Library News – COVID-19

Resources for COVID-19

• ERATOSTHENES COVID-19 WebGIS Platform illustrates the spread of the COVID-19 pandemic, disseminates useful statistical figures to the Governing Departments and Authorities and informs the public.
• COVID-19: Καθεστώς Εξαίρεσης είναι η σειρά video podcasts που δημιούργησε η Νομική Σχολή του Πανεπιστημίου Λευκωσίας, ανταποκρινόμενη στο χρέος κοινωνικής αλληλεγγύης και την επιτακτική ανάγκη έγκαιρης και έγκυρης ενημέρωσης του κοινού (also available via Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/show/5UvDsoXmnr2N4fGDoKdxBq)
• Coronavirus disease (COVID-19) Pandemic (WHO) is the official page of World Health Organization for the latest information about coronavirus.
• JSTOR are now freely available until June 30^th June, 2020
• BMJ Best Practice offers free access to latest advice on Coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19)
• EBSCO DynaMed® medical product have made helpful information about COVID-19 and Coronavirus available to you to use and share.
• EBSCO COVID-19 INFORMATION PORTAL created to support the immediate need for trusted information for researchers, clinicians and all users. It is comprised of news feeds and resources from trusted bodies of authority and the index is in its infancy.
• Elsevier’s Novel Coronavirus Information Center provides access to health and medical research with almost 20,000 relevant articles freely available on ScienceDirect.
• Elsevier ScienceDirect articles for coronavirus
• Elsevier’s Coronavirus (Covid-19) Information Center provides remote teaching resources and support for nursing and healthcare educators.
• Springer Nature made available for free all relevant research they have published and continue to publish.
• JoVE Coronavirus Free Access Resource Center provides relevant research videos to support the efforts of scientists and researchers address the COVID-19 outbreak

 

Guides & Tools to Help you Identify Fake News

1. Guides to learn how to spot fake news:

• 7 ways to avoid misinformation during the coronavirus pandemic – a guide created by Politifact (brief version here)
• SIFT (Mike Caulfield) – the four moves to evaluate source credibility. There is as also a 3hr mini course by M. Caulfield: Check Please! Starter Course
• How to spot fake news – an infographic created by IFLA with 8 simple steps to discover the verifiability of a given news-piece in front of you
• Beyond Fake News – 10 Types of Misleading Information – an infographic created by The European Association for Viewers Interests (EAVI)

2. Tools to help you identify fake news:

• Snopes - a fact-checking resource, that investigates urban legends, hoaxes, and folklore. You can also check The Coronavirus Collection: Fact-Checking COVID-19 for COVID-19 related rumors and misinformation.
• PolitiFact - a fact-checking website that rates the accuracy of claims by elected officials and others.
• Google Reverse Image Search, RevEye, InVid and TinEye are tools that help you find the original context of images or videos you see on social media or elsewhere.
• Quote Investigator - a website that fact-checks the reported origins of widely circulated quotes.
• Coronavirus Rumor Control - a webpage from the U.S. Federal Emergency Management Agency to help the public distinguish between rumors and facts regarding the response to coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic.

 

Publishers/Vendors actions to support remote learning

• Project MUSE
  
  • Makes scholarly content in the humanities and social sciences temporarily available for free on its platform to support teaching, learning, and knowledge discovery for users worldwide.
• Booklist & Book Links
  
  • This American Library Association publication is now freely available until further notice. Booklist provides critical reviews of books and audio-visual materials for all ages.
• Edward Elgar Publishing
  
  • Developed a library of resources for teaching and offers free access to pertinent content.
• ProQuest ebooks
  
  • Provides unlimited access to owned titles from more than 50 publishers through mid-June. This means that all licenses – including single-user and three-user models – will automatically convert to unlimited access during that period.
• EBSCO ebooks
  
  • Upgrades our existing holdings to Unlimited-User access until June 30 for a growing list of publishers.
• EBSCO trainings
  
  • Available to deliver any online session / WebEx on any topic related to EBSCO products and services interested to students, academic staff and librarians- please contact the library if you are interested.
• AIS
  
  • Aims to help members make an easy transition to online teaching and learning with resources that can be used in online classes.
• JoVE Science Education
  
  • offers free access to our users to a video library dedicated to teaching fundamentals through easy-to-understand video demonstrations. [JoVE: The Journal of Visualized Experiments is a peer-reviewed scientific journal that publishes experimental methods in video format].

 

Resources for library staff and information professionals

• Library Juice Academy
  
  • The online professional development platform for librarians and other library staff offering the course Online Instructional Design as a demo.
• ACRL
  
  • Launched a new Pandemic Resources for Academic Libraries LibGuide, featuring updated information, free professional development, open access publications, and other resources to support academic and research library personnel during a pandemic.
• EBSCO webinars series
  
  • Offers librarians around the globe the chance to better support the online research needs of their faculty, students and researchers (begins March 24).
• IFLA - COVID-19 and the Global Library Field
  
  • Created a page – regularly updated – with information about nationwide library closures, as well as a range of ideas drawn from experience of libraries in different settings.