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Trial access to ProQuest One Business
By Sarah Gilmore, on 16 May 2025
UCL has trial access to ProQuest One Business until 15th June 2025.
ProQuest One Business combines multiple ProQuest business information databases – including e.g. the ABI/INFORM Collection and J.P. Morgan Research – to a total of more than 130 million documents. The database delivers a mix of practical and theoretical content in a business-focused experience that guides users and helps students build the research skills they’ll need for success.
- For more details about what’s included, please refer to the content page
For more details on the specific features unique to ProQuest One Business, please see the unique Features page
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Trial access to AM Research Skills
By Sarah Gilmore, on 9 May 2025
UCL has trial access to AM Research Skills from AM Digital until 3rd June 2025.
AM Research Skills helps users build the skills needed to conduct research and evaluate primary sources with confidence. A modular tool designed to support students of the humanities and social sciences, AM Research Skills introduces the key approaches to working with source materials and historical evidence.
Answering the questions:
- What are primary sources?
- How can you use them in your research?
- Why are some historical documents archived and why did others disappear?
- Why does it matter today?
Please send feedback on this resource to your subject librarian.
Trial access to History Vault: Vietnam War and American Foreign Policy, 1960-1975
By Sarah Gilmore, on 8 May 2025
UCL has trial access to History Vault: Vietnam War and American Foreign Policy, 1960-1975 from ProQuest until 6th June 2025.
History Vault: Vietnam War and American Foreign Policy, 1960-1975 is collection of primary source materials focusing on the Vietnam War and the U.S. government’s involvement. It covers the period from the early Kennedy administration to the end of the war and the evacuation of U.S. troops. The collection includes documents from various sources, including the CIA, State Department, military, media, and presidential administrations.
Please send feedback on this resource to your subject librarian.
UCL now has access to all content within British Standards Online
By Sarah Gilmore, on 8 May 2025
UCL users now have access to all content within British Standards Online. Access is for UCL students and staff only via the Institutional Login option, sign in with your UCL username and password.
The content which has been added is:
- BSOL Unadopted ISO
- Wiring Regulations Module including the 2022 BS 7671 Updated IET Wiring Regulations
Please send feedback on this resource to your subject librarian.
Trial access to LitBase from EBSCO
By Sarah Gilmore, on 8 May 2025
UCL has trial access to LitBase from EBSCO until 6th August 2025.
LitBase is a world literature database with critical primary and secondary texts to support research of the most studied authors and their works. LitBase offers a diverse spread of content including full text writing from all parts of the world and marginalized groups, such as black authors, women’s authors and the LGBTQ+ community.
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Trial access to Empire Studies – AM Scholar
By Sarah Gilmore, on 8 May 2025
UCL has trial access to Empire Studies – AM Scholar until 3rd June 2025. Please note that PDF download options are not available during trials.
Empire Studies – AM Scholar offers an array of sources for the study of the British Empire. It features material on British colonial policy and government; perspectives on life in British colonies; the relationship between gender and empire; race; and class.
Highlights include:
- Letterbooks and personal papers of Duncan Campbell, a key figure in the founding of the Sydney colony in New South Wales
- Manuscript sources on the condition of indigenous women and the extension of suffrage to women within the Empire from The National Archives
- The personal papers of Lachlan Macquarie, Governor of New South Wales from 1810-1821
- Correspondence and papers relating to Jamaican plantation life in the eighteenth and nineteenth-centuries
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Paid business experience with Gale, a global publisher
By Sarah Gilmore, on 8 May 2025
Gale are recruiting for a student ambassador at UCL to undertake awareness-building activities, so that more students can find out about, understand and use their digital archives and other library resources such as eBooks.
Gale is an international publisher of digital archives and other library resources. Gale’s primary sources include full archives of newspapers like The Times, The Telegraph, the Daily Mail and The Economist, as well as period and topical archives like Eighteenth Century Collections Online and Archives of Sexuality and Gender
Gale are recruiting students to undertake awareness-building activities, so more students find out about, understand and use these fascinating archives! Students from all year groups can apply.
The role lasts for the 2025-26 academic year and requires set activities for which Gale Ambassadors are paid £750. Plus, the role is great for your CV…
- Business experience – work directly with a global publisher.
- Run your own marketing activities – refine ‘marketing copy’ and images to make successful use of social media.
- Public speaking – run presentations and training sessions with your fellow students, obtaining valuable public speaking skills.
- Have your work published on a company blog – great, shareable evidence of your work.
- Network – connect with staff and students at the university, other students internationally, and numerous colleagues at Gale.
- Improve your research skills and discover primary sources for your essays – potentially improving your grades!
Deadline is 1st July 2025
Go to the Gale website for more information on the role and how to apply
UCL now has access to BBC Monitoring: Summary of World Broadcasts, Essential Global Media, 1939-2001
By Sarah Gilmore, on 7 May 2025
UCL users now have access to BBC Monitoring: Summary of World Broadcasts, Essential Global Media, 1939-2001 from Readex.
BBC Monitoring was founded in 1939 at the start of WWII. Its purpose was to listen to radio broadcasts and gather open-source intelligence to help Britain and its allies understand global dynamics and assess emerging global threats. Over the next 60 years, the scope of its monitoring grew quickly. Trained specialists transcribed broadcasts of speeches, current affairs, political discussions, and social and cultural events worldwide. Transcripts, in turn, were translated into English, then read by experts who carefully selected critical content for publication. Finally, selections were summarized and curated into daily reports that comprise the Summary of World Broadcasts. These original daily reports often included commentary and evaluation by subject matter experts, as well as synopses and specialist briefings.
UCL’s trial access covers the full collection, series 1-4, 1939 to 2001.
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UCL now has access to additional ProQuest and Alexander Street databases
By Sarah Gilmore, on 7 May 2025
UCL users now have access to the following ProQuest and Alexander Street databases:
- British and Irish Women’s Letters and Diaries : includes the immediate experiences of approximately 500 women, as revealed in over 100,000 pages of diaries and letters spanning more than 300 years
- Communist Historical Newspaper Collection : ProQuest Historical Newspapers : archival access to the 9 publications of the Communist Party USA, 1919-2013
- Early European Book collections 22-25 : updates our existing access, we now have collections 1-25
- DNSA – collections 38-64 : updates our existing access, we now have collections 1-64
- Ethnicity & Culture Magazine Archive : backfiles of more than thirty 20th-21st century magazines from communities including African American, Latinx, Asian, and indigenous, as well as publications reflecting the European immigration to the US from the 19th century onwards
Please send feedback on this resource to your subject librarian
Trial access to Women’s Studies – AM Scholar
By Sarah Gilmore, on 6 May 2025
UCL has trial access to Women’s Studies – AM Scholar until 3rd June 20o25. Please note that PDF download options are not available during trials.
Women’s Studies – AM Scholar offers access to the works and legacy of many notable and influential women, and also a chance to hear the voices of forgotten and ordinary women.
Modules include:
- Aristocratic Women: The Social, Political and Cultural History of Rich and Powerful Women, 1722-1833
- Colonial Discourses: Women, Travel & Empire, 1660-1914
- International Women’s Suffrage: Suffrage Correspondence of Rose Scott, 1847-1925
- Women, Education and Literature: The Papers of Maria Edgeworth, 1818-1834
- Women, Emancipation and Literature: The Papers of Harriet Martineau, 1849-1866
- Women, Morality and Advice Literature: Manuscripts and Rare Printed Works of Hannah More, 1745-1833
- Women, Suffrage and Politics: The Papers of Sylvia Pankhurst, 1882-1960
- Women, Writing and Travel: The Diaries of Stella Benson
- Women’s Autobiographies: Rare printed autobiographies of fifty-five women’s lives, 1713-1859
- Women’s Journals of the Nineteenth Century: The Women’s Penny Paper and Woman’s Herald, 1888-1893
- Women’s Suffrage and Government Control: Papers from the Cabinet, Home Office and Metropolitan Police Files in the National Archives, UK, 1906-1922
- Women’s Suffrage Collection: From Manchester Central Library, 1868
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