30/08/2020

In this uncertain time, it is more important than ever that researchers and students have options to easily access journals, books, online courses and various products and services from the safety of their home. In response to campus and workplace closures worldwide, publishers are either offering temporarily free access to some of their e-resources or expanding their remote access capabilities to ensure that users from subscribing institutions can effectively access their publications remotely.
The Library is keeping track of the resources offered, selecting those possibly relevant to the ICTP scientific community. The below information is regularly updated: resources are listed in alphabetical order of publisher/platform and are divided into temporarily free access, and accessible via ICTP VPN. We encourage you to share this information with colleagues and students who might be interested.

Although the ICTP remains closed, the Marie Curie Library staff is working from home. For further information please do not hesitate to contact us.

Temporarily FREE Access (Free for all)

American Meteorological Society
Normally, all AMS journal articles are freely available one year after publication date. As part of AMS's response to COVID-19, currently all AMS journal articles are freely available, effective 25 March through 30 September 2020.
https://journals.ametsoc.org/
Furthermore, AMS has over 50 free webinars in their webinar directory:
https://www.ametsoc.org/index.cfm/ams/webinar-directory/

Geological Society of London
Thematic collections free online
https://www.lyellcollection.org/content/collections

International Atomic Energy Agency
Hundreds of IAEA online courses for free on nuclear safety and security, radiation protection, sustainable energy development, the use of nuclear applications and more.

https://www.iaea.org/newscenter/news/stuck-in-self-isolation-here-are-hundreds-of-iaea-online-courses-for-free
https://elearning.iaea.org/m2/

Royal Society
All Royal Society journals content freely available until further notice. https://royalsociety.org/journals/#listing

Access with ICTP VPN only

American Chemical Society [via ICTP VPN only]
ACS have enabled support for device pairing, allowing a laptop, tablet, or smartphone to pair with an institutional subscription for use while off-campus. Device pairing must be done while you are connected via VPN. Users are asked to register at ACS, an easy and fast process, they get a code to be used to pair their mobile device. Paired devices can access subscribed content regardless of physical location for 4 months. https://pubs.acs.org/page/remoteaccess

American Mathematical Society [via ICTP VPN only]
Mobile Pairing option.
As a service during the COVID-19 crisis, the American Mathematical Society gives the option to maintain access to any of their online products to which ICTP subscribes, including MathSciNet. As you may know, AMS remote access system allows end users to pair their computers while on a campus network, letting them take their access to AMS resources with them wherever they go. As all are now away from campus, AMS is providing users with a special remote access link unique to ICTP.
To get the link please write to library@ictp.it.
We will send you instructions and you will be able to initiate 90 days of access on your mobile devices.

American Physical Society (APS) [via ICTP VPN only]
APS offers various ways to access their content off-campus, check on https://journals.aps.org/remote-access

Optical Society of America [via ICTP VPN only]
Google CASA: Campus Activated Subscriber Access (CASA) is a Google Scholar initiative to improve access to research off-campus. To adopt it:

1. Connect via ICTP VPN
2. use Google Scholar to search an article
3. Google will remember your institutional affiliation on your device for 30 days without VPN, so you can continue to access your institution’s licensed content outside the network

Springer Nature [via ICTP VPN only]
Springer enabled the Persisted access option in response to the COVID-19 outbreak.

• via the ICTP VPN access to a Springer article, for example: https://doi.org/10.1007/s00382-018-4587-3
• This allows an institutional identifier to be stored in your browser
• The next time you will access a Springer Nature content without VPN from the same device and browser your access will be automatically authenticated. Recognition will last 90 days.

More on: https://www.springernature.com/gp/librarians/tools-services/implement/remote-access

Taylor & Francis - Advances in physics [via ICTP VPN only]
Institutional access using an individual login enables library users to get remote access to their institution’s subscriptions by signing into their individual Taylor & Francis Online account.

• via the ICTP VPN log in to your personal Taylor & Francis Online account. New users can register for a free account https://www.tandfonline.com/action/registration
• Your individual account will be automatically associated with the ICTP account and you will be able to access remotely for 90 days on any device

Web of Science [via ICTP VPN only]
One time registration on the platform via VPN will allow you to access remotely from any device.

Follow these steps:

1. Via ICTP VPN go to https://webofknowledge.com/
2. At the top of the page click on Sign In
3. Select Register to create a new account

The account will let you Sign in directly wherever you are for 6 months. Registration to the Web of Science will also allow you to:

• Automatic sign in
• Access saved searches and search history
• Create alerts
• Add references to your EndNote Library
• Update your personal information

Wiley Online Library [via ICTP VPN only]
You can extend your access to Wiley licenced content including AGU journals outside the ICTP network:

• via the ICTP VPN login to your personal Wiley Online account. New users can register for a free account https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/action/registration your Wiley profile will automatically affiliate with the ICTP, and you will be able to access licensed content remotely by logging in to Wiley Online Library for 60 days.
• via Google CASA: Campus Activated Subscriber Access (CASA) is a Google Scholar initiative to improve access to research off-campus. To adopt it:
• Connect via ICTP VPN
• use Google Scholar to search an article
• Google will remember your institutional affiliation on your device for 60 days without VPN, so you can continue to access your institution’s licensed content outside the network.