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Art & Architecture ePortal (A&AePortal)
eBook resource that features scholarship in the history of art, architecture, decorative arts, photography, and design.
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Collection of the University of Michigan Press’s scholarly ebooks. Areas of focus are performing arts, classical studies, political science, American studies (especially disability and class studies), Asian and African studies. NOTE: Available through August 31, 2020. Books are readable online and not downloadable.

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Cambridge University Press
Cambridge University Press is making higher education textbooks in HTML format free to access online during the coronavirus outbreak. Over 700 textbooks, published and currently available on Cambridge Core are available online to students through their university library regardless of whether textbooks were previously purchased. We are also providing free access to research related to the coronavirus. The Press plays a global role in education and research and shares its University’s mission to contribute to society through its work. Sharing that research can play an important role in tackling shared threats such as this. More than 80 relevant book chapters and journal articles are available, 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.
Duke University Press
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The Ohio State University Press
For the duration of this crisis, all Ohio State University Press monographs, and the linguistics textbook language files, will be open and free to use through the Ohio State University Libraries’ Institutional Repository, The Knowledge Bank (https://kb.osu.edu/).

University of Michigan Press Ebook Collection
Collection of the University of Michigan Press’s scholarly ebooks. Areas of focus are performing arts, classical studies, political science, American studies (especially disability and class studies), Asian and African studies. NOTE: Available through April 30, 2020. Books are readable online and not downloadable.

More information can be found here: https://blog.press.umich.edu/2020/03/ump-covid-19-free-access/

Music 265: History of Western Music I: Accessing Materials Online

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