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Trial access to all Palgrave Macmillan journals

By Kieron L Jones, on 10 March 2015

UCL has a month’s trial access to the entire Palgrave Macmillan portfolio of journals. The collection spans across the areas of business, social sciences, and the humanities. Access will be available until 9th April 2015. To begin accessing this content, please click here: Palgrave Macmillan Journals.

Routledge Handbooks Online

By Kieron L Jones, on 24 February 2015

UCL has trial access to Routledge Handbooks Online until 31st March 2015. For off-site access, please use Web WTS or Desktop@UCLAnywhere.

The trial includes access to over 300 handbooks organized into 18 subject collections. Every chapter acts as a standalone piece of scholarship, complete with its own abstract and metadata, providing a useful research tool.

Human Rights Studies Online, Alexander Street Press

By Kieron L Jones, on 3 December 2014

UCL has trial access to the Human Rights Studies Online until 21st December 2014.

Human Rights Studies Online is a research and learning database sharing documentation, analysis, and interpretation of major human rights violations and atrocity crimes worldwide. The collection is growing to include 75,000 pages of text and 150 hours of video that give voice to the countless victims of human rights crimes in the 20th and early 21st centuries.

E-books on demand@UCL

By Kieron L Jones, on 20 November 2014

UCL Library Services is now running three pilot projects involving users in the acquisition of e-book content.

For a trial period, UCL students and staff can read and download 1000s of extra e-books across a wide range of subjects. UCL Library Services will buy those used most often and add them to our existing collection of over 300,000 e-books.

Like existing UCL e-books, these additional e-books can be found using Explore – search All Resources then filter by Online resource and Books. Alternatively you can go directly to one of the three websites where the additional e-books are hosted:

Go to our Ebooks on demand@UCL webpage to find out more.

 

Statista

By Kieron L Jones, on 19 November 2014

UCL has trial access to Statista until 31st Jan. 2015.  Further information can be found on the Electronic Resource Blog post.

BBC Monitoring Library

By Kieron L Jones, on 17 November 2014

UCL has trial access to the BBC Monitoring Library until 13th Dec.  Further information can be found on the Electronic Resource Blog post.

Trial access to The Commonwealth iLibrary

By Kieron L Jones, on 1 October 2014

UCL has trial access to The Commonwealth iLibrary until 30th October 2014. For off-site access to this trial, please use web WTS or Desktop@UCL Anywhere.

“Each year, The Commonwealth publishes around 30 new titles on a range of topics in which it has particular insight and expertise, especially concerning small states, including;

globalisation and multilateral trade issues

export and enterprise […]

For further details, please view:

http://blogs.ucl.ac.uk/library-ejournal/2014/09/26/trial-access-to-the-commonwealth-ilibrary/

TRAC: Terrorism Research & Analysis Consortium

By Kieron L Jones, on 13 June 2014

UCL has trial access to TRAC until 11 July 2014. For off-site access to this trial, please use web WTS or Desktop@UCL Anywhere.

For further details please view the Electronic Resources Blog.

Oxford Constitutions of the World

By Kieron L Jones, on 16 April 2014

UCL has a trial to Oxford Constitutions of the World until 8th May 2014. 

You may view the UCL Library Electronic Resources Blog post here: http://blogs.ucl.ac.uk/library-ejournal/2014/04/10/oxford-constitutions-of-the-world-trial/

Trial to YouGov Reports

By Kieron L Jones, on 23 January 2014

UCL has a trial to YouGov Reports until 23rd April 2014.

For further details, please view the UCL Library Electronic Resources Blog post at: http://blogs.ucl.ac.uk/library-ejournal/2014/01/23/yougov-reports/