E-Resources for COVID-19

Over 200 Modern Art Books Online for Free.

Five decades of Met publications on art history.

166 academic titles freely available.

The Internet Archive offers over 20,000,000 freely downloadable books and texts. There is also a collection of 1.3 million modern eBooks that may be borrowed by anyone with a free archive.org account.

March 24, 2020, the Internet Archive will suspend waitlists for the 1.4 million (and growing) books, 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. Users will need to create an account to borrow books. launched on March 24, 2020, and closed on June 16, 2020.

After June 16, books in the National Emergency Library are available to one borrower at a time using controlled digital lending.

An initiative of the Internet Archive. Includes academic and popular titles. Users will need to have or create an Internet Archive account to access full text.

Freely accessible academic books, mainly in the area of humanities and social sciences. 6,700+ titles in English

Full text to books published before 1925.

Freely available photographs, books, maps, news footage, oral histories, personal letters, museum objects, artwork, government documents

Thousands of public domain books. When you do a search, it searches the store as well, so you will need to click on the "public domain" link after each search to exclude the books for purchase.

200 e-books, 3 journals

~700 e-books. A collection of titles published by The Ohio State University Press. The full text can be accessed for publications that currently are not in a traditional paper edition. Descriptive information only is available for publications in print and for sale. The content of embargoed OSU Press publications becomes available electronically five years from the publication date.

100+ Books, 87 journals. Make sure to check the box "Only search content I have access to." Open Access content: