Covid-19 Resources

Resources related to the Covid-19 pandemic 

In the light of the Covid-19 pandemic, we have compiled a list of links to important resources for information.  We cannot emphasize how important it is to follow all instructions as related to your health and safety.  We will continue to update these resources. Please scroll down to see all resources: Government and Medical, & Other academic and teaching resources available online. 

Government & Medical   Other    Academic/Teaching  Archaeology/Heritage 

Governement Resources & Others Related to Covid-19 

Government of India, Covid-19 information and resources : https://www.mygov.in/covid-19/ Health and Family Welfare Department, Government of Tamil Nadu, India  https://stopcoronatn.in/ 

Indian Railways http://www.indianrailways.gov.in/railwayboard/view_section.jsp?lang=0&id=0,1,304,366,519,2308 

Ministry of Tourism, Government of India   Stranded in India portal for foreign tourists: http://strandedinindia.com/ 

National Portal of India  https://www.india.gov.in/news_lists?a5102926 

World Health Organisation https://www.who.int/emergencies/diseases/novel-coronavirus-2019 

Global research on Covid-19, WHO  https://www.who.int/emergencies/diseases/novel-coronavirus-2019/global-research-on-novel-coronavirus-2019-ncov 

The Lancet: Covid-19 resources  https://www.thelancet.com/coronavirus 

Information from Google https://www.google.com/covid19/

Other resources: 

National Portal of India: Culture & Heritage https://www.india.gov.in/india-glance/culture-heritage

National Digital Library of India (NDLI)  https://www.ndl.gov.in/ or https://ndl.iitkgp.ac.in/ 

Department of Archaeology, Government of Tamil Nadu: https://www.tnarch.gov.in/

OUP for teachers and students: https://global.oup.com/about/covid19?cc=in

Google for Education:  https://edu.google.com/intl/en_in/latest-news/covid-19-support-resources/?modal_active=none

National Geographic Resources: https://ngl.cengage.com/assets/html/covid19/

Smithsonian Resources:  https://www.si.edu/newsdesk/releases/smithsonian-offers-distance-learning-resources-during-school-closures

UNESCO: Covid-19 Response: https://en.unesco.org/covid19

ICOMOS Covid 19 Response: https://www.icomos.org/en/77-articles-en-francais/74577-covid-19-stay-connected-with-icomos-and-cultural-heritage-colleagues

World Heritage Cities response: https://www.ovpm.org/covid-19/

Other Resources: Academics 

Circulated by the World Archaeology Congress & sourced (The Society of Antiquaries of London Online Newsletter Salon: Issue 445, 25 March 2020) and updated by us. 

Google Books - the world's most comprehensive index of full-text books scanned by Google.

Google Scholar - broadly searches for scholarly literature across many disciplines and sources.

Internet Archive - a non-profit library of millions of free books, video, websites and a lot more. A very useful resource (along with Google Books and HathiTrust) to find digitised antiquarian books, historical transactions, reports and older periodicals.

Project Guttenberg – a library of over 60,000 free eBooks; mostly great works of literature and older works out of copyright.

HathiTrust Digital Library - a collection of millions of titles digitised from libraries around the world (both full books and catalogue entries).

EThOS (British Library) - searches over 500,000 doctoral theses. Some can be download instantly; others can be or ordered quickly as scans.

Open Access content on JSTOR – more than 6,000 ebooks and over 150 journals are available for free download, without the need to register for an account. There are some 3,849 articles and book chapters indexed under ‘archaeology’.

Academia - a platform for academics to share research papers (requires personal registration to access content). Drafts of book chapters and academic papers are often made available for free download by their authors.

ADS (Archaeology Data Service) – a not-for-profit accredited digital repository for heritage data, based at the University of York. It contains a wide range of material, including data-rich archives, unpublished reports, journals and metadata records.

Internet Archaeology - an Open Access, independent, not-for-profit journal, which explores the potential of digital publication through the inclusion of video, audio, searchable data sets, full-colour images, visualisations, animations and interactive mapping.

Vetusta Monumenta online – a complete high-quality digitisation of the Society’s flagship series of engravings of ancient monuments and artefacts, originally published from 1718-1906. Volume 1 is available as a digital edition with scholarly commentary.  

Open Access content on JSTOR – more than 6,000 ebooks and over 150 journals are available for free download, without the need to register for an account. There are some 3,849 articles and book chapters indexed under ‘archaeology’. Registering for a free personal account on JSTOR will also allow you to access up to six paid-content articles a month for free.