A number of organisations have made available materials to facilitate research during the Covid-19 pandemic. We have tried to compile some of these in the list below. Please get in touch through the Contact Us form, if you would like any links to be added, or to report a broken link.
- Our list of useful external sites contains a number of online databases, blogs, and palaeography courses
- Access to Research (Open Access directory in partnership with publishers)
- Directory of Open Access Journals
- Google Books
- HathiTrust
- Internet Archive
- The Institute for Historical Research has put together a comprehensive list of open and free access materials for research
- JStor and ArtStor. JStor offers individuals access to read 100 articles every 30 days
- The Literary Encyclopedia is offering free institutional access until the end of June
- The National Theatre are livestreaming many of its past productions
- ProjectMuse is hosting a range of free materials during the crisis
- Of Pilcrows, curated by Claire Bourne, has an annotated list of online resources that theatre and book historians may find of interest
- Online resources for sixteenth and seventeenth-century French history – museums, châteaux and institutions, compiled by Sara Barker
- Open Library of the Humanities
- Project Gutenberg
- The Royal Musical Association has collated a list of research resources and financial, technical and wellbeing support
- Acclaimed RSC Shakespeare Productions can be watched online.
- Some university presses are offering access to their books — see PublicBo
- Top Tips for Research Online, by Kat Hill
- The Warburg Institute has put together a list of various galleries, museums, and libraries who have developed online exhibitions and tours
Please note: the Society for Renaissance Studies cannot take responsibility for the content of external sites.