In order to support institutions and students moving to remote instruction & learning, many publishers are offering some or all of their e-resources freely for a period of few months.
In addition to the resources that our library offers, you can now try, for example:
MIT Press Direct - e-books
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The MIT Press is offering complimentary access to its catalogue of more than 2,770 e-books on MIT Press Direct through the end of July 2020.
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E-books are downloadable by chapters in PDF.
AccessEngineering by McGraw-Hill
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AccessEngineering is an interactive online reference and learning tool that helps engineering students access knowledge.
It draws upon a repository of the world's most important engineering information, to help find solutions to real world problems, answer important questions, and get the right results fast.
It comprises dynamic online features, such as instructional, faculty made videos, calculators, interactive tables and charts, as well as personalization tools allowing users to organize crucial project information as they work.
Elsevier e-textbooks
| Direct Access | Remote Access (off campus) |
Elsevier has granted access to all 256 textbooks for all active ScienceDirect customers.
Statista - Insights and facts across 600 industries and 50+ countries
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The CTU Library has organised trial access to Statista until 30th June 2020. Statista provides quantitative data and statistics on over 80,000 topics from more than 22,500 sources. Also included are reports, infographics and revenue forecasts on over 400 industries. With Statista, you can access the most recent and relevant statistics and studies on a specific topic by simply entering a keyword.
Remote Access:
- Click Login then Campus Access.
- Select CVUT from the list of institutions and click Login (section If you have access).
- This will prompt you to enter your usual CTU username and password.
SPIE. Digital Library
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SPIE Digital Library is the most extensive resource available on optics and photonics, providing unprecedented access to more than 200,000 technical papers from SPIE Journals and Conference Proceedings from 1990 to the present. You have access to:
- Peer-reviewed journals such as SPIE's flagship monthly journal, Optical Engineering (OE), which reports on research and development in all areas of optics, photonics, and imaging science and engineering.
- Conference proceedings, including recordings of oral presentations given at SPIE conferences along with presentation slides, and full-text papers.
- SPIE Digital Library is the most extensive resource available on optics and photonics, providing unprecedented access to more than 200,000 technical papers from SPIE Journals and Conference Proceedings from 1990 to the present. More than 17,000 new technical papers are added annually.
IEEE has partnered with Now Publishers to bring the Foundations and Trends Technology eBooks Collection to the IEEE Xplore digital library. CTU has temporary access through 30th June.
This collection of high-quality e-book titles provides a quick, trustworthy introduction to emerging topics in engineering and computer science. The collection includes approximately 525 titles dating back to 2004,and is an exceptional resource for graduate students, corporate engineers, and researchers exploring a new topic or looking for a high-level introduction to a new subject area.
SpringerNature e-textbooks
Access to more than 500 key textbooks across Springer Nature’s eBook subject collections for free. In addition, there is a number of German-language Springer medical training books on emergency nursing freely accessible. These books will be available via SpringerLink until at least the end of July.
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MathSciNet, AMS journals - remote access
As a service during the COVID-19 crisis, the American Mathematical Society would like to assist in maintaining access to online products to which CTU subscribes. MathSciNet offers access to a carefully maintained and easily searchable database of reviews, abstracts and bibliographic information for mathematical sciences literature.
IEEE eLearning Library - online
CTU now has access to the IEEE eLearning Library, which includes hundreds of hours of courses in new and emerging technologies until 30 June 2020.
Please visit ieee.org/ieeexplore and click on What Can I Access to view what you have access to, or go to Browse>Courses to see all eLearning course topics.
For remote access click on Institutional Sign In.
JoVE Science Education - video library to aid remote teaching & learning
In times of unprecedented change during this pandemic response, we understand that our science and education communities are experiencing great disruption. We want to do what we can to help at a time when flexibility and adaptability are crucial.
As many colleges and universities are making the difficult decision to move to remote teaching and learning models, JoVE is happy to provide all of our Education video content free to use in STEM teaching efforts through June 15th.
Unlimited Access to ProQuest Ebook Central Holdings
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ProQuest has partnered with more than 50 publishers to support libraries in providing unlimited access to Ebook Central holdings for all patrons – at no extra charge.
ProQuest Ebook Central customers impacted by COVID-19 will get unlimited access to all owned titles from these publishers through mid-June. This means that all licenses – including single-user and three-user models – will automatically convert to unlimited access during that period, helping librarians bridge the gap for their patrons in this rapidly changing environment.
Unlimited Access EBSCO eBooks
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EBSCO understand the extraordinary demands on libraries to support online instruction during the COVID-19 outbreak and they are working with publishers to provide free upgrades for existing e-book holdings.
Until June 30, 2020, you have an unlimited number of simultaneous access (UU models) for titles in the EBSCO eBooks collection for free.
View Growing List of Participating Publishers
Scientific information - COVID-19
Are you interested in up-to-date scientific information about the 2019 novel Coronavirus?
Resources made free during the Coronavirus COVID-19 emergency:
- LitCovid - New from the National Library of Medicine (US), this is a curated literature hub for tracking up-to-date scientific information about the 2019 novel Coronavirus. It is the most comprehensive resource on the subject, providing a central access to 1642 (and growing) relevant articles in PubMed.
- WHO - Topic page from the World Health Organization, an agency of the United Nations that focuses on world public health.
- DynaMed a clinician-focused tool designed to facilitate efficient and evidence-based patient care. Rigorous and daily review of medical literature by physician and specialist staff ensures that timely and objective analysis, synthesis and guidance are at our users' fingertips.
- Wiley Online Library is making a collection of journal articles and book chapters on coronavirus research freely available to the global scientific community.
- EBSCOMedical COVID-19 Updates & Information
- SpringerNature
- John Hopkins GIS Map of Current Cases An interactive web-based dashboard to track COVID-19 in real time. From Johns Hopkins Whiting School of Engineering.
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