Trial access to Policy Commons Complete Suite

By Sarah Gilmore, on 4 February 2025

UCL has trial access to Policy Commons Complete until 31st March 2025.

Policy Commons is a discovery, access and preservation service for informally published policy content from IGOs, NGOs and think tanks. The full suite of modules consists of:

• Oceania : The complete policy picture for Oceania. The only comprehensive grey literature database in the region, with the benefit of preservation
• Public Health and Social Care : Bringing together research, pilot projects, real-world evaluations, newsletters, and collaborative projects from frontline health providers, hospital systems, foundations, patient groups, practitioner communities, governments, think tanks, and other organizations produce
• North American City Reports : Over 1.5 million pages of in-depth surveys, reports, and research from more than six hundred North American cities and urban agencies
• World Cities and Local Governments
• Global Think Tanks : The largest database for public policy, covering reports, working papers, policy briefs, data sources, and media drawn from a directory of IGOs, NGOs, and research centers. Please note that UCL users already have subscribed access to this module
• World Governments : Millions of essential research documents from more than 150 governments around the world, enriched and integrated on a single platform
• World Cities : Cities are on the front lines of today’s most pressing challenges and their publications document the ground truth

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Trial access to the El Comercio Digital Archive (East View)

By Sarah Gilmore, on 4 February 2025

UCL has trial access to the El Comercio Digital Archive until 2nd March 2025.

El Comercio Digital Archive was founded in 1839 and is the longest-running newspaper in Peru and one of the oldest Spanish-language newspapers in the world. It is considered Peru’s newspaper of record and is one of the most influential newspapers in South America—with a circulation of over 100,000.

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UCL now has access to JFLIX

By Sarah Gilmore, on 29 January 2025

UCL users now have access to JFLIX video streaming platform.

JFLIX is a platform dedicated to award winning films on various topics dealing with Judaism and Israel. From Jewish history through biographies of leaders, along with films about Israeli society and culture. These films discuss questions such as Jewish identity and coping courageously with moral dilemmas.

Films can be browsed within three themes :

• Science & Technology
• Society
• Art & History

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Trial access to Political Extremism and Radicalism (Gale)

By Sarah Gilmore, on 14 January 2025

UCL has trial access to Political Extremism and Radicalism via Gale until 13th February 2025.

Political Extremism and Radicalism consists of three collections:

• Political Extremism and Radicalism: Far-Right and Left Political Groups in the U.S., Europe, and Australia in the Twentieth Century
• Political Extremism and Radicalism: Far-Right Groups in America
• Political Extremism and Radicalism: Global Communist and Socialist Movements

Political Extremism and Radicalism provides insight on unorthodox (by contemporary standards), fringe groups from both the right and left of the political spectrum through rare, hard to access primary sources.  Content supports research on philosophical, social, political and economic ideologies as well as on contemporary issues surrounding gender, sexuality, race, religion, civil rights, universal suffrage, and more

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UCL now has access to the Social History Archive : Records, Newspapers and the 1921 Census

By Sarah Gilmore, on 10 January 2025

UCL users now have access to Social History Archive : Records, Newspapers and the 1921 Census. Access is restricted to current UCL students and staff only.

This archive features a collection of British and Irish primary source material:

• Records: consisting of 3.5 billion transcribed records, 375 million digitised scans of original records in over 2,800 separate collections, these records cover a broad spectrum of the themes and topics of British history and its colonial expansion into Ireland, India and the wider world.
• Newspapers: the largest collection of historical British & Irish newspapers online and the official source for the British Library’s newspaper holdings. This collection features over 1,850 titles and over 47 million pages dating from 1700 to the 2000s. Access included the Bookseller archive.
• Census: the 1921 Census of England & Wales includes 38 million records covering every person in England and Wales on 19 June 1921. It’s searchable by over 35 fields including keyword, name, address and employer.

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Trial access to The Scotsman, 1817-2002 (ProQuest Historical Newspapers)

By Sarah Gilmore, on 8 January 2025

UCL has trial access to The Scotsman, 1817-2002 via ProQuest Historical Newspapers until 5th February 2025.

The Scotsman was established as a liberal weekly to challenge the establishment’s dominance of Edinburgh’s press. With a commitment to “impartiality, firmness, and independence,” the newspaper quickly rose to prominence for its bold reporting and objective stance. Transitioning to a daily in 1855, The Scotsman has since covered significant historical moments, from the Highland Clearances and the Industrial Revolution to world wars and the RMS Lancastria disaster.

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UCL now has access to Aging in the Modern World and World Events and the Media (Alexander Street)

By Sarah Gilmore, on 2 January 2025

UCL users now have access to Aging in the Modern World and World Events and the Media from Alexander Street

• Aging in the Modern World explores global aging complexities, diverse cultural perspectives, personal narratives, and scholarly insights from 1900 to 2020. This collection features coverage of government approaches, societal attitudes, and key themes, to provide understanding and address the challenges and opportunities associated with an aging population.
• World Events and the Media explores various practices in journalism: from investigative journalism to crisis and war reporting, to the impact of technological advancements on the media. This multimedia resource covers approaches to journalism that draw upon first-hand accounts, memoirs, historical accounts, videos and archival records.

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UCL now has access to ZEDHIA

By Sarah Gilmore, on 5 December 2024

UCL users now have access to ZEDHIA

ZEDHIA features digitalized full text about the history of Central Europe’s business, economy and genealogy. The 28,543 volumes and 1.3 million pages of the publications comprised in ZEDHIA cover the history of Austrian business from 1789 until 2003.

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UCL now has access to LatinNews Daily

By Sarah Gilmore, on 5 December 2024

UCL users now have access to LatinNews Daily, this is in addition to our existing access to LatinNews content including Latin American Weekly Report

LatinNews Daily provides expert analysis of the main political and economic developments within Latin America and the Caribbean over the past 24 hours. Each LatinNews Daily provides:

• A brief outline of main developments
• An assessment of the significance of each development
• Additional ‘key points’, for those who require more detailed analysis
• A ‘Looking Ahead’ final paragraph for each development that highlights where these developments might be leading

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UCL now has access to Early American Newspapers: Early Colonial to Articles of Confederation Era, 1690-1789 (Readex)

By Sarah Gilmore, on 28 November 2024

UCL now has access to Early American Newspapers: Early Colonial to Articles of Confederation Era, 1690-1789 (Readex)

The newspapers in Early Colonial to Articles of Confederation Era, 1690-1789 can be searched by choosing “Select All” in the search interface, individual newspapers can also be found in “Browse Publications”.

Early American Newspapers: Early Colonial to Articles of Confederation Era, 1690-1789 features titles from every region of the U.S. to provide a record of people, issues and events from the time period such as: Salem witchcraft, Slavery institutionalized, First Great Awakening, Pontiac’s Rebellion, Royal Proclamation of 1763, Stamp Act Crisis, Boston Massacre, Boston Tea Party, First Continental Congress, Battle of Lexington and Concord, Declaration of Independence, Rise of Republicanism, Treaty of Paris, Shays’ Rebellion, U.S. Constitutional Convention, Rise of Republican Motherhood.

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