Electronic Resources Blog

UCL has a trial of SpringerImages until 9 July 2012.

SpringerImages is a growing collection of images that spans the scientific, technical and medical fields, including high-quality clinical images from images.MD. The continually updated collection – currently over 3.3 million images – contains photos, graphs, histograms, figures and tables. You can search by caption, keywords, context and more. Users can create personalized image “sets,” and can export images for almost all noncommercial purposes, including integration into presentations and PDF documents.

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UCL has a trial of the Book Citation Index – Science and Book Citation Index – Social Science & Humanities in Web of Science until 6 August.  These two options now appear in the databases list in the main Web of Science search screen.  Both indexes start in 2005.

Recorded training on the Book Citation Index is available to view here.  You can also download the following training materials:

Book Citation Indexes Factsheet
Information on how books are selected for inclusion
Book list

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UCL has a trial of the Future Medicine Oncology journals collection until 29 May 2012.  This collection includes:

Future Oncology
Colorectal Cancer
Biomarkers in Medicine
Pain Management

The collection will also include Breast Cancer Management  and Lung Cancer Management (to be launched in May) and CNS Oncology (to be launched in August.)

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UCL currently has a trial of Business Source Complete.

This database includes around 3,700 full-text journals and magazines.  List of available titles.

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UCL has a trial of the Judaic Scholar Digital Reference Library until August 15, 2012.

The Judaic Scholar Digital Reference Library contains full-text, searchable books.

Book topics include Biography/Memoirs, General Jewish-Interest Literature, Hebrew, History, Holocaust, Israel, Jewish Religious Thought, Modern political thought, Torah/Bible and Reference material such as The Jewish Encyclopedia and the Universal Jewish Encyclopedia

There are also collections including Sepharad: The Essential Library, The War against Israel, Rabbinic Bookshelf and the Judaic Scholar Digital Reference Library.

If you would like access to this trial, please contact ejournals@ucl.ac.uk

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UCL has a trial of the Bibliography of the Revue d’Histoire Ecclésiastique until 29 February 2012.

This database covers literature dealing with various aspects of Church history (institutions, orders and congregations, laity, hagiography, etc). However it is not limited to the history of the Church in a strict sense: themes touching on the history of the Church are also covered (political, social and economic history, archeology, history of art, music, architecture, relationships to other religions, heretical movements etc.) It contains 286,000 references (and 92,0000 book reviews) from 1974 to 2011, and is regularly updated.

YouTube tutorials are available on specific topics or as general introduction to the bibliography.

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UCL has another trial of the Past Masters full collection until 29 February 2012.

• On-site access is available here.
• Off-site access is available via the link to Past Masters in the databases list.

Past Masters includes definitive editions of the complete works of seminal figures in the history of the humanities, including published and unpublished works, articles and essays, reviews and correspondence. It covers philosophy, political thought, religious studies, sociology, the history of science, economics and classics. Original language texts are available in Latin, French, German, Danish and Dutch, aside from English and English translation.

Please send feedback on this resource, including your thoughts on which authors are of most interest,  to ejournals@ucl.ac.uk

UCL currently has a trial of ProQuest Jewish Historical Newspapers.

This product includes:

The American Hebrew & Jewish Messenger (1857-1922)
The Jewish Advocate (1905-1990)
The Jewish Exponent (1887-1990)

Scroll down UCL’s list of ProQuest databases to find these three titles.  You can search them together or separately.

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