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More subject areas added to UCL’s Oxford Bibliographies Online access

By Anna Sansome, on 30 June 2021

UCL has purchased access to three more modules of Oxford Bibliographies Online – Childhood Studies, Cinema & Media Studies, and Communication.

The aim of Oxford Bibliographies Online is to offer authoritative guides to the best available scholarship on a variety of academic topics. Written and reviewed by academic experts and updated to evolve with current scholarship, the guides combine high-level overviews with commentary, annotations and citations. UCL now has access to twenty five of the subject areas covered by OBO:

American Literature
Anthropology
Art History
Atlantic History
Biblical Studies
British and Irish Literature
Childhood Studies
Cinema & Media Studies
Classics
Communication
Criminology
Geography
International Law
International Relations
Islamic Studies
Latin American Studies
Linguistics
Literary & Critical Theory
Medieval Studies
Philosophy
Political Science
Psychology
Renaissance & Reformation
Sociology
Victorian Literature

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Brill’s Encyclopedia of Jewish History and Culture now available online at UCL

By Anna Sansome, on 24 June 2021

UCL has purchased online access to Brill’s Encyclopedia of Jewish History, the English edition of the Enzyklopädie jüdischer Geschichte und Kultur, which is also included in our online access. The Encyclopedia is a reference work for the history and culture of modern Jewry, covering the period from 1750 until the 1950s, and provides a complex portrait of Jewish life from all of Europe to America, the Middle East, North Africa and other non-European Jewish settlement areas.

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Online access to Manchester Studies in Imperialism series now available at UCL

By Anna Sansome, on 22 June 2021

UCL staff and students now have access to all the digitised volumes of the Studies in Imperialism series from Manchester University Press. The series aims to focus attention on the tightly interwoven relationships between British and Imperial histories, covering a spectrum of cultural phenomena, propaganda, social control and migration, as well as examining aspects of gender and sex, frontiers and law, science and the environment, language and literature, migration and patriotic societies. You can find all the e-books available in this series in UCL Library Explore. We will have access to new volumes as they are published.

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UCL now has access to the Oxford Research Encyclopedias of Criminology & Criminal Justice and Politics

By Anna Sansome, on 22 April 2021

UCL staff and students now have access to the Oxford Research Encyclopedia of Criminology & Criminal Justice and the Oxford Research Encyclopedia of Politics.

The Oxford Research Encyclopedias (OREs) aim to provide a comprehensive collections of in-depth, peer-reviewed summaries on growing range of topics in a particular field of study. UCL now has access to OREs in seven disciplines:

American history
Asian history
Criminology and criminal justice
Education
Latin American history
Politics
Psychology

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End of access to Dawsonera – action required on notes made

By Anna Sansome, on 17 July 2020

Dawsonera, one of the e-book platforms used by UCL, has gone into administration and will cease to operate after 31st July. We are making arrangements to transfer access to our Dawsonera e-books to other platforms and will update Explore when this is done. Any notes that you may have made on Dawsonera e-books will not be transferred and we would therefore advise you to export any notes you have made before 31st July. You will need to do this title by title, opening the e-book in read online mode, going to the notes tab and clicking export.

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JSTOR e-books on demand now closed

By Anna Sansome, on 10 January 2020

Over 1,800 e-books added to UCL’s collection.

The money that UCL Library Services deposited for the latest round of e-books on demand@UCL via JSTOR has now been spent, with over 1,800 e-books being purchased since we opened up access in October 2019. Over the six rounds of e-books on demand@UCL via JSTOR, over 14,800 e-books have been purchased.

Go to our e-books on demand@UCL webpage to find out more about the various projects that UCL Library Services is running to directly involve users in the acquisition of e-book content. If you have feedback about any of the e-books on demand projects, please contact your subject librarian.

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Return of e-books on demand@UCL via JSTOR

By Anna Sansome, on 24 October 2019

50,000+ e-books available via JSTOR for a limited period – read the e-books you want and UCL Library Services will buy the most popular.

UCL Library Services are once again offering staff and students access to a large part of the JSTOR e-book collection. You can now read over 50,000 e-books via JSTOR across a range of subjects and languages. This is a PDA project, which means we will be buying the e-books you use most until the money we have deposited has been spent. We are working to get the records loaded as soon as possible so that you can find these additional e-books via Explore but in the meantime, you can go directly to JSTOR.

This is one of a series of projects that UCL Library Services is running to directly involve users in the acquisition of e-book content. Go to our e-books on demand@UCL webpage to find out more about the various projects. If you have feedback about this or any of the other e-books on demand project, please contact your subject librarian.

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Trial access to reference content in biomedical sciences, life sciences and neuroscience & biobehavioral psychology

By Anna Sansome, on 21 August 2019

UCL has trial access to three of Elsevier’s Reference Modules until September 2020.

The Reference Modules are subject-focused collections intended to provide authoritative, foundational content for students and interdisciplinary researchers. The Reference Modules are each overseen by an editorial board and combine a set of curated and updated articles from Elsevier’s major reference works with newly-written content. In addition, access is provided to the full content of the underlying reference works.

UCL is trialling access to:

Reference Module in Biomedical Sciences
This includes access to the latest editions of reference works such as the Encyclopedia of Biomedical Engineering, the Encyclopedia of Tissue Engineering and Regenerative Medicine, the Encyclopedia of Cardiovascular Research and Medicine, the International Encyclopedia of Public Health and Comprehensive Toxicology – see the full list of titles included in the trial in Explore.

Reference Module in Life Sciences
This includes access to the latest editions of reference works such as the Encyclopedia of Animal Behaviour and the Encyclopedia of Bioinformatics and Computational Biology – see the full list of titles included in the trial in Explore.

Reference Module in Neuroscience & Biobehavioral Psychology
This includes access to the latest editions of reference works such as Learning and Memory: A Comprehensive Reference, Comprehensive Clinical Psychology and the Encyclopedia of Movement Disorders – see the full list of titles included in the trial in Explore.

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E-books on demand@UCL – De Gruyter e-books

By Anna Sansome, on 1 November 2017

New publisher added to E-books on demand@UCL

As part of the E-books on demand@UCL scheme, UCL Library Services is now offering access to over 29,000 e-books published by De Gruyter, its imprint Birkhäuser and its partner publishers Böhlau Verlag, DETAIL, Gütersloher Verlagshaus, Institute of Southeast Asian Studies (ISEAS) Publishing, Multilingual Matters, Otto Schmidt Verlag, RWS Verlag, Transcript and Verlag Dr. Otto Schmidt.

Access started on 1st October 2017 and will run until 30th September 2018, when we will review the usage and decide which e-books to add to our collection permanently. You can find all these e-books by searching Explore. Judging by October’s usage, these e-books are proving popular but if you have any feedback then do let your Subject Librarian know.

E-books on demand@UCL is designed to involve UCL staff and students in the selection of e-book content. Since the scheme started in 2014, UCL users have been able to read and download thousands of extra e-books across a wide range of subjects and over 7000 e-books have been purchased as a result. Go to our Ebooks on demand@UCL webpage to find out more about the various projects.

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Trial access to Reference Module in Earth Systems and Environmental Science (Elsevier)

By Sarah Gilmore, on 19 October 2017

UCL has trial access to Elsevier’s Reference Module in Earth Systems and Environmental Science until September 2018.

Reference Module in Earth Systems and Environmental Science is a subject-focused collection of current encyclopedic and comprehensive articles from Elsevier’s world-leading Major Reference Works, combined with new and exclusively-written articles within the discipline to create one online, authoritative information source hosted on ScienceDirect.

During the trial to the Reference Module in Earth Systems and Environmental Science UCL now has access to the following titles:

Climate Vulnerability

Comprehensive Biotechnology, 2nd Edition

Comprehensive Renewable Energy

Comprehensive Water Quality and Purification

Encyclopedia of Ecology

Encyclopedia of Energy

Encyclopedia of Energy, Natural Resource, and Environmental Economics

Encyclopedia of Geology

Encyclopedia of Inland Waters

Encyclopedia of Ocean Sciences, 2nd Edition

Encyclopedia of Quaternary Science , 2nd Edition