UCL users now have access to Orbis data within WRDS (Wharton Research Data Services).

Orbis covers public and private companies, banks, non-banking financial institutions, insurance companies, marine vessels, sole proprietorships, funds, individuals, shareholders, ultimate owners,
beneficial owners, and subsidiaries.

Access is via a WRDS account: select the Register tab, complete the Account Request form to create a username and password and wait for a confirmation access email (this can take a few days).

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UCL users now have access to Orbis Intellectual Property (Orbis IP).

Orbis IP is a database of over 145 million patents, linked to detailed company information and ownership structures.

Features:

• Linking 145 million patents to over 2.3 million companies
• Tracking M&A transactions so you can monitor patent ownership overtime
• Review corporate ownership structures of patent owners
• 82 million patent valuations for all granted live patents
• Tracking valuation and technology trends over time
• Global litigations linked to companies and patents

Benefits:

• Uncover patent portfolios owned by subsidiaries in a corporate group
• Assess the trends and commercial appeal of a new technology
• Benchmark and measure how innovative companies are by region
• Interpret your research in seconds using our data visualisation tools
• Understand the company and shareholders owning a patent
• See innovation patterns using up-to-date acquisitions and M&A data
• Identify patent trends through technology landscape and whitespace analyses
• Benchmark industries, companies, regions and countries
• Quickly identify the leading innovators in any technology field

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UCL now has access to HeinOnline Intellectual Property Law Collection and HeinOnline Philip C. Jessup Library in addition to our existing HeinOnline databases

HeinOnline Intellectual Property Law Collection is a collection of intellectual property material including legislative histories, treatises, documents, books, periodicals, and more relating to copyrights, patents, and trademarks.

HeinOnline Philip C. Jessup Library is an online collection of the materials of the Philip C. Jessup International Law Moot Court Competition

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UCL now has access to Gallup Analytics

Gallup Analytics contains unique public opinion data and analysis compiled by Gallup. It includes answers to more than 125,000 questions, and responses from more than 3.5 million people interviewed in the Unites States since 1935.

The platform can be used to:

• perform detailed searches on hundreds of U.S. and global metrics
• examine data by demographic and socio-economic groups, including income, education, age and gender
• export data to create custom data tables, trends, charts and scatter plots

Gallup Analytics has three sections:

• Gallup Brain (historic surveys going back to 1935)
• Gallup World Poll (surveys from 160+ countries since 2005)
• Gallup Daily Tracking (daily surveys across the US since 2008)

Users can access Gallup’s U.S. Daily tracking and World Poll data to compare residents’ responses region by region and nation by nation to questions on topics such as economic conditions, government and business, health and wellbeing, infrastructure, and education.

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UCL now has access to SocIndex with full text

SocIndex with full text from EBSCO is a sociology research database, it features:

• more than 2.1 million records with subject headings from a 20,000+ term sociological thesaurus designed by subject experts and expert lexicographers
• full text for more than 860 journals dating back to 1908
• full text for 830 books and monographs
• full text of over 16,800 conference papers

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• Global Plants : the world’s largest database of digitized plant specimens
• 19th Century British Pamphlets : contains the most significant British pamphlets from the 19th century held in research libraries in the United Kingdom
• Struggles for Freedom: Southern Africa : focusing on the complex and varied liberation struggles in the region, with an emphasis on Botswana, Mozambique, Namibia, South Africa, and Zimbabwe
• World Heritage Sites: Africa : links visual, contextual, and spatial documentation of African heritage sites

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UCL now has access to additional Gale Primary Source databases.

The new collections are:

• Archives of Sexuality & Gender Part VI: Community and Identity in North America
• Environmental History: Conservation and Public Policy in America, 1870–1980 and Colonial Policy and Global Development, 1896-1992
• History of Disabilities: Disabilities in Society, Seventeenth to Twentieth Century
• Indigenous Peoples of North America, Part I and Part II: The Indian Rights Association, 1882-1986
• Mail on Sunday Historical Archive, 1982-2011
• Refugees, Relief, and Resettlement: The Early Cold War and Decolonization and Forced Migration and World War II
• Power to the People: Counterculture, Social Movements, & the Alternative Press, Nineteenth to Twenty-first Century

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UCL now has access to Video Data Bank (VDB) Streaming. Access is for current UCL students and staff only.

VDB Streaming launched in 2024 by Video Data Bank at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago, offering access to a vast collection of video art and experimental moving image work by and about contemporary artists. The VDB’s collection has grown to include the work of more than 600 artists and 6,000 video art titles.

The Video Data Bank is committed to:

• fostering awareness and scholarship of the history and contemporary practice of video and media art
• serving the artists represented in the VDB collection
• providing access to the collection
• ensuring the future of the collection for generations to come.

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UCL now has access to Literary Studies (AM Scholar)

Literary Studies provides literary manuscripts, rare printed works and personal papers of a range of leading literary figures from Britain and America, as well as access to a goldmine of rare and obscure literary texts and genres.

The below authors and literary figures are included in this collection,

• Henry David Thoreau
• Robert Browning
• George Eliot
• Anthony Trollope
• William Thackeray
• Robert Southey and Caroline Bowles
• Elizabeth Gaskell
• The Brontës
• Mary Elizabeth Braddon
• Margaret Oliphant
• Thomas Gray
• Felicia Hemans
• Geraldine Jewsbury
• Mary Tighe
• Lady Sydney Morgan
• Elizabeth Inchbald
• Gothic writers such as Matthew “Monk” Lewis, Ann Radcliffe, Caroline Lamb
• Popular female fiction writers of the 19th century, including Matilda Betham-Edwards, Florence Marryat, Helen Mathers, Charlotte Riddell, Dora Russell, Adeline Sergeant and Emma Jane Worboise

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UCL staff and students can now access the European Pharmacopoeia Online. Please contact the e-resources team to request access.

The European Pharmacopoeia is the primary source of official quality standards for medicines and their ingredients in Europe. The standards provide a scientific basis for the quality control of a product throughout its life cycle, supporting the pharmaceutical industry and healthcare systems.

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