The impact of the coronavirus pandemic is posing huge challenges for teachers, researchers and learners. At Cambridge University Press we are committed to supporting you at this difficult time.
The Press plays a global role in education and research and shares its University’s mission to contribute to society through its work. Sharing that research and making our content available can play an important role in tackling shared threats such as this.
Please find below all of the resources and information on the Academic division's initiatives to respond to COVID-19. This page will be updated as more information becomes available.
Free access to book chapters and journal articles
The Press has made a growing collection relevant book chapters and journal articles freely available on Cambridge Core. The Press has also joined the Wellcome Trust and more than 30 leading publishers in committing to making all of our COVID-19 and coronavirus-related publications, and the available data supporting them, immediately accessible in PubMed Central (PMC) and other public repositories.
Articles are drawn from journals including Epidemiology & Infection, Prehospital and Disaster Medicine, Infection Control & Hospital Epidemiology, and from Animal Health Research Reviews, among others. Future articles will be added to the collection once they have been published.
Learn more here and view the full collection here.
APCs waived in Gold Open Access journals
Press-published Gold Open Access (OA) journals will be waiving Article Processing Charges (APCs) for all manuscripts describing COVID-19 or coronavirus-related research through June 2020 to ensure the widest distribution of the latest research possible. APCs are also being waived and coronavirus-related articles are being published with a CC-BY license in a number of other Press journals.
Learn more here and see a full list of Gold OA journals here.
We’ve also adapted our editorial process for articles relating to COVID-19 and are aiming to ensure publication of the author’s accepted manuscript within 24 hours of receipt so that the most up-to-date information is shared as rapidly as possible.
Update on conference attendance
Regrettably, the Academic division of Cambridge University Press has decided to cancel all attendance at conferences and events until the end of August. We feel that this is the right decision to minimise any risks to our team and to the wider community. We will keep the situation under review. We have not taken this decision lightly as we know how important academic conferences are to the community and our publishing partners.
In the meantime, we are extending the online discount to 30 percent to match the discount we would have offered to delegates in attendance at the conference. Our teams are also working with conference organisers where possible to offer other forms of support to these communities.
Simply visit our Conferences page, find the relevant meeting, and add the desired title to your cart. The discount will automatically be applied.
Sharing insights on the response to COVID-19
In response to the COVID-19 outbreak, the Academic division of the Press have opened our Higher Education discussion panel to allow for more effective sharing of information. The forum of more than 425 Lecturers and Instructors globally will be able to share ideas and tips on their institution’s approach to remote-learning, how to ensure student engagement when teaching remotely, and how to support the care of the mental health and well-being of staff and students. You can find the first post in that series here.
The journal Health Economics, Policy and Law has also started a blog series charting the responses to the coronavirus pandemic response by the author's region or country. At the beginning of each month, until the crisis has passed, the authors will be given the opportunity to offer short updates on the continuing response to this worldwide catastrophe and their further reflections on those responses.
You can read the full series of posts here.
