New databases
By Lesley A Rogers, on 26 March 2012
UCL now has access to the following resources which can be accessed via the databases list:
Safari Books Online is the premier on-demand digital library providing over 19151 technology, digital media, and business books and videos online to academic and library users.
Science of Synthesis is a reference work for preparative methods in synthetic chemistry. Its product-based classification system enables chemists to easily find a solution to their synthetic problems.
Collection 2 which contains early printed volumes from the Biblioteca Nazionale Centrale di Firenze (National Central Library of Florence). The selection of works focuses on four collections of particular historic and bibliographic importance within the library’s holdings from this period:
1.The Nencini Aldine Collection
2.Marginalia.
3.Incunabula
4.Sacred Representations
Collection 3 is substantially larger than the previous collections, containing 3 million pages in total, from volumes scanned at four different libraries, encompassing works in all major European languages:
Biblioteca Nazionale Centrale di Firenze (National Central Library of Florence, Italy)
Koninklijke Bibliotheek (National Library of the Netherlands)
The Wellcome Library, London
Det Kongelige Bibliotek (Royal Library, Copenhagen)