UCL now has access to ZEDHIA

By Sarah Gilmore, on 5 December 2024

UCL user 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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UCL has access to the IEA Statistics Package (ISP)

By Sarah Gilmore, on 28 November 2024

UCL users have access to the IEA Statistics Package (ISP) which covers the IEA data previously accessible via OECD iLibrary.

Please navigate to IEA Statistics Package (ISP) and select Access on WDS. This package comprises of:

• World Energy Statistics
• World Energy Balances
• Coal Information
• Electricity Information
• Natural Gas Information
• Oil Information
• Renewables Information
• Greenhouse Gas Emissions from Energy
• Energy End-uses and Efficiency Indicators
• Energy Prices, including OECD Energy Prices and Taxes – Quarterly, World Energy Prices, Monthly Prices
• Energy Technology RD&D Budgets
• Projections: Energy policies of OECD countries
• Energy Projections of IEA Countries – with Extended Transitions Indicators
• IEA Energy and Carbon Tracker

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Trial access to British Colonial Policy and Intelligence Files on Asia and the Middle East, c. 1880–c. 1950 from Brill

By Sarah Gilmore, on 18 October 2024

UCL has trial access to British Colonial Policy and Intelligence Files on Asia and the Middle East, c. 1880–c. 1950 from Brill until 16th November 2024.

British Colonial Policy and Intelligence Files on Asia and the Middle East, c. 1880–c. 1950 is a primary source database consisting of the following collections:

• British Intelligence and Policy on Persia (Iran), c. 1900–1949
• British Intelligence on Afghanistan and Its Frontiers, c. 1888–1946
• British Military Intelligence on China and the Boxer Rising, c. 1880–1930
• British Intelligence on Russia in Central Asia, c. 1865–1949
• British Intelligence on Siam (Thailand) and Mainland Southeast Asia, c. 1887–1948
• British Intelligence Files on the Chinese in Tibet (c. 1900–1950)
• British Intelligence on the Gulf Arab States, c. 1914–1948
• British Intelligence on The North-West Frontier, 1901–1949
• British Intelligence on Yemen, c. 1880–1967
• The Creation of Modern Iraq, c. 1914–1921
• The Creation of Modern Saudi Arabia, c. 1914–1939
• Delineating British Burma, c. 1826–1949
• Indian Political Intelligence Files, 1912–1950
• The Rise of Modern Turkey, c. 1906–1939

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Trial access to Palestine: The British Mandate, 1917–1948 and Palestine: The Legal Background from Brill

By Sarah Gilmore, on 15 October 2024

UCL has trial access to Palestine: The British Mandate, 1917–1948 and Palestine: The Legal Background until 13th November 2024.

• Palestine: The British Mandate, 1917–1948 offers a comprehensive range of primary sources on the history of Mandatory Palestine. It gives access to the principal memoranda, statements and reports published during the time of the British Mandate, from the Balfour Declaration of 1917 to the end of the Mandate in 1948. It includes the White Papers and reports relating to the Official Commissions sent to Palestine. Also included are the British reports to the Permanent Mandate Commission of the League of Nations, since Palestine was assigned to the League of Nations, Great Britain being the trustee. In addition, the collection contains sources pertaining to the social, demographic and economic development of Palestine.
• Palestine: The Legal Background offers source materials on the legal position of the Israeli-Occupied Territories until 1984, including military orders and regulations issued by the Israeli Government. Additional sources, such as the Ottoman laws and the Palestine Gazette, have been added to offer a wider historical context.

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UCL now has access to Orbis data within WRDS (Wharton Research Data Services)

By Sarah Gilmore, on 9 October 2024

UCL users now have access to Orbis data within WRDS (Wharton Research Data Services).

Orbis covers public and private companies, banks, non-banking financial institutions, insurance companies, marine vessels, sole proprietorships, funds, individuals, shareholders, ultimate owners,
beneficial owners, and subsidiaries.

Access is via a WRDS account: select the Register tab, complete the Account Request form to create a username and password and wait for a confirmation access email (this can take a few days).

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UCL now has access to Orbis Intellectual Property (Orbis IP)

By Sarah Gilmore, on 9 October 2024

UCL users now have access to Orbis Intellectual Property (Orbis IP).

Orbis IP is a database of over 145 million patents, linked to detailed company information and ownership structures.

Features:

• Linking 145 million patents to over 2.3 million companies
• Tracking M&A transactions so you can monitor patent ownership overtime
• Review corporate ownership structures of patent owners
• 82 million patent valuations for all granted live patents
• Tracking valuation and technology trends over time
• Global litigations linked to companies and patents

Benefits:

• Uncover patent portfolios owned by subsidiaries in a corporate group
• Assess the trends and commercial appeal of a new technology
• Benchmark and measure how innovative companies are by region
• Interpret your research in seconds using our data visualisation tools
• Understand the company and shareholders owning a patent
• See innovation patterns using up-to-date acquisitions and M&A data
• Identify patent trends through technology landscape and whitespace analyses
• Benchmark industries, companies, regions and countries
• Quickly identify the leading innovators in any technology field

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Trial access to Film & Television Literature Index with Full Text from EBSCO

By Sarah Gilmore, on 24 September 2024

UCL has trial access to Film & Television Literature Index with Full Text until 22nd October 2024.

Film & Television Literature Index with Full Text overs the spectrum of film and television studies, providing comprehensive collection of full text from scholarly and popular sources. In addition to the full-text journals, the database also includes Variety movie reviews dating back to 1914.

Content Includes:

• More than 100 active full-text journals and magazines
• More than 70 active full-text, peer-reviewed journals
• More than 60 active full-text, peer-reviewed journals with no embargo
• More than 65,000 images from the MPTV Image Archive

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UCL now has access to additional HeinOnline databases

By Sarah Gilmore, on 5 September 2024

UCL now has access to HeinOnline Intellectual Property Law Collection and HeinOnline Philip C. Jessup Library in addition to our existing HeinOnline databases

HeinOnline Intellectual Property Law Collection is a collection of intellectual property material including legislative histories, treatises, documents, books, periodicals, and more relating to copyrights, patents, and trademarks.

HeinOnline Philip C. Jessup Library is an online collection of the materials of the Philip C. Jessup International Law Moot Court Competition

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