While many aspects of the pandemic situation are discomforting, there is one aspect that scholars and PhD students should appraciate and take advantage of. Namely, many publishers and libraries have made their resources available at no cost. Access to those resources is, in some cases, limited in time (e.g. till May 25th or May 31st), so it sounds like a very good idea to browse through the resources as soon as possible.

This service, for example, has an amazing number of free publications, very easy to download:

http://library.oapen.org/discover?query=academic+writing&submit=&rpp=10

The link above shows search results for academic writing, including Publishing Research in English as an Additional Language: Practices, Pathways and Potentials.

Other resources include:

– https://about.jstor.org/oa-and-free

– https://www.doabooks.org/

– https://link.springer.com/search?package=openaccess&query=

– https://www.publicbooks.org/public-books-database/

This University of Cambridge page seems to offer the most comprehensive list of resources opened for COVID-19:

http://libguides.cam.ac.uk/az.php?t=26526