UCL users now have access to JFLIX video streaming platform.

JFLIX is a platform dedicated to award winning films on various topics dealing with Judaism and Israel. From Jewish history through biographies of leaders, along with films about Israeli society and culture. These films discuss questions such as Jewish identity and coping courageously with moral dilemmas.

Films can be browsed within three themes :

• Science & Technology
• Society
• Art & History

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UCL users now have access to Social History Archive : Records, Newspapers and the 1921 Census. Access is restricted to current UCL students and staff only.

This archive features a collection of British and Irish primary source material:

• Records: consisting of 3.5 billion transcribed records, 375 million digitised scans of original records in over 2,800 separate collections, these records cover a broad spectrum of the themes and topics of British history and its colonial expansion into Ireland, India and the wider world.
• Newspapers: the largest collection of historical British & Irish newspapers online and the official source for the British Library’s newspaper holdings. This collection features over 1,850 titles and over 47 million pages dating from 1700 to the 2000s. Access included the Bookseller archive.
• Census: the 1921 Census of England & Wales includes 38 million records covering every person in England and Wales on 19 June 1921. It’s searchable by over 35 fields including keyword, name, address and employer.

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UCL users now have access to Aging in the Modern World and World Events and the Media from Alexander Street

• Aging in the Modern World explores global aging complexities, diverse cultural perspectives, personal narratives, and scholarly insights from 1900 to 2020. This collection features coverage of government approaches, societal attitudes, and key themes, to provide understanding and address the challenges and opportunities associated with an aging population.
• World Events and the Media explores various practices in journalism: from investigative journalism to crisis and war reporting, to the impact of technological advancements on the media. This multimedia resource covers approaches to journalism that draw upon first-hand accounts, memoirs, historical accounts, videos and archival records.

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UCL users 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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