To support remote teaching and research during the COVID-19, many publishers and content providers offer free access to their online resources. Available contents for HU members are as follows.
*You can search for available e-journals and e-books at HU from following online catalogues.
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The resources for which trial access has ended are as follows.
Provider | Details of contents | Resources | Expiration | Access conditions from off-campus |
n/a EBSCO | 600 e-books | Harvard Business Publishing Collection | 31 May | VPN Connection or Shibboleth/Institutional login Required |
n/a Taylor & Francis | Over 140,000 ebooks | Taylor & Francis ebooks | 27 Jun. | VPN Connection Required |
n/a ProQuest | Over 20,000 ejournals | ProQuest Central | 30 Jun. | VPN Connection or Shibboleth/Institutional login Required |
n/a ProQuest | 2.25 million dissertations | ProQuest Dissertations and Theses Global | 30 Jun. | VPN Connection or Shibboleth/Institutional login Required |
n/a ProQuest | Over 180,000 ebooks | Ebook Central | 30 Jun. | VPN Connection or Shibboleth/Institutional login Required |
n/a ProQuest | Over 60,000 video materials | Academic Video Online | 30 Jun. | VPN Connection Required |
n/a Oxford University Press | Over 30,000 academic and Introductory ebooks, handbook and reference databeses
| University Press Scholarship Online (including OSO)
Oxford English Dictionary Online
Oxford Research Encyclopedias
Oxford Handbooks Online
Very Short Introductions Online
| 30 Jun. | VPN Connection or Shibboleth/Institutional login Required |
n/a Oxford University Press | 1,400 medical ebooks & manual of style
| Oxford Medicine Online
AMA Manual of Style | 19 Jul. | VPN Connection or Shibboleth/Institutional login Required |
n/a Oxford University Press | 357 ejournals
| Oxford Journals Collection | 24 Jul. | VPN Connection or Shibboleth/Institutional login Required |
n/a De Gruyter
| 75,000 e-books published from 1650 to 2016 | De Gruyter | 30 Jun. 31 Jul.
| VPN Connection Required |
n/a EBSCO | Over 17,500 ejournals | Academic Search Ultimate Business Source Ultimate Humanities Source Ultimate Sociology Source Ultimate Applied Science & Technology Source Ultimate | 2 Aug. | VPN Connection or Shibboleth/Institutional login Required |
n/a Thieme | 3 ejournals & Full-text resource for methods in synthetic organic chemistry (More information)
| Thieme Connect(Synthesis, Synlett, Synfacts)
Science of Synthesis | 20 Aug.
| VPN Connection Required |
n/a Bentham Science | 130 ejournals [Accessible period:2000-2020] | Bentham Science Publishers | 31 Aug. | VPN Connection Required |
n/a JSTOR | 32,000 ebooks | JSTOR | 30 Jun. 31 Aug. | VPN Connection Required |
n/a ASME | 31 ejournals | American Society for Mechanical Engineers journals | 9 Dec. 2020 | VPN Connection Required |
n/a:Not available
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Complimentary Expanded Access Specifics Sheet by ICOLC (International Coalition of Library Consortia) *Open Access contents are only available for HU members. Please refer to column Scope Limitations.Global research on coronavirus disease (COVID-19) by WHO[Inquiry]
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