UCL now has access to The Merck Index Online, the electronic version of the authoritative source of information on chemicals, drugs and biologicals.

The Merck Index Online is an easily-searchable, full-text database containing substance monographs, over 500 organic named reactions and reference tables. All the content from the print edition of The Merck Index is included, plus historic monographs only available online. The Merck Index Online will be updated regularly.

A quick search option allows you to search the database by name, CAS registry number, molecular formula or molecular weight or you can use the main search page to construct a multi-field search across a large variety of data types including various compound properties. Alternatively, you can search by chemical structure using the structure search.

If you have any questions about using the database, please contact your subject librarian.

UCL now has access to a number of new databases and ejournals.  Please see the databases or ejournals list, as appropriate, for links and further information.

BIOSIS Previews Backfiles (1926-1968)
Cambridge Histories Online
Cecil Papers
Colonial State Papers
Compendex backfiles (1884-1969)
Congressional Research Digital Collection
Cult of the Body
Digital National Security Archive
Documents on British Policy Overseas
Ethnographic Video Online
Global health archive
IEEE Wiley ebooks
Illustrated London News (see ejournals list)
Imperial Russia’s Illustrated Press
Mass Media in Russia
Nature Archive 1869-1949 (see ejournals list)
Neurology backfile (see ejournals list)
Popular Literature, Fiction and Songs in Imperial Russia
Russian Anarchist Periodicals of the 20th Century
Russian Theatre in the Early Twentieth Century
Scientific American Archive + Supplement (see ejournals list)
Social Theory
Springer backfiles (we now have all collections; see ejournals list)
Springer Protocols
Taylor and Francis backfiles (3 collections – Arts & Humanities, Behavioral Science, and Politics, International Relations & Area Studies) (see ejournals list)
Web of Knowledge Science Citation Index (1900-1944)
Yearbook of the Imperial Theatre (1890-1915)

 UCL now has access to two ebook packages for Anthropology and Geography:

• Anthropology and Social Studies ebooks from Berg
• Geography and Sustainable Development ebooks from Earthscan

 UCL now subscribes to the electronic versions of Who’s Who and Who Was Who.

Who’s Who contains over 33,000 short biographies, continually updated, of living noteworthy and influential individuals, from all walks of life, worldwide. 

The first edition of Who Was Who contained the entries from Who’s Who of those who had died between 1897 and 1915 with the date of death added to each.  Subsequent volumes of Who Was Who — there are now eleven — cover the years from 1916 to 2005.

There is a link to Who’s Who and Who Was Who on UCL Library Services’ databases list.

UCL’s access to Oxford Language Dictionaries Online now includes Russian.  This section of the site comprises more than 500,000 words, phrases and translations from the fourth edition of the Oxford Russian Dictionary, as well as tools and resources.

French, German, Italian and Spanish are also available on Oxford Language Dictionaries Online.

This is a reminder about the current ebooks project involving UCL and Cambridge University Press.  This project gives UCL users access to 750 ebooks in a variety of subjects, including law, anthropology, medicine, psychology and life sciences.  These ebooks are hosted on the MyiLibrary platform, where you can browse and search the titles that are part of the project.  In addition, all the titles appear on the Library catalogue. 

UCL students and staff now have access to the Wiley reference work Current Protocols in Neuroscience.  Select the link to the archive on the publication home page to view the core publication, from 1997, and all subsequent supplements.

UCL Library Services has bought the backfiles of three Chemistry ebook series:

Compendium of Organic Synthetic Methods  Vols. 1-8
Inorganic Syntheses Vols. 1-32              
Total Syntheses of Natural Products Vols. 1-11