Penn State University Press has partnered with EBSCO Information Services to provide unlimited access to Press e-books for library clients through the EBSCO platform until June 30. The Press is offering discounted pricing to libraries through EBSCO for unlimited access to e-titles beyond that date.
In addition, more than 400 of the Press’ e-books hosted on Project Muse are available to read for free to the public through June 30, as well as more than 200 e-books hosted on JSTOR. Journals hosted on Project Muse are free through the end of May.
Penn State University Press has signed a statement of support for the National Emergency Library, an initiative by the Internet Archive to serve the nation’s displaced learners. The collection includes over 1.4 million e-books from the 1920s to 1990s, acquired and digitised by the Internet Archive, that are not covered by other e-book collections.
Through WebAccess login, Penn State students and employees can access JSTOR through the University Libraries via https://libraries.psu.edu/eresources/psu00720 and Project Muse via https://libraries.psu.edu/eresources/psu01334. Penn State Alumni Association members can access JSTOR and Project Muse via login to the Alumni Library Online through its databases page, https://alumni.libraries.psu.edu/databases.
Interested readers not affiliated with Penn State can find Penn State University Press books and journals on Project Muse at https://about.muse.jhu.edu/resources/freeresourcescovid19/ and on JSTOR at https://about.jstor.org/covid19/expanded-access-to-ebooks/.
EBSCO offers library resources to customers in academic, medical, K–12, public library, law, corporate and government markets.
The National Emergency Library is available at https://archive.org/details/nationalemergencylibrary.
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