UCL now has access to IntelliNews Pro.

IntelliNews Pro delivers market news and reports, in English, for over 15 countries in Central and Eastern Europe and regionally for the Middle East/North Africa, Nigeria/Ivory Coast, Sub Saharan Africa, and Asia.

The service includes:

Daily reports: two page summaries combining news, analysis, comments and forecasts, focusing on macroeconomics and country specific politics, as well as major financial and corporate news for any given county.

Weekly reports: Ideal for staying informed about a country’s politics and economy without following events on a day-to-day basis.

Monthly country reports: present an overall picture of the economy with an emphasis on macroeconomic analysis. Highly analytical, the reports also have large statistical sections covering major macroeconomic indicators.

Sector reports: cover sectors of special interest to foreign investors and of great importance to the local economy such as telecoms, energy, construction, tourism, transportation.

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UCL now has access to the Index of Christian Art

The Index of Christian Art is a thematic and iconographic index of early Christian and medieval art objects. The database is based on the Index of Christian Art begun at Princeton University in 1917, and contains approximately thirty percent of the paper files developed up to 1991 as well as all works electronically indexed since then. Further details on the database can be found here

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UCL has now purchased access to Chicano Database

Produced by the Ethnic Studies Library at the University of California, Berkeley Chicano Database is an bibliographic index covering a wide range of materials focused on the Mexican-American and Chicano experience, as well as the broader Latino experience of Puerto Ricans, Cuban Americans and Central American immigrants from 1992 onwards.

Featuring upwards of 70,000 records, the Chicano Database pulls content from more than 2,400 journals and other resources, including newspapers, books, book chapters and more. Extensive coverage dates back to the 1960’s, with selective indexing dating back to the early 1900’s. Updated on a quarterly basis, the Chicano Database offers uniform subject access to a continuously growing body of literature.

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UCL has now purchased access to Oxford Constitutions of the World

Oxford Constitutions of the World includes the most up-to-date constitution for every jurisdiction across the world including national, sub-national, and state constitutions, as well as those of special sovereignties and recognized autonomous regions.

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UCL has now purchased access to Investment Arbitration Reporter.

Investment Arbitration Reporter is a news and analysis service focusing on the international law that applies to foreign investment, particularly the international treaties and arbitration claims that arise in this context. It offers detailed and nuanced coverage, with a particular focus on investigation of unreported cases and comprehensive review and discussion of legal documents and important policy developments.

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UCL staff and students can now access Aerial Digimap. Users must register on first use and agree to the licence conditions. Aerial Digimap provides online access to detailed aerial imagery from Getmapping, with two options for working with the data. You can either use Aerial Roam to produce maps on screen and in various print formats or you can download the data for use in GIS/CAD through Aerial Download.

Aerial Roam

Aerial Roam allows you to view, zoom, pan, annotate and print maps containing Aerial Imagery data.

There is a guide to using Aerial Roam.

Aerial Download

Digimap’s Aerial Download interface allows you to download tiles of aerial imagery data for use in GIS/CAD software.

For detailed information on downloading data see the How to Use Aerial Download page.

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UCL staff and students now have access to over 26,000 films via Kanopy, an online video streaming resource. Kanopy‘s collection includes thousands of award-winning documentaries, training films and theatrical releases which can be streamed from any location on various devices.

The collection includes a number of leading producers, such as the Criterion Collection, PBS, Kino Lorber, New Day Films, The Great Courses, California Newsreel, BBC and hundreds more.

Features include: sharing films, creating clips or teaching playlists, and the capacity to embed these into the course system.

We are working to get the records loaded as soon as possible so that you can find these films via Explore but in the meantime, you can go directly to Kanopy.

This is one of a series of projects that UCL Library Services is running to directly involve users in the acquisition of content, UCL has deposited funds with Kanopy allowing for licences to the popular titles to be purchased whilst all other films can also be viewed.

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Following a successful trial, UCL now has subscriptions to Amirsys Anatomy Reference Center and Amirsys Imaging Reference Center via Ovid.

Amirsys Anatomy Reference Center offers an image-rich source of gross anatomy and imaging anatomy information and insight. Featuring a combination of high-quality images and evidence-based diagnoses spanning a wide range of topics. Contents include:

• more than 10,000 images such as illustrations, cadaver photos
• radiology images and histology images
• comprehensive anatomy topics spanning regional, systemic and imaging anatomy perspectives
• significant histology and embryology coverage

Amirsys Imaging Reference Center offers a comprehensive source of radiology references with a combination of high-quality images, classical diagnoses, and evidence-based clinical content. Contents include:

• 72,000 x-ray, CT, MR, and ultrasound illustrations and images
• expert, evidence-based content – including over 4,000 diagnoses provided by imaging experts
• over 40,000 journal references

UCL now has access to 14 of the subject areas covered by Oxford Bibliographies Online.

The aim of Oxford Bibliographies Online is to offer authoritative guides to the best available scholarship on a variety of academic topics. Written and reviewed by academic experts and updated to evolve with current scholarship, the guides combine high-level overviews with commentary, annotations and citations.

The existing access to Atlantic History, Latin American Studies and Linguistics has been expanded to include the following subjects:

American Literature
Anthropology
Art History
Biblical Studies
British and Irish Literature
Classics
International Relations
Islamic Studies
Medieval Studies
Political Science
Victorian Literature

UCL has purchased access to Mass Observation Online and Slavery, Abolition & Social Justice from Adam Matthew Digital

Mass Observation Online : offering access to archives for the study of Social History in the modern era. Explore original manuscript and typescript papers created and collected by the Mass Observation organisation, as well as printed publications, photographs and interactive features. The archive was developed to create an ‘anthropology of ourselves’ and study the everyday lives of ordinary people in Britain.

Slavery, Abolition & Social Justice : bringing together primary source documents from archives and libraries across the Atlantic world, this resource includes unique material relating to the complex subjects of slavery, abolition and social justice.