COVID-19: resources made available by publishers

BSI is making freely available relevant standards including Hygiene standards, Personal Protective Equipment (PPE) standards, Risk management and business standards, Ventilator standards

All 700 textbooks published and currently available in HTML format on Cambridge Core are available regardless of whether textbooks were previously purchased. Free access is available until the end of May 2020 and a full list of HTML textbooks published on the platform can be found here.

In addition, Queen Mary will get access to all Cambridge Companions.

The Press has made a collection of more than 80 relevant book chapters and journal articles freely available on Cambridge Core. The Press has also joined the Wellcome Trust and more than 30 leading publishers in committing to making all of our COVID-19 and coronavirus-related publications, and the available data supporting them, immediately accessible in PubMed Central (PMC) and other public repositories. Articles are drawn from journals including Epidemiology & Infection, Prehospital and Disaster Medicine, Infection Control & Hospital Epidemiology, and from Animal Health Research Reviews, among others. Future articles will be added to the collection once they have been published. Learn more here.

All Equinox journal issues published in the last 12 months will be opened and all new issues  will be freely accessible until the crisis abates

The RPS has made Pharmacy Knowledge available at no cost until the start of the Autumn term 2020-2021. Pharmacy Knowledge gives academics the ability to set up reading lists and teach from a comprehensive range of Pharmacy focused content. 

CAS COVID-19 Antiviral Candidate Dataset - the open source dataset of nearly 50K chemical substances includes antiviral drugs and related compounds that are structurally similar to known antivirals for use in applications including research, data mining, machine learning, and analytics;

COVID-19 Protein Target Thesaurus - this collection of human-curated protein target synonyms from CAS REGISTRY^® and the CAS thesaurus provides additional points of discovery to supplement your research.

Clarity Informatics have advised that they will grant access to educational bodies whose students have had to return home and are now outside the UK.

In the first instance you should contact your university about this, they in turn will need to contact Clarity Informatics to arrange access.

To support the nursing community RCNi have developed a dedicated COVID-19 resource centre that is free to access for all nurses and frontline NHS staff working with coronavirus patients. The resource centre includes peer-reviewed evidence-based articles and e-learning modules which address some of the areas of care that COVID-19 patients may require, as well as resources designed to help staff stay well during this demanding and stressful period.

Students and nurses returning to clinical practice who are on the COVID-19 temporary register will need additional support and training, so RCNi has also put together a collection of evidence-based articles and e-learning modules aimed especially at them. This collection of resources can be accessed via our main COVID-19 resource centre directly by visiting this page.