More publishers have made their resources open for a term of the next six weeks to 3 months.
Translated Texts for Historians E-Library Trial
We now have trial access to this resource until 30 April. This collection of ebooks brings together a wide range of early medieval resources (from the years 300-800), some of which are available in English for the first time. This is available for all Warburg readers.
http://0-online.liverpooluniversitypress.co.uk.catalogue.libraries.london.ac.uk/series/tthe
Senate House Library Bloomsbury e-book trial
Senate House Library have a trial collection of all Bloomsbury academic e-books, including cultural history and medieval studies. This will work for all Warburg staff and students. Senate House is also now using the very flexible LibGuides A-Z.
British History Online
Our colleagues at the Institute of Historical Research have made British History Online open
https://0-www-british--history-ac-uk.catalogue.libraries.london.ac.uk/
OpenLibrary.org
The Internet Archive’s OpenLibrary is available all of the time, with waitlists for titles. They’ve released the ‘National Emergency Library’ and suspended waitlists for anyone with an Internet Archive account. https://blog.archive.org/2020/03/30/internet-archive-responds-why-we-released-the-national-emergency-library/
There are many relevant English language books to be found there.
Openedition
The French site Openedition is usually freemium, but some collections such as the Presses universitaires de Rouen et du Havre have become open access
https://books.openedition.org/purh/
Lists of open access resources
Our colleagues at the Roman and Hellenic Library at the Institute of Classics have made a comprehensive list of all Open Access resources for classicists:
https://library.ics.sas.ac.uk/open-access-resources
The Consulta Universitaria del Greco (CUG, Association of the Italian Academic Hellenists) has a new Forum with a list of open-access resources (exceptionally available in this emergency situation) (http://www.sitocug.it/?p=2514)
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