WiLS has received this information from Overdrive:
In response to the COVID-19 Crisis OverDrive has secured agreements from the list of publishers posted below to make any of their titles in your collection that were purchased prior to March 1, 2020 “always available”. To be clear, any titles in your collect from the listed publishers included here, those titles will be available for Simultaneous Use until April 30th, with the potential for that date to be extended. We hope this makes your existing resources go further at no additional cost with OverDrive saluting the publishers who jumped in to support our partners at this critical time.
Our records show that your library has titles from one or more of this group of publishers:
- Oxford University Press
- Guilford Publications
- Rowman & Littlefield
- ABC-CLIO
- Princeton University Press
- Sourcebooks (title specific, details pending)
- Jacana Media Pty Ltd
- Taylor & Francis (title specific, details pending)
- Springer Nature
- TrueLake Holdings Limited
- ZG Audio (Beijing)
- Juvenile & Children’s Publishing House
- Tianjin Booky
- China Publishing Group Digital Media
- Huawen Tianxia
- People’s Medical Publishing House
- Lingzi Media
- Zengogo Children Book Publisher
We expect more publishers to support this effort and will post further details when available. These are unprecedented times and it is a privileged to be a partner with institutions that can help so many people during this crisis. Best wishes to you and those that are closest to you.