UCL now has access to JET Magazine Archive and Atla – Perspectives on Ancient Civilizations, 1200-1922 .

JET Magazine Archive covers the civil rights movement, politics, education, and other social topics with an African American focus. It includes over 3,000 issues providing a broad view of news, culture, and entertainment from its first issue in 1951 until 2014.

Atla – Perspectives on Ancient Civilizations, 1200-1922 features nearly 900 monographs related to ancient civilizations and cultures from to the Biblical and Classical periods, including Assyrian, Babylonian, Sumerian, Egyptian, Hittite, Greek, and others. The collection covers cultures that existed alongside the Hebrew people who had a strong influence on the formation of the Hebrew scriptures. It includes significant holdings concerning the Akkadian, Syriac, Sumerian, and Egyptian languages and subject areas such as literature, mythology, inscriptions, religion, philosophy, and law.

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UCL now has access to ProQuest Black Studies

Bringing together ProQuest’s Black Studies content, this collection combines primary and secondary sources, including leading historical Black newspapers, archival documents and collections, key government materials, videos, writings by major Black intellectuals and leaders, scholarly journals, and essays by top scholars in Black Studies

Content featured:

• Schomburg Studies on the Black Experience and Black Studies Periodicals, over 120 archival collections and 160 full text periodicals
• Black Historical Newspapers: Atlanta Daily World (1931–2010); Baltimore Afro-American (1893–2010); Chicago Defender (1910–2010); Cleveland Call and Post (1934–2010); Los Angeles Sentinel (1934–2010); Michigan Chronicle (1936–2010); New York Amsterdam News (1922–2010); Norfolk Journal and Guide (1916–2010); Philadelphia Tribune (1912–2010); Pittsburgh Courier (1911–2010)
• NAACP Papers and Civil Rights Organizational Papers
• Black Abolitionist Papers

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UCL now has access to Policy Commons’ subscriber content.

This includes access to more than 24 million pages of curated, high quality policy reports, briefs, analyses, working papers, and datasets from thousands of policy organisations including IGOs, NGOs and think tanks.

Please view this short video introducing the platform and features.

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UCL now has access to an increased selection of ProQuest and Alexander Street databases

New ProQuest databases:

• Early European Books Collections 20 & 21
• Colonial Legacies: Empire and Commonwealth Periodicals
• Entertainment Industry Magazine Archive Collection 5: Video Gaming 
• Gerritsen Women’s History Collection of Aletta H. Jacobs
• Historical Newspapers: Baltimore Afro-American
• Historical Newspapers: Call Post Cleveland Call & Post Subscription
• Historical Newspapers: Chinese Newspaper Collection
• Historical Newspapers: Los Angeles Sentinel
• Historical Newspapers: New York Amsterdam News
• Historical Newspapers: Norfolk Journal and Guide
• LGBT Magazine Archive Collection 2
• Women’s Wear Daily Archive
• Youth and Popular Culture Magazine Archive

Alexander Street databases:

• Engineering Case Studies Online
• Gilded Age
• Psychological Experiments Online
• Women and Social Movements: Development and the Global South, 1919-2019

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UCL now has access to BFI Player. UCL has access to 100s of exceptional films handpicked by the BFI and available to watch anytime. Stream new, cult and classic films – instant access to exceptional movies hand-picked for you by people with a passion for cinema.

 To set up access to your BFI Player subscription follow these steps: 

• Go to https://player.bfi.org.uk/academic/subscribe and create an account OR sign in if you already have one by selecting ‘Already have an account? Sign in’
• Select University College London from the dropdown list
• Login using your UCL username and password

Make sure you tick the box ‘I’d like to receive the BFI Player newsletter’ for exclusive competitions, watchlists and other BFI opportunities via email. 

Please note:

• Once you’ve set up your subscription, you can login on BFI Player for the remainder of this academic year. You don’t need to use the subscribe link
• BFI Player is unavailable outside the UK
• To be used by UCL students and staff for academic purposes only
• Rentals and festival events are not included in the subscription offer

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UCL now has access to the Royal College of Physicians Digital Archive: Part I: 1101-1862, History of Medicine from Folklore to Modern Public Health Policy from Wiley Digital Archives

The Royal College of Physicians Digital Archive: Part I: 1101-1862 covers the history of medicine, medical humanities, medicine and culture, religion, and government, the establishment of public health systems, and the policies governing medical education and practice, with content spanning from the twelfth to the nineteenth century. It contains monographs, rare books, manuscripts, correspondence, reports, conference papers, medical reports, medical education textbooks, proceedings, lectures, anatomical drawings, public health surveys, photographs, drawings, data and ephemera.

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UCL students and staff now have access to Hedge Fund data within Preqin

Preqin tracks the largest organisations that invest in Hedge Funds and their Assets under Management figures, Investment vehicle launches from different geographies globally, plus Investor Allocations.

The Hedge Fund data includes:

• Investor coverage : 7,227
• Fund coverage: 47,509
• Active firm coverage: 9,236
• Performance coverage: 33, 553
• Fundraising coverage: 28,065

With this data users can track key metrics such as Monthly Performance of some funds, and also generate benchmarks which can be customised

For more information please see the guide within Preqin, accessible via the ‘Help’ drop down,

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UCL students and staff now have access to Orbis, Orbis M&A and BankFocus from Bureau van Dijk / Moody’s

Orbis: Bureau van Dijk ’s global database with information on over 450 million public and private companies including, banks, vessels, insurance, and industrial companies covering 220+ countries. This product includes all the data which was previously in Amadeus and Osiris. These two products will be retiring in the new year.

Orbis M&A: Bureau van Dijk’s solution for searching and analyzing intelligence on global mergers and acquisitions, containing M&A, IPO, private equity, and venture capital deals and rumours

BankFocus: Covering global information on over 47,000+ of the world’s public and private banks

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