We have been informed that due to the proposed closure of the U.S. Department of Education and anticipated staff reductions, ERIC – a key indexing database for education and the social sciences – is undergoing a major overhaul that will see a significant reduction in its content.

Some journal editors have been notified of planned deselections, with the ERIC collection set to be reduced by 45% as of 24 April 2025. A full list of affected journals has yet to be published, but a partial list is being compiled by volunteers and can be found here.

A representative from the Department of Education has indicated that existing records in ERIC should remain accessible. However, given uncertainties around long-term data preservation, researchers are advised to prioritise ERIC in their searching, particularly as journals addressing Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion (DEI) appear to be among those most at risk.

Recommended alternative resources are DOAJ, British Education Index (BEI), SCOPUS and OpenAlex.

We will be monitoring the situation and will update our blog accordingly.

UCL has launched an updated A-Z Databases page

This has been streamlined and has new features including:

• An alert box for important messages regarding online resources
• Flagged New and Trial resources

Changes to the search filters, now allow users to:

• search by keyword within “Subjects”, “Vendors” and “Database Types” (in addition to selecting from the drop-down)
• select more than one option from within a search filter, for example, “Art” and “Biomedicine and Health” within the Subject filter

Please send any feedback to the E-Resources Team

Gale are recruiting for a student ambassador at UCL to undertake awareness-building activities, so that more students can find out about, understand and use their digital archives and other library resources such as eBooks.

Gale is an international publisher of digital archives and other library resources. Gale’s primary sources include full archives of newspapers like The Times, The Telegraph, the Daily Mail and The Economist, as well as period and topical archives like Eighteenth Century Collections Online and Archives of Sexuality and Gender

Gale are recruiting students to undertake awareness-building activities, so more students find out about, understand and use these fascinating archives! Students from all year groups can apply.

The role lasts for the 2024-25 academic year and requires set activities for which Gale Ambassadors are paid £700. Plus, the role is great for your CV…

• Business experience – work directly with a global publisher.
• Run your own marketing activities – refine ‘marketing copy’ and images to make successful use of social media.
• Public speaking – run presentations and training sessions with your fellow students, obtaining valuable public speaking skills.
• Have your work published on a company blog – great, shareable evidence of your work.
• Network – connect with staff and students at the university, other students internationally, and numerous colleagues at Gale.
• Improve your research skills and discover primary sources for your essays – potentially improving your grades!

Deadline is 1st June 2024

Go to the Gale website for more information on the role and how to apply

Refinitiv Workspace is now called LSEG Workspace. UCL’s access includes Workspace (Eikon), SDC Platinum and Datastream.

To request a licence, please complete the Contact the E-Resources Team form.

Gale are recruiting for a student ambassador at UCL to undertake awareness-building activities, so that more students can find out about, understand and use their digital archives and other library resources such as eBooks.

Gale’s primary sources include full archives of newspapers like The Times, The Telegraph, the Daily Mail and The Economist, as well as period and topical archives like Eighteenth Century Collections Online and Archives of Sexuality and Gender.

About the role: 

The role lasts for the 2023-24 academic year and requires set activities for which Gale Ambassadors are paid £700. Plus, the role is great for your CV…

• Business experience – work directly with a global publisher.
• Run your own marketing activities – refine ‘marketing copy’ and images to make successful use of social media.
• Public speaking – run presentations and training sessions with your fellow students, obtaining valuable public speaking skills.
• Have your work published on a company blog – great, shareable evidence of your work.
• Network – connect with staff and students at the university, other students internationally, and numerous colleagues at Gale.
• Improve your own research skills and discover primary sources for your own essays – potentially improving your grades!

Students from all year groups can apply. The deadline is 1 July 2023.

For more information on what the role might involve, read A student’s perspective of using Gale written by Rob Youngs Do Patrocinio, a former Gale Student Ambassador.

Go to the Gale website for more information on the role and how to apply.

UCL’s access to UpToDate will cease on 30th November 2022. All registered users should login before this date to redeem any accrued CPD points

Please send feedback on this resource to your subject librarian.

During the current COVID-19 pandemic many publishers have opened up their collections and extended their access to e-resources to support remote learning and working. Please see the list of  E-Resources with temporary access during COVID-19 which are available either to UCL students and staff or to all. Please note that this is a working list and is being added to as access to the resources is enabled.

Due to recent licence changes UCL undergraduates can now register for WRDS (Wharton Research Data Services) accounts. Once registered, your request may take a few days to be processed.

WRDS includes Compustat data and also data from Bureau van Dijk (BvD) and SNL.

We are currently experiencing problems with accessing articles in EBSCO databases via Explore and Findit@UCL. If you see an error message telling you that the page has not been configured for access:

1. go back to the View It menu in Explore and make a note of the name of the EBSCO database
2. use our A-Z list to access the database you need and search for your article

Note that e.g. EBSCOhost Dentistry & Oral Sciences Source will be listed under D for Dentistry.

PLEASE NOTE THAT THIS MAINTENANCE HAS NOW BEEN POSTPONED

UCL Single Sign-on maintenance, 14th February

Please note that the UCL Single Sign-on, which is used to login to a number of our services and electronic resources, will be unavailable on Tuesday 14th February between 09:00 – 13:00.

Areas which will be affected by the outage include:

• All off-site access to electronic resources
• On-site access to some electronic resources including Dawsonera, EBL/E-Book Central, Digimap, Westlaw and BBC Monitoring
• Login to certain services such as Metalib and Digital Collections

Unfortunately, as this is part of a large-scale datacentre migration project in ISD, a term-time outage is unavoidable but we do apologise for any inconvenience the work may cause.