UCL user now have access to ZEDHIA

ZEDHIA features digitalized full text about the history of Central Europe’s business, economy and genealogy. The 28,543 volumes and 1.3 million pages of the publications comprised in ZEDHIA cover the history of Austrian business from 1789 until 2003.

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UCL users now have access to LatinNews Daily, this is in addition to our existing access to LatinNews content including Latin American Weekly Report

LatinNews Daily provides expert analysis of the main political and economic developments within Latin America and the Caribbean over the past 24 hours. Each LatinNews Daily provides:

• A brief outline of main developments
• An assessment of the significance of each development
• Additional ‘key points’, for those who require more detailed analysis
• A ‘Looking Ahead’ final paragraph for each development that highlights where these developments might be leading

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UCL now has access to Early American Newspapers: Early Colonial to Articles of Confederation Era, 1690-1789 (Readex)

The newspapers in Early Colonial to Articles of Confederation Era, 1690-1789 can be searched by choosing “Select All” in the search interface, individual newspapers can also be found in “Browse Publications”.

Early American Newspapers: Early Colonial to Articles of Confederation Era, 1690-1789 features titles from every region of the U.S. to provide a record of people, issues and events from the time period such as: Salem witchcraft, Slavery institutionalized, First Great Awakening, Pontiac’s Rebellion, Royal Proclamation of 1763, Stamp Act Crisis, Boston Massacre, Boston Tea Party, First Continental Congress, Battle of Lexington and Concord, Declaration of Independence, Rise of Republicanism, Treaty of Paris, Shays’ Rebellion, U.S. Constitutional Convention, Rise of Republican Motherhood.

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UCL users have access to the IEA Statistics Package (ISP) which covers the IEA data previously accessible via OECD iLibrary.

Please navigate to IEA Statistics Package (ISP) and select Access on WDS. This package comprises of:

• World Energy Statistics
• World Energy Balances
• Coal Information
• Electricity Information
• Natural Gas Information
• Oil Information
• Renewables Information
• Greenhouse Gas Emissions from Energy
• Energy End-uses and Efficiency Indicators
• Energy Prices, including OECD Energy Prices and Taxes – Quarterly, World Energy Prices, Monthly Prices
• Energy Technology RD&D Budgets
• Projections: Energy policies of OECD countries
• Energy Projections of IEA Countries – with Extended Transitions Indicators
• IEA Energy and Carbon Tracker

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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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