This is just a quick update about the free resources that publishers have been offering us during the Covid-19 period and the work we are doing to make them discoverable. When I say ‘we’ it is Peter K (Ezproxy), Nicole and Wendy (loading MARC record sets) and Alison and Linda (creating database records) who have been doing the complex work that is required.
We have records for all the free textbooks from Cambridge University Press, SpringerNature and Wolters Kluwer in Horizon now, and Wendy has loaded the 1600 Artfilms video records.
The table below is a progress summary.
| Database record | Horizon records | MultiSearch | |
| Artfilms digital | Yes | Yes | Not yet |
| Cambridge textbooks | No | Yes | soon |
| EBSCO Harvard Business Review ebook collection | Yes | Yes | Not yet |
| Springer textbooks | No | Yes | Not yet |
| Wolters Kluwer textbooks | No | Yes | Not yet |
| LWW Health Library textbooks | No | Yes | Not yet |
| Ovid databases (Acland’s; Bates; 5 min consult) | Yes | Yes | Not yet |
| Gale health and wellness database | Yes | No | Not yet |
| Gale OneFile entrepreneurship database | Yes | not yet | Not yet |
The following are almost completed. When we receive our next Serials Solutions record file, which we are expecting next week, we will load records in Horizon.
| Elsevier ScienceDirect textbooks | No | soon | soon |
| Project Muse books and journals | No | soon | soon |
| JSTOR archives and public health collection | No | soon | soon |
| World scientific journals | No | Soon | soon |
The reason why MultiSearch is showing as ‘not yet’ or ‘soon’ is because it takes a few days for the titles we track in Intota or load in Horizon to be ingested in Summon (MultiSearch).
Other free resources that we are starting to work on:
Cambridge Companions, Elements, Histories
De Gruyter ebooks
Knovel
ProQuest databases (ProQuest Central, Academic videos; PQDT Global)
For more information about these resources please see the COVID-19 Special Resources libguide. We are continuing to update this and add notes as we make the resources discoverable.