Electronic Resources Blog

UCL now has access to the following resources which can be accessed via the databases list:

Safari Technical Books

Safari Books Online is the premier on-demand digital library providing over 19151 technology, digital media, and business books and videos online to academic and library users.

Science of Synthesis

Science of Synthesis is a reference work for preparative methods in synthetic chemistry. Its product-based classification system enables chemists to easily find a solution to their synthetic problems.

Early European Books:

Collection 2 which contains early printed volumes from the Biblioteca Nazionale Centrale di Firenze  (National Central Library of Florence). The selection of works focuses on four collections of particular historic and bibliographic importance within the library’s holdings from this period:

1.The Nencini Aldine Collection
2.Marginalia.
3.Incunabula
4.Sacred Representations 

Collection 3 is substantially larger than the previous collections, containing 3 million pages in total, from volumes scanned at four different libraries, encompassing works in all major European languages:

Biblioteca Nazionale Centrale di Firenze (National Central Library of Florence, Italy)
Koninklijke Bibliotheek (National Library of the Netherlands)
The Wellcome Library, London
Det Kongelige Bibliotek (Royal Library, Copenhagen)

UCL now has access to SPIE Digital Library, which can be accessed via the databases list.

The SPIE Digital Library is the most extensive resource available on optics and photonics, providing unprecedented access to more than 200,000 technical papers from SPIE Journals and Conference Proceedings from 1990 to the present. More than 17,000 new technical papers are added annually.

UCL students and staff now have access to the  JSTOR Arts and Sciences X collection.

We also have access to Autophagy, a peer-reviewed journal with an international audience including original research, reviews, technical papers and articles on many aspects of autophagy.

The titles contained in this new JSTOR collection, and Autophagy are available using the ejournals list.

UCL Library Services now subscribes to the following resources:

Dissertations & Theses Full Text
FBIS Daily Reports, 1941-1974
OxResearch

Expert Reviews journals collection

Nature journals collection (complete), including all Nature, Nature Reviews and “academic and society” titles

OUP journals collection (complete)

Health Psychology Review
Journal of Heart and Lung Transplantation
Journal of Hospital Medicine
Journal of Midwifery and Women’s Health
Journal of Separation Science
Journal of Visualized Experiments
Seminars in Radiation Oncology
Seminars in Hematology

All of these titles are accessible either via the ejournals list or the databases list

UCL now has access to Statewatch online (the bulletin and searchable database) and SEMDOC; these can both be accessed via the databases list.

Statewatch
Bulletin, news and analysis on the activities of European states in the area of civil liberties. The Statewatch Database is a fully searchable database of all the material from the Statewatch bulletin and Statewatch news online since 1991.

SEMDOC
Information and documentation from Statewatch on EU Justice and Home Affairs policy, decision-making and legislation.

Statewatch is a non-profit-making voluntary group founded in 1991. Comprising lawyers, academics, journalists, researchers and community activists, its European network of contributors is drawn from 18 countries. Statewatch encourages the publication of investigative journalism and critical research in Europe the fields of the state, justice and home affairs, civil liberties, accountability and openness.

Following a successful trial, UCL now has access to BMJ Best Practice.

Best Practice combines the latest research evidence, guidelines and expert opinion in healthcare, taking a patient-focused approach that covers prevention, diagnosis, treatment and prognosis

UCL now has access to the first collection of Early European Books.

Early European Books offers full-colour, high-resolution facsimile scanned images of pre-1701 printed European books.  The first collection includes all of the Danish Royal Library’s Danish and Icelandic imprints produced in the fifteenth and sixteenth centuries, from Breviarium Ottoniense (Odense Breviary) and Guillaume Caoursin’s De obsidione et bello Rhodiano (“On the siege and war of Rhodes”), both printed by in 1482, through to works by the astronomer and alchemist Tycho Brahe (1546–1601).

UCL now has access to Oxford Reference Online, which can be accessed via the databases list.

Oxford Reference Online includes a wide range of cross-searchable dictionary, language reference, and subject reference works published by Oxford University Press, with 1 million entries across 25 subject areas. Below are some examples of titles that are included.

• Dictionary of Accounting
• Dictionary of British Place Names
• Dictionary of Chemistry
• Dictionary of the Social Sciences
• New Oxford Companion to Law
• Oxford Classical Dictionary
• Oxford Companion to Archaeology
• Oxford Companion to Medicine
• Oxford Companion to Military History
• Oxford Dictionary of Art
• Oxford Dictionary of Quotations
• Oxford Encyclopedia of British Literature
• World Maps

UCL now has access to Reaxys.

Reaxys is a web-based search and retrieval system for chemical compounds, bibliographic data and chemical reactions.

Reaxys searches the content of the three CrossFire databases, Beilstein, Gmelin and Patent Chemistry Database, producing a single results set.  Each record provides details excerpted from multiple patent or journal sources.  Reaxys contains a repository of experimentally validated data, including structures, reactions (including multi-step reactions) and physical properties.

Reaxys training

• You can view and download demonstrations, videos and manuals from the Reaxys Training Centre:  http://www.info.reaxys.com/training-center
• You can register to join webinars on particular topics here: http://www.info.reaxys.com/webinars 
• There is a “help” tab on every page in Reaxys

You might need to download certain Java applications to use Reaxys.  If you have a question about this, or need any other support with using Reaxys, contact the subject librarian for Chemistry, Lynne Meehan, on 020 7679 2634 or email l.meehan@ucl.ac.uk. 

UCL now has access to Theatre in Video, including the BBC Shakespeare Series of performances.

Theatre in Video contains more than 250 of the world’s most important plays, together with more than 100 video documentaries, online in streaming video:  more than 500 hours in all.