Courseware from Major Publishers

The following publishers are offering free courseware to faculty and students affected by COVID-19 closures.

• Cengage (Links to an external site.):  Cengage is offering faculty and students free access to all of their digital platforms and 14,000 ebooks through Cengage Unlimited (for the remainder of this semester).
• McGraw-Hill: (Links to an external site.) "To ensure continued support to students and instructors impacted by COVID-19, we are making our core digital learning platforms, McGraw-Hill Connect and ALEKS available for free to any instructor who needs it for the remainder of this Spring 2020 term. Any interested instructor should contact your local representative (Links to an external site.)." Includes AccessScience (Links to an external site.). 
• Pearson (Links to an external site.): Not only is Pearson offering informative materials, but they also have a program (Links to an external site.) right now where faculty can transition their whole class from a printed [only] textbook to digital materials like MyLab, Mastering, Revel, or eBooks for free! 
• Wiley Links to an external site. (Links to an external site.): Free access to WileyPLUS or Knewton Alta for the remainder of the semester.
• MacMillan Learning (Links to an external site.):  "FREE access to LaunchPad, Sapling, iClicker, or FlipIt to get you through the remainder of the spring 2020 semester and the winter 2020 quarter if you were not already using one of these digital products. Please search...[their] catalog to see which digital product is available with your current Macmillan Learning textbook or course."
• Internet Archive (Links to an external site.) makes 1.4 million books available for free (National Emergency Library). Read their FAQ here. (Links to an external site.) And here is the link to their library (Links to an external site.).
• EBSCO Faculty Select (Links to an external site.): Need an open educational resources aggregator to assign high quality academic/scholarly book/book chapters as reading material for your students? Until the end of June, EBSCO is offering their Faculty Select database for free. *WARNING*: The DRM-Free  eBooks are not available unless we purchase them. Conduct a basic search for what you are looking for and then limit to "OER Only" resources to get a list of free online books!
  
  

Adapted from Faculty Resources Guide created by College of the Desert Library