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Cinema Image Gallery

By Cecile Dubuis, on 9 March 2009

We have a trial of Cinema Image Gallery during March and April 2009.

Cinema Image Gallery presents the history of film-making through a wide range of high-quality images of films in production.  It includes more than 152,000 superior-quality images, from the latter part of the 19th century to the beginning of the 21st century.   It also offers an extensive TV stills archive featuring classic and modern television.

To help subject librarians assess the importance of this resource, please send feedback to ejournals@ucl.ac.uk, or post a comment, below.

British Periodicals Online

By Cecile Dubuis, on 16 February 2009

The Library now has access to British Periodicals Online, which provides access to the searchable full text of hundreds of periodicals from the late seventeenth century to the early twentieth, comprising millions of high-resolution facsimile page images.

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Among the periodicals included are titles founded, edited or regularly contributed to by a host of important figures – Aubrey Beardsley, Mary Elizabeth Braddon, Daniel Defoe, Charles Dickens, George Eliot, Henry Fielding, Ford Madox Ford, Jerome K. Jerome, Samuel Johnson,and W. M. Rossetti to name but a few.

A wide variety of different types of periodical are represented, including art periodicals, penny weeklies and illustrated magazines. The collection forms an unrivalled record of more than two centuries of British history and culture.

All the titles in British Periodicals appear individually in UCL’s ejournals list.

Francis

By Cecile Dubuis, on 17 December 2008

UCL currently has access to Francis, an index of journal articles in the Humanities and Social Sciences, via OCLC. We have arranged trials of two alternative interfaces: use the links below to access them.

Please send feedback on the interfaces to ejournals@ucl.ac.uk, or post a comment, below.

Periodicals Archive Online

By Cecile Dubuis, on 5 November 2008

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UCL now has access to 80 titles in Arts and Humanities and Social Sciences that are part of the ProQuest Periodicals Archive Online. All new titles and additional coverage have been added to the ejournals list.  More information and titles covered.

Duke University Press journals

By Cecile Dubuis, on 4 November 2008

UCL has a trial of the Duke University Press ejournals collection, covering titles in the humanities and social sciences, until February 2009.  This trial provides access to the current content of the titles below, to which we do not currently subscribe.  (Some of the earlier content of these titles is already available:  this is shown on the ejournals list.)

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Cambridge University Press ebooks

By Cecile Dubuis, on 7 October 2008

The MyiLibrary platform hosts ebooks from CUP.This is a reminder about the current ebooks project involving UCL and Cambridge University Press.  This project gives UCL users access to 750 ebooks in a variety of subjects, including law, anthropology, medicine, psychology and life sciences.  These ebooks are hosted on the MyiLibrary platform, where you can browse and search the titles that are part of the project. In addition, all the titles appear on the Library catalogue.

New ejournals list – firewall settings

By Cecile Dubuis, on 17 September 2008

Some users are experiencing problems related to local firewall settings when accessing the new ejournals list off-site.  The errors vary depending on the specific firewall and browser, but can generally be characterised as “access denied” messages

The solution is to make sure that the addresses metalib-a.lib.ucl.ac.uk:9003 and metalib-a.lib.ucl.ac.uk:8331 are explicitly permitted for traffic through your (or your organisation’s) firewall.  If the problem is to do with your firewall at home, you’ll need to consult the documentation for whichever package you use (F-Secure, Norton, ZoneAlarm etc.)  The section will probably be called “Firewall”.  There should be something like a set of “Rules” or a “Trusted Zone” that allows you to specify sites and port numbers that should be allowed through the firewall.

Aries and other Social & Historical Sciences ejournals

By Cecile Dubuis, on 8 September 2008

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Aries: Journal for the Study of Western Esotericism Vol. 1, 2001-

Also UCL students and staff now have access to  the following Social & Historical Sciences ejournals:

Social & Historical Sciences backfiles

By Cecile Dubuis, on 8 September 2008

UCL Library Services has bought the following Sage backfiles (older journal content):

Body and Society Vol. 1, 1995-
East European Politics and Societies Vol. 1, 1986-
European Journal of International Relations Vol. 1, 1995-
Journal of Material Culture Vol. 1, 1996-
Journal of Theoretical Politics Vol. 1, 1989-
Progress in Human Geography Vol. 1, 1977-
Public Understanding of Science Vol. 1, 1992-
Sociology Vol. 1, 1967-
Theory, Culture and Society Vol. 1, 1982-

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UCL has also purchased some Biomedical Sciences Backfiles (relevant for Anthropology).

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Sociel Theory Database Trial

By Cecile Dubuis, on 15 July 2008

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 We have a trial for Social Theory, available until 11 August. 
Social Theory:  http://soth.alexanderstreet.com

Feedback most welcome.

Social Theory offers an extensive selection of documents that explore the complexities and interpret the nature of social behavior and organization. Particular care has been taken to index this material so that it can be searched more thoroughly than ever before. The current release features more than 76,000 pages of content by such major theorists as Jean Baudrillard, Simone de Beauvoir, Ulrich Beck, Howard Becker, Nancy Chodorow, Émile Durkheim, Michel Foucault, Erving Goffman, Robert Merton, and Talcott

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