Trial access to Nano (Nature)

By , on 22 January 2019

UCL has trial access to Nano from Nature until 11th June 2019.

Nano from Nature provides highly indexed and structured information related to nanomaterials & devices. Enabling users to gain quick insight with the machine-learned index of nanotechnology articles by AAAS, ACS, Elsevier, RSC, Springer Nature, Wiley and more.

Nano provides access to easily searchable nanoscience data, synthesis methods and literature and combines the key features of a database and an Abstracting & Indexing tool with intelligent functionality.

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Trial access to Encyclopedia of Jewish History and Culture Online and Enzyklopädie jüdischer Geschichte und Kultur

By , on 18 January 2019

UCL has trial access to the Encyclopedia of Jewish History and Culture Online (English version) and Enzyklopädie jüdischer Geschichte und Kultur (German version) until 15th February 2019.

Encyclopedia of Jewish History and Culture Online and Enzyklopädie jüdischer Geschichte und Kultur cover Jewish history from 1750 until the 1950s in areas from Europe to America to the Middle East, North Africa and other non-European Jewish settlement areas .

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All collections of the Associated Press Collection (Gale) now included in the UCL trial

By , on 17 January 2019

All collections have now been opened in the UCL trial to the Associated Press Collection (Gale). The trial is active until 5th February 2019.

The collections featured are:

• European Bureaus Collection
• The Middle East Bureaus Collection
• News Features & Internal Communications
• U.S. City Bureaus Collection
• Washington, D.C. Bureau Collection, Part I
• Washington D.C. Bureau Collection, Part II

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New url to access the Gale Digital Scholar Lab trial

By , on 11 January 2019

The link for the Gale Digital Scholar Lab trial has changed. We also now have a new password. Please now use this link, and find the password on the e-resource password page. The trial is active until 16th January 2019.

Trial access to the Associated Press Collections Online (Gale)

By , on 8 January 2019

UCL has trial access to the Associated Press Collections Online (Gale) until 5th February 2019.

Associated Press Collections Online  brings to life historical events from around the globe with news coverage, imagery, and behind-the-scenes context.

The six-part collection of primarily twentieth-century materials consists of:

• Actual wire copy including never-before published materials, often complete with editor and/or field notes
• Intra- and inter-bureau correspondence, from within and beyond the United States
• Personal papers from reporters and photographers, including notebooks, personal letters, and photo outtakes
• Photos and video footage

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Accessing articles in EBSCO databases

By Anna Sansome, on 21 December 2018

We are currently experiencing problems with accessing articles in EBSCO databases via Explore and Findit@UCL. If you see an error message telling you that the page has not been configured for access:

1. go back to the View It menu in Explore and make a note of the name of the EBSCO database
2. use our A-Z list to access the database you need and search for your article

Note that e.g. EBSCOhost Dentistry & Oral Sciences Source will be listed under D for Dentistry.

Gale Digital Scholar Lab trial extended until 16th January 2019

By , on 6 December 2018

UCL’s trial access to Gale Digital Scholar Lab has been extended until 16th January 2019. Access requires a trial username and password (UCL username and password required to view e-resource password page), then click on ‘Access this Database’

Gale Digital Scholar Lab allows users to explore UCL’s holdings from Gale Primary Sources using Digital Humanities tools which enable new ways of interrogating content, analysing insights and outputting discoveries.

Users can:

• create custom content sets containing as many as 10,000 documents.
• search across their library’s Gale Primary Sources holdings and seamlessly select documents to be added to their custom content set
• analyse and interrogate the data with the built in text analysis and visualization tools. Digital humanities analysis methods include: Named Entity Recognition, Topic Modelling, Parts of Speech, and more
• save content sets allowing them to manage their research for long term projects
• publish their outputs with confidence retaining all intellectual property rights and are free to share analysis outputs

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UCL has trial access to ACSESS Digital Library

By , on 16 November 2018

UCL has trial access to journal content of ACSESS Digital Library until 15th December 2018. To access off-site please use Desktop@UCL Anywhere.

UCL’s trial access to ACSESS Digital Library comprises of the published content of the Alliance of Crop, Soil, and Environmental Science Societies, including their 14 journals. Please note that ebook content isn’t included in the trial, however several titles are open access so freely available to all.

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UCL now has access to Faculti – Education collection

By , on 16 November 2018

UCL now has access to the Education collection of videos in Faculti.

Faculti is an online video library that hosts cutting-edge academic and professional video insights, delivered by the world’s leading figures and institutions. Videos are arranged in categories, with UCL having access to the Education videos. Institutions featured include The United Nations, the British Parliament, Harvard University, Oxford University and leading figures including Ambassadors, Poet Laureates, Pulitzer Prize winners and global thinkers.

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Trial access to Gale Digital Scholar Lab

By , on 9 November 2018

UCL has trial access to Gale Digital Scholar Lab until 4th December 2018. Access requires a trial username and password (UCL username and password required to view e-resource password page), then click on ‘Access this Database’

Gale Digital Scholar Lab allows users to explore UCL’s holdings from Gale Primary Sources using Digital Humanities tools which enable new ways of interrogating content, analysing insights and outputting discoveries.

Users can:

• create custom content sets containing as many as 10,000 documents.
• search across their library’s Gale Primary Sources holdings and seamlessly select documents to be added to their custom content set
• analyse and interrogate the data with the built in text analysis and visualization tools. Digital humanities analysis methods include: Named Entity Recognition, Topic Modelling, Parts of Speech, and more
• save content sets allowing them to manage their research for long term projects
• publish their outputs with confidence retaining all intellectual property rights and are free to share analysis outputs

Please send feedback on this resource to your subject librarian.