UCL has trial access to Refugees, Relief and Resettlement: Forced Migration and World War II until 5th January 2024.

Refugees, Relief and Resettlement: Forced Migration and World War II chronicles the plight of refugees and displaced persons across Europe, North Africa, and Asia from 1935 to 1950, bringing together over 590,000 pages of pamphlets, ephemera, government documents, relief organization publications, and refugee reports that recount the causes, effects and responses to refugee crises before, during and shortly after World War II.

Documentation offers a first-hand record of the response of governments to various crises and shifts in policy; a chronicling of the aid work undertaken by NGOs and charities seeking to provide relief and aid in resettlement; and a recognition through individual narratives of the daily reality of the refugee experience. This archive enables researchers to examine not only the plight of those forced to resettle inside and outside their national borders, but also the many types of refugee situations that arose, from voluntary evacuations and the internment of individuals in displaced person (DP) camps to whole population transfers and the return of forced laborers.

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UCL has trial access to Contemporary Anthropology: Archaeological Fieldwork and Methods until 28th December 2023.

Contemporary Anthropology: Archaeological Fieldwork and Methods brings together archival and textual material relating to archaeological excavations, methods, and practices from the late 20th century to the present day. It provides insights into the lives, cultures, and societies of ancient and not-so-distant civilizations through the analysis of material remains and artifacts from the past.

The Cusichaca Trust Archive, sourced from the Senate House Library, is featured in this collection. Led by archaeologist Ann Kendall, the Trust did numerous excavations in the South-Central Andes from 1980s-2010s. The archaeology, archaeobotany and ethnohistorical work of the Trust focused on human occupation of the area from the late first millennium BC, through Inca expansion and into the Spanish Colonial period.

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UCL has trial access to Sovetskii Ekran Digital Archive until 20th December 2023.

Sovetskii Ekran Digital Archive (Soviet Screen digital archive) is a collection of the most prominent film magazine in Soviet history, published from 1925 to 1998. With a peak circulation of two million copies, it was the world’s largest film publication of its time. Available in a bi-monthly format, the magazine was very popular among film enthusiasts, disappearing from kiosks almost immediately upon arrival. Covering both domestic and foreign films, film history, and reviews, Sovetskii Ekran served as a source of insider insights, production secrets, and cultural impacts.

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UCL has trial access to Accessible Archives: Colonial Newspapers Collection until 23rd November 2023.

This collection is in three parts:

• South Carolina Newspapers, 1732-1780 , comprising of: The Charlestown Gazette; The South Carolina Gazette; The Gazette of the State of South Carolina; The South Carolina Gazette and Country Journal; Supplement to South Carolina Gazette and Country Journal; The South Carolina and American General Gazette; and Supplement to South Carolina and American General Gazette

• The Pennsylvania Gazette, 1728-1815

• The Virginia Gazette, 1736-1780

This collection is ideal for researching how daily issues, events, and individuals affected the lives of American colonists during a crucial period in American history with firsthand stories and news reports on life in Colonial and Early Republic America.

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UCL has trial access to UKPressOnline until 07^th Sep 2023.

UKPressOnline is the gateway to more than two million pages of the 19th-21st Centuries’ newspapers, from 1835 to today, all as published on the day they were published and all searchable by name, word, phrase and date.

Titles included are:

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UCL has trial access to JET Magazine Archive and Atla – Perspectives on Ancient Civilizations, 1200-1922 from EBSCO until 30th June 2023.

JET Magazine Archive covers the civil rights movement, politics, education, and other social topics with an African American focus. It includes over 3,000 issues providing a broad view of news, culture, and entertainment from its first issue in 1951 through 2014.

Atla – Perspectives on Ancient Civilizations, 1200-1922 features nearly 900 monographs related to ancient civilizations and cultures from to the Biblical and Classical periods, including Assyrian, Babylonian, Sumerian, Egyptian, Hittite, Greek, and others. The collection covers cultures that existed alongside the Hebrew people who had a strong influence on the formation of the Hebrew scriptures. It includes significant holdings concerning the Akkadian, Syriac, Sumerian, and Egyptian languages and subject areas such as literature, mythology, inscriptions, religion, philosophy, and law.

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UCL has trial access to LGBTQ+ Source from EBSCO until 9th July 2023.

LGBTQ+ Source provides full-text coverage for the most important and historically significant literature on lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender issues. In addition, this resource provides indexing and abstracts for hundreds of journals, books, newspapers and reference works

Content Includes:
• Over 200 full-text journals
• 200 five-minute videos providing first-person accounts from those in the lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender and queer community
• Over 300 indexed and abstracted journals
• Over 140 peer-reviewed indexed and abstracted journals
• Over 400 indexed and abstracted books and reference works

Topics Covered:
• Feminist theory
• Gay and lesbian spirituality
• Gender stereotypes
• LGBTQ+ history
• LGBTQ+ law
• Same-sex marriage
• Transgender issues

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UCL has trial access to Public Health Archives: Public Health in Modern America, 1890-1970, Gale Primary Sources, until 1st June 2023.

Public Health Archives: Public Health in Modern America, 1890-1970 documents the rise of the twentieth-century public health system in the United States through correspondence, reports, pamphlets, ephemera, and more. Through primary sources, this archive documents the evolution and impact of public health legislation, policies, and campaigns at the local, national, and federal levels, highlighting the roles played by key organizations and individuals to advance public health practices and outcomes.

The archive also tells a tale of twentieth-century urbanization and industrialization, the rise of public advocacy and impact of legislation at various levels, the transformation of domestic life, the role of state control in the care of its populations, the challenges presented by differences of and social attitudes respecting race, ethnicity, gender, citizenship, age, ability, and class, and finally the means, methods, and mechanisms for organizing and financing public health policy initiatives.

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UCL has trial access to Deutsch-jüdische Quellen aus Palästina/Israel, Encyclopedia of Jewish-Christian Relations Online, Handbuch des Antisemitismus Online, Klemperer Online and Singerman Bibliography of Antisemitic Texts in English until 29th April 2023.

These resources can be cross searched using the Jewish Studies Portal: Jüdische Studien Portal

• Deutsch-jüdische Quellen aus Palästina/Israel: contains writings of all genres of German-Jewish immigrants that were published between 1890-2000 in Palestine and Israel. It contains approximately 1,500 entries, of which ca. 250 are linked to their full texts.
• Encyclopedia of Jewish-Christian Relations Online: covers a wide range of topics, including, but not limited to theological concepts (e.g., Christology, Excommunication) spiritual and religious practices (e.g., Prayer, Blessing), ritual (Circumcision, Baptism, Dietary Laws), geographic topics (Ashkenaz, Middle East), denominational concepts (Karaites, Reform Judaism) and political and historical issues (Zionism, Antisemitism).
• Handbuch des Antisemitismus Online: contains all of the 2,200 entries of the print version of the Handbuch des Antisemitismus (8 volumes, 2008–2015).  It includes 650 biographies from late antiquity up to the present day; entries on Judaeophobia in 85 countries and regions; terms, theories and ideologies of antisemitism; events, legislative and administrative actions of discrimination and controversies; organizations, publications as well as more than 700 entries that survey cultural antisemitism in film, theater, literature, and the visual arts.
• Klemperer Online: the database makes available the complete and unabridged diaries of Victor Klemperer, which are among the most important sources of 20th-century German history. The texts feature an extensive commentary and contain over a third more material than the print edition.
• Singerman Bibliography of Antisemitic Texts in English: this bibliographic database identifies a significant variety of books, pamphlets, ephemera, and selected articles, either written in English or translated into English, from the beginning of the 19th century extending to 2022 imprints. The sources come from different countries around the world and the texts reflect a wide diversity of religious, extremist, and nationalist ideologies

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UCL has trial access to Building Types Online until 29th April 2023.

Building Types Online is a resource for the study and practice of architectural design. It is based on Birkhäuser’s high international standing in professional architecture books, on the knowledge of the authors and editors who are leading experts in their fields, as well as on the technical quality of the illustrations. The database offers flexible and detailed search and browse access to the contents of the Birkhäuser program on building types. All content was written and selected by internationally renowned authors in architectural design.

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