Doing Research in Times of Covid-19


First of all, we hope that you are healthy of course. However, if you are a student at the University of Hamburg (or any another institution) you might have heard that all libraries are closed for the upcoming weeks. Therefore, you can find a list below with some places where you can still do research for that paper you have to submit.

Name / LinkDescription
Cambridge TextbooksFree access to over 700 books in different disciplines including Language, Linguistics and Education.
Ohio State UniversityMonographs available for download with a wide range of books on Literature and Linguistics.
BerghahnBerghan offers a wide range of free e-books at the moment, including books in Anthropology, Film Studies and History.
Edward Elgar PublishingAlmost 600 books will be available for access until the end of June.
National Emergency LibraryThis library offers a wide range of books from different colleges that you can either borrow or in some cases download.
JSTORUnlicensed collections as well as over 30000 books are available until the end of June.
University of Michigan PressOver 1000 books are free to read online until the end of June.
Bücherhallen HamburgEveryone in Hamburg can have free access to the library’s digital resources for six weeks.
This offer is no longer available.

Do you have any other resources that you are using at the moment to write your papers? Please let us know!


Eine Antwort zu “Doing Research in Times of Covid-19”

  1. Excellent! Also, those of you at the University of Hamburg will be glad to hear that as of today, the SUB Carl-von-Ossietzky is working hard to acquire as many of the main textbooks required across the curricula of the entire University as quickly as possible. Keep checking there to see if what you are looking for is not available! https://www.sub.uni-hamburg.de/startseite.html