This document provides links to several free academic resources that are available during the COVID-19 pandemic, including databases, publisher websites, and research tools. It lists databases like Kortex and Jstor that are offering expanded open access, as well as individual publisher websites for textbooks and journals. Additional resources highlighted include Sage Research Methods, Sage study skills books, and the Manchester University Phrasebank for dissertation writing help.

1. Dissertation
Question
Time

2. Here are links to the resources that publishers are currently allowing
free access to. Some of these will also be in LJMU Library, but it does
open up the possibility of finding more useful texts.
• Kortex.com have gathered a number of these publishers together in one place:
https://www.kortext.com/
• Another useful database that is opening up more access than we may usually have through the
library is Jstor: https://about.jstor.org/covid19/
• Additionally, you may want to go straight to a publisher if you know what you are looking for. For
example:
Cambridge University Press textbooks: https://www.cambridge.org/core/what-we-
publish/textbooks
Project Muse: https://about.muse.jhu.edu/resources/freeresourcescovid19/

3. Further useful resources for you dissertation,
beyond subject content:
• Sage Research methods is available though the Library and our Canvas site,
but here’s the direct link too: http://methods.sagepub.com/
• Sage have also recently made available (for free) the full range of their
study skills books, which could you plan and write:
https://study.sagepub.com/studentsuccess
• The Manchester University Phrasebank has a vast selection of phrases you
can use in your own writing: http://www.phrasebank.manchester.ac.uk/