Free digital textbooks and e-books
These vendors are offering free access to course materials through the rest of the semester:
Redshelf Free eBook Access Program
"As the COVID-19 outbreak escalated in recent weeks, countless campuses have moved their on-ground courses to an online format and, in many cases, have asked students to leave campus altogether. Many of those students simply can't access previously-purchased materials now locked in their dorm rooms.
Through our RedShelf Responds initiative we are providing students no-cost access to digital textbooks for the rest of the semester, thanks to the generosity of our publishing partners."
Information and publisher list:https://www.about.redshelf.com/redshelfresponds
Vitalsource
"To assist students at disrupted semester-calendar schools who are losing access to course materials due to Covid-19 campus closures, the companies below agree to offer access to etexts at no charge to students whose classes have moved online from March 16 through May 25, 2020. Students will be able to access the expansive catalog of etexts from participating publishers through the VitalSource Bookshelf app effective immediately"
Information: https://get.vitalsource.com/vitalsource-helps
Participating publisher listhttps://get.vitalsource.com/vitalsource-helps-full-list-of-participants?hsLang=en-us
Cengage Learning
For U.S. higher education institutions experiencing unplanned, mid-semester impacts due to COVID-19, Cengage is offering students free access to all our digital platforms and 14,000 ebooks through Cengage Unlimited, for the remainder of this semester.
https://www.cengage.com/covid-19-support/
National Emergency Library
Internet Archive will suspend waitlists for the 1.4 million (and growing) books in our lending library by creating a National Emergency Library to serve the nation's displaced learners. This suspension will run through June 30, 2020, or the end of the US national emergency, whichever is later.
https://archive.org/details/nationalemergencylibrary?sort=-downloads
Free resources for instructors & students: resources that will help you and your students experience as little disruption as possible as you move to online teaching and learning.
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