishers included here, those titles will be available for Simultaneous Use until April 30th, with the potential for that date to be extended. We hope this makes your existing resources go further at no additional cost with OverDrive saluting the publishers who jumped in to support our partners at this critical time.
Our records show that your library has titles from one or more of this group of publishers:
Oxford University Press
Guilford Publications
Rowman & Littlefield
ABC-CLIO
Princeton University Press
Sourcebooks (title specific, details pending)
Jacana Media Pty Ltd
Taylor & Francis (title specific, details pending)
Springer Nature
TrueLake Holdings Limited
ZG Audio (Beijing)
Juvenile & Children’s Publishing House
Tianjin Booky
China Publishing Group Digital Media
Huawen Tianxia
People’s Medical Publishing House
Lingzi Media
Zengogo Children Book Publisher
We expect more publishers to support this effort and will post further details when available. These are unprecedented times and it is a privileged to be a partner with institutions that can help so many people during this crisis. Best wishes to you and those that are closest to you.
Working together with their information partners, EBSCO would like to alleviate the impact of COVID-19 on your library by extending free and expanded access to academic content. We hope these resources help your students and faculty as they adjust to remote learning and researching.
Free EBSCO eBooks™ UU Upgrades and Special Pricing
They are working with more than 300 publishers to provide free upgrades for existing e-book holdings as well as discounted pricing for UU access e-book models.
Complimentary UU Access to Harvard Business Review E-Book Collection
This includes the complete catalog of e-books published by Harvard Business School Publishing with more than 600 e-books, including 400+ monographs, seminal works and 150+ article compilations.
EBSCO Faculty Select This simplified version of EBSCO Faculty Select includes access to OER material as well as the option to discover more than 225,000 DRM-free EBSCO eBooks.
Lifted User Limits (UNTIL JUNE 30) The following databases have had their user limits removed until June 30th:
Africa-Wide Information
Arctic & Antarctic Regions™
CAB Abstracts®
CINAHL® Complete *
CINAHL® Plus *
CINAHL® Plus with Full Text *
CINAHL® with Full Text *
Fish, Fisheries & Aquatic Biodiversity Worldwide
Health and Psychosocial Instruments
International Political Science Abstracts
Mental Measurements Yearbook™
Mental Measurements Yearbook™ with Tests in Print
Mental Measurements Yearbook™ with Tests in Print International
Philosopher’s Index
Philosopher’s Index with Full Text
RISM Series A/II: Music Manuscripts after 1600
Social Work Abstracts™
SPORTDiscus™ with Full Text *
Waters & Oceans Worldwide
See these academic resources and more on the EBSCO site
WiLS vendor partner Docuseek2 is offering additional discounts for WiLS members this Spring! Until July 31st, you get an additional 5% off of list on any purchase of 15 titles or more. If you need to encumber end of year money, their tokens are a great way to spend money now at the sale price and select titles later.
There’s an even deeper discount available on the Anthropology Collection! Until July 31, take a whopping 25% off the list price on this amazing collection of over 400 titles!
Check out this flyer for more information and reach out to Jeff Brunner () for more information!
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