UCL users now have access to BBC Monitoring: Summary of World Broadcasts, Essential Global Media, 1939-2001 from Readex.

BBC Monitoring was founded in 1939 at the start of WWII. Its purpose was to listen to radio broadcasts and gather open-source intelligence to help Britain and its allies understand global dynamics and assess emerging global threats. Over the next 60 years, the scope of its monitoring grew quickly. Trained specialists transcribed broadcasts of speeches, current affairs, political discussions, and social and cultural events worldwide. Transcripts, in turn, were translated into English, then read by experts who carefully selected critical content for publication. Finally, selections were summarized and curated into daily reports that comprise the Summary of World Broadcasts. These original daily reports often included commentary and evaluation by subject matter experts, as well as synopses and specialist briefings.

UCL’s trial access covers the full collection, series 1-4, 1939 to 2001.

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UCL users now have access to the following ProQuest and Alexander Street databases:

• British and Irish Women’s Letters and Diaries : includes the immediate experiences of approximately 500 women, as revealed in over 100,000 pages of diaries and letters spanning more than 300 years
• Communist Historical Newspaper Collection : ProQuest Historical Newspapers : archival access to the 9 publications of the Communist Party USA, 1919-2013
• Early European Book collections 22-25 : updates our existing access, we now have collections 1-25
• DNSA – collections 38-64 : updates our existing access, we now have collections 1-64
• Ethnicity & Culture Magazine Archive : backfiles of more than thirty 20^th-21^st century magazines from communities including African American, Latinx, Asian, and indigenous, as well as publications reflecting the European immigration to the US from the 19th century onwards

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UCL users now have access to Mass Incarceration and Prison Studies from Alexander Street.

Mass Incarceration and Prison Studies provides users with the resources to investigate both crucial global trends in mass incarceration, and the detailed prison infrastructure of specific countries. Organised around a selection of key historical and contemporary events and themes this collection brings together archival and reference materials, court cases, first-hand accounts, videos, Supreme Court audio files, research on rehabilitation, training materials and artistic works.

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UCL users now have access to FactSet Revere Relationship data within WRDS (Wharton Research Data Services)

This data is for UCL students and staff only. Access is via a WRDS account: to register, complete the Account Request form and create a username and password. You will then have to wait for a confirmation access email (this can take a few days).

FactSet Revere Relationship data provides a detailed mapping of business relationships and interconnections among companies, including key customers, suppliers, competitors, and strategic partners.

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UCL has extended our access to Policy Commons to include the full suite of modules.

Policy Commons is a discovery, access and preservation service for informally published policy content from IGOs, NGOs and think tanks. The full suite of modules consists of:

• Global Think Tanks : The largest database for public policy, covering reports, working papers, policy briefs, data sources, and media drawn from a directory of IGOs, NGOs, and research centers. Please note that UCL users already had subscribed access to this module
• Public Health and Social Care : Bringing together research, pilot projects, real-world evaluations, newsletters, and collaborative projects from frontline health providers, hospital systems, foundations, patient groups, practitioner communities, governments, think tanks, and other organizations produce
• World Cities and Local Governments
• World Governments : Millions of essential research documents from more than 150 governments around the world, enriched and integrated on a single platform

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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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