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Supplementum Epigraphicum Graecum

By Jes E Cooban, on 22 September 2012

UCL has a trial of Supplementum Epigraphicum Graecum until 12 October 2012.

The Supplementum Epigraphicum Graecum systematically collects newly published Greek inscriptions as well as publications on previously known documents. It presents complete Greek texts of all new inscriptions with a critical apparatus; it summarizes new readings, interpretations, and studies of known inscriptions, and occasionally presents the Greek text of these documents.

The online edition includes all SEG volumes, and will incorporate all future volumes in the series. Supplementum Epigraphicum Graecum Online is automatically updated upon publication of the annual volume.

Please send feedback on this resource to ejournals@ucl.ac.uk

Cambridge Histories Online

By Jes E Cooban, on 5 September 2012

 

A number of new eresources have recently been purchased with one-off funding including Cambridge Histories Online

Book Citation Index

By Jes E Cooban, on 9 May 2012

UCL has a trial of the Book Citation Index – Science and Book Citation Index – Social Science & Humanitiesin 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

Please send feedback on this resource to ejournals@ucl.ac.uk

The London Review of Books

By Jes E Cooban, on 9 May 2012

The London review of books is now available from 1979 volume: 1 issue: 1

Trends in Classics

By Jes E Cooban, on 17 February 2012

 

We now have acces to the e-journal Trends in Classics

Dissertations and Theses (ProQuest)

By Jes E Cooban, on 15 February 2012

We now have access to Dissertations and Theses (ProQuest). This database includes millions of searchable citations to dissertation and theses from around the world from 1861 to the present day together with over a million full text dissertations that are available for download in PDF. The database offers full text for most of the dissertations added since 1997 and strong retrospective full text coverage for older graduate works.

Bibliography of the Revue d’Histoire Ecclésiastique

By Jes E Cooban, on 25 January 2012

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.

Please send feedback on this resource to ejournals@ucl.ac.uk

Past masters

By Jes E Cooban, on 18 January 2012

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

Patrologia Latina

By Jes E Cooban, on 23 November 2011

The Patrologia Latina Database is an electronic version of the first edition of Jacques-Paul Migne’s Patrologia Latina, published between 1844 and 1855, and the four volumes of indexes published between 1862 and 1865.

Translated Texts for Historians

By Jes E Cooban, on 9 November 2011

UCL has a trial of Translated Texts for Historians until 7 December 2011.

This book series makes available historical sources from 300-800 AD translated into English, in many cases for the first time.

Please send feedback on this resource to ejournals@ucl.ac.uk