Freely Available and Library Resources During COVID-19

Library Digital On Demand 

• Use OneSearch to search for materials. If we don't already have what you need full-text, use the request link. We will borrow it from another Library digitally, or if that isn't possible, we'll see if we can purchase or otherwise get you digital access as soon as possible. There may be a delay of up to 7-12 days for ILL/digital on demand requests. Search for resources with OneSearch and Ask Us for help.

Textbooks and Course Materials

• The Open Library

  • The Internet Archive offers the Open Library, a collection of scanned digital books that supports remote teaching, research activities, independent scholarship, and intellectual stimulation while universities, schools, training centers, and libraries are closed. 
• Public Books Database
  • A directory of free or open access ebooks that have been made available as a result of the COVID-19 situation. Most of these ebooks are available through Project Muse.
• Elsevier
  • Elsevier has made all 256 of their textbooks and all of their All Access ebooks freely available to the CSU through August 31, 2020. Access Elsevier content through the Library's ScienceDirect database.
• Library Reserves
  • The Library is scanning and providing access to Reserves materials digitally as quickly as possible. Check to see if your course materials are available at https://biblio.csusm.edu/course-reserves. We are constantly updating this list but if you don't see your materials available, contact reserve@csusm.edu. 
• Streaming Video
  • While the Library building is closed and our physical media collection is unavailable, use the Library's streaming media platforms to find films and documentaries you can watch from anywhere. Details are at https://biblio.csusm.edu/research_portal/databases/guides/video-and-streaming-media. Don't see the film you need? Contact media@csusm.edu.

Library Resources

• Library Ebooks 

  • The Library provides over 500,000 ebooks that are freely available to all CSUSM faculty, students, and staff. Learn more and search for ebooks through the Library's Ebooks Guide.
• Library Databases
  • The Library's subscription databases provide access to journals, newspapers, magazines, ebooks, streaming video, and much more. Find all of the Library's databases through Databases A-Z.
  • Free Access: All CSUSM databases that have been made available due to COVID-19 are available on the Databases A-Z Trials page.
  • Gale Archival Collections
    • Archives of Sexuality and Gender: Sex and Sexuality, Sixteenth to Twentieth Century and LGBTQ History and Culture Parts I and II
    • American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) Papers 1912-1990
    • Political Extremism and Radicalism: Far-Right and Left Political Groups in the 20th Century
  • ProQuest has released a Coronavirus Research Database designed to aggregate research published on the COVID-19 virus as well as scholarly content on the SARS and MERS outbreaks.