Trial access to JET Magazine Archive and Atla – Perspectives on Ancient Civilizations, 1200-1922 (EBSCO)

By Sarah Gilmore, on 17 May 2023

UCL has trial access to JET Magazine Archive and Atla – Perspectives on Ancient Civilizations, 1200-1922 from EBSCO until 30th June 2023.

JET Magazine Archive covers the civil rights movement, politics, education, and other social topics with an African American focus. It includes over 3,000 issues providing a broad view of news, culture, and entertainment from its first issue in 1951 through 2014.

Atla – Perspectives on Ancient Civilizations, 1200-1922 features nearly 900 monographs related to ancient civilizations and cultures from to the Biblical and Classical periods, including Assyrian, Babylonian, Sumerian, Egyptian, Hittite, Greek, and others. The collection covers cultures that existed alongside the Hebrew people who had a strong influence on the formation of the Hebrew scriptures. It includes significant holdings concerning the Akkadian, Syriac, Sumerian, and Egyptian languages and subject areas such as literature, mythology, inscriptions, religion, philosophy, and law.

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Trial access to LGBTQ+ Source (EBSCO)

By Sarah Gilmore, on 11 May 2023

UCL has trial access to LGBTQ+ Source from EBSCO until 9th July 2023.

LGBTQ+ Source provides full-text coverage for the most important and historically significant literature on lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender issues. In addition, this resource provides indexing and abstracts for hundreds of journals, books, newspapers and reference works

Content Includes:
• Over 200 full-text journals
• 200 five-minute videos providing first-person accounts from those in the lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender and queer community
• Over 300 indexed and abstracted journals
• Over 140 peer-reviewed indexed and abstracted journals
• Over 400 indexed and abstracted books and reference works

Topics Covered:
• Feminist theory
• Gay and lesbian spirituality
• Gender stereotypes
• LGBTQ+ history
• LGBTQ+ law
• Same-sex marriage
• Transgender issues

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UCL now has access to ProQuest Black Studies

By Sarah Gilmore, on 9 May 2023

UCL now has access to ProQuest Black Studies

Bringing together ProQuest’s Black Studies content, this collection combines primary and secondary sources, including leading historical Black newspapers, archival documents and collections, key government materials, videos, writings by major Black intellectuals and leaders, scholarly journals, and essays by top scholars in Black Studies

Content featured:

• Schomburg Studies on the Black Experience and Black Studies Periodicals, over 120 archival collections and 160 full text periodicals
• Black Historical Newspapers: Atlanta Daily World (1931–2010); Baltimore Afro-American (1893–2010); Chicago Defender (1910–2010); Cleveland Call and Post (1934–2010); Los Angeles Sentinel (1934–2010); Michigan Chronicle (1936–2010); New York Amsterdam News (1922–2010); Norfolk Journal and Guide (1916–2010); Philadelphia Tribune (1912–2010); Pittsburgh Courier (1911–2010)
• NAACP Papers and Civil Rights Organizational Papers
• Black Abolitionist Papers

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Trial access to Public Health Archives: Public Health in Modern America, 1890-1970

By Sarah Gilmore, on 2 May 2023

UCL has trial access to Public Health Archives: Public Health in Modern America, 1890-1970, Gale Primary Sources, until 1st June 2023.

Public Health Archives: Public Health in Modern America, 1890-1970 documents the rise of the twentieth-century public health system in the United States through correspondence, reports, pamphlets, ephemera, and more. Through primary sources, this archive documents the evolution and impact of public health legislation, policies, and campaigns at the local, national, and federal levels, highlighting the roles played by key organizations and individuals to advance public health practices and outcomes.

The archive also tells a tale of twentieth-century urbanization and industrialization, the rise of public advocacy and impact of legislation at various levels, the transformation of domestic life, the role of state control in the care of its populations, the challenges presented by differences of and social attitudes respecting race, ethnicity, gender, citizenship, age, ability, and class, and finally the means, methods, and mechanisms for organizing and financing public health policy initiatives.

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UCL now has access to Policy Commons: Global Think Tank information

By Sarah Gilmore, on 19 April 2023

UCL now has access to Policy Commons’ subscriber content.

This includes access to more than 24 million pages of curated, high quality policy reports, briefs, analyses, working papers, and datasets from thousands of policy organisations including IGOs, NGOs and think tanks.

Please view this short video introducing the platform and features.

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UCL has access to additional ProQuest and Alexander Street databases

By Sarah Gilmore, on 5 April 2023

UCL now has access to an increased selection of ProQuest and Alexander Street databases

New ProQuest databases:

• Early European Books Collections 20 & 21
• Colonial Legacies: Empire and Commonwealth Periodicals
• Entertainment Industry Magazine Archive Collection 5: Video Gaming 
• Gerritsen Women’s History Collection of Aletta H. Jacobs
• Historical Newspapers: Baltimore Afro-American
• Historical Newspapers: Call Post Cleveland Call & Post Subscription
• Historical Newspapers: Chinese Newspaper Collection
• Historical Newspapers: Los Angeles Sentinel
• Historical Newspapers: New York Amsterdam News
• Historical Newspapers: Norfolk Journal and Guide
• LGBT Magazine Archive Collection 2
• Women’s Wear Daily Archive
• Youth and Popular Culture Magazine Archive

Alexander Street databases:

• Engineering Case Studies Online
• Gilded Age
• Psychological Experiments Online
• Women and Social Movements: Development and the Global South, 1919-2019

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UCL now has access to BFI Player

By Sarah Gilmore, on 5 April 2023

UCL now has access to BFI Player. UCL has access to 100s of exceptional films handpicked by the BFI and available to watch anytime. Stream new, cult and classic films – instant access to exceptional movies hand-picked for you by people with a passion for cinema.

 To set up access to your BFI Player subscription follow these steps: 

• Go to https://player.bfi.org.uk/academic/subscribe and create an account OR sign in if you already have one by selecting ‘Already have an account? Sign in’
• Select University College London from the dropdown list
• Login using your UCL username and password

Make sure you tick the box ‘I’d like to receive the BFI Player newsletter’ for exclusive competitions, watchlists and other BFI opportunities via email. 

Please note:

• Once you’ve set up your subscription, you can login on BFI Player for the remainder of this academic year. You don’t need to use the subscribe link
• BFI Player is unavailable outside the UK
• To be used by UCL students and staff for academic purposes only
• Rentals and festival events are not included in the subscription offer

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Trial access to Deutsch-jüdische Quellen aus Palästina/Israel, Encyclopedia of Jewish-Christian Relations Online, Handbuch des Antisemitismus Online, Klemperer Online and Singerman Bibliography of Antisemitic Texts in English

By Sarah Gilmore, on 30 March 2023

UCL has trial access to Deutsch-jüdische Quellen aus Palästina/Israel, Encyclopedia of Jewish-Christian Relations Online, Handbuch des Antisemitismus Online, Klemperer Online and Singerman Bibliography of Antisemitic Texts in English until 29th April 2023.

These resources can be cross searched using the Jewish Studies Portal: Jüdische Studien Portal

• Deutsch-jüdische Quellen aus Palästina/Israel: contains writings of all genres of German-Jewish immigrants that were published between 1890-2000 in Palestine and Israel. It contains approximately 1,500 entries, of which ca. 250 are linked to their full texts.
• Encyclopedia of Jewish-Christian Relations Online: covers a wide range of topics, including, but not limited to theological concepts (e.g., Christology, Excommunication) spiritual and religious practices (e.g., Prayer, Blessing), ritual (Circumcision, Baptism, Dietary Laws), geographic topics (Ashkenaz, Middle East), denominational concepts (Karaites, Reform Judaism) and political and historical issues (Zionism, Antisemitism).
• Handbuch des Antisemitismus Online: contains all of the 2,200 entries of the print version of the Handbuch des Antisemitismus (8 volumes, 2008–2015).  It includes 650 biographies from late antiquity up to the present day; entries on Judaeophobia in 85 countries and regions; terms, theories and ideologies of antisemitism; events, legislative and administrative actions of discrimination and controversies; organizations, publications as well as more than 700 entries that survey cultural antisemitism in film, theater, literature, and the visual arts.
• Klemperer Online: the database makes available the complete and unabridged diaries of Victor Klemperer, which are among the most important sources of 20th-century German history. The texts feature an extensive commentary and contain over a third more material than the print edition.
• Singerman Bibliography of Antisemitic Texts in English: this bibliographic database identifies a significant variety of books, pamphlets, ephemera, and selected articles, either written in English or translated into English, from the beginning of the 19th century extending to 2022 imprints. The sources come from different countries around the world and the texts reflect a wide diversity of religious, extremist, and nationalist ideologies

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Trial access to Building Types Online

By Sarah Gilmore, on 30 March 2023

UCL has trial access to Building Types Online until 29th April 2023.

Building Types Online is a resource for the study and practice of architectural design. It is based on Birkhäuser’s high international standing in professional architecture books, on the knowledge of the authors and editors who are leading experts in their fields, as well as on the technical quality of the illustrations. The database offers flexible and detailed search and browse access to the contents of the Birkhäuser program on building types. All content was written and selected by internationally renowned authors in architectural design.

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UCL now has access to the Royal College of Physicians Digital Archive: Part I: 1101-1862, History of Medicine from Folklore to Modern Public Health Policy

By Sarah Gilmore, on 23 March 2023

UCL now has access to the Royal College of Physicians Digital Archive: Part I: 1101-1862, History of Medicine from Folklore to Modern Public Health Policy from Wiley Digital Archives

The Royal College of Physicians Digital Archive: Part I: 1101-1862 covers the history of medicine, medical humanities, medicine and culture, religion, and government, the establishment of public health systems, and the policies governing medical education and practice, with content spanning from the twelfth to the nineteenth century. It contains monographs, rare books, manuscripts, correspondence, reports, conference papers, medical reports, medical education textbooks, proceedings, lectures, anatomical drawings, public health surveys, photographs, drawings, data and ephemera.

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