UCL now has access to Sovetskaia Kul’tura Digital Archive and Social Movements, Elections, Ephemera. 

Sovetskaia Kul’tura Digital Archive – Kul’tura (Culture) is an important Russian weekly newspaper. An indispensable source of information on the developing and ever changing attitudes towards arts and culture in the Soviet and Russian societies.

 Social Movements, Elections, Ephemera – This series offers a comprehensive collection of election related material to date from the countries of the former Soviet Union. Includes party programs, propaganda material, collections of special editions of newspapers and literature produced by political parties or candidates. The collection covers:

•  Belarus Presidential Election, 2010
•  Russia Presidential Election 2012
• Russia State Duma Election, 2011
• South Ossetia Presidential Election, 2012
• Ukraine Parliamentary Election, 2012

If you have any questions about using the database, please contact your subject librarian.

UCL now has access to the Cold War Intelligence.

Cold War Intelligence is a collection of 2,360 formerly classified U.S. government documents (most classified Top Secret or higher). It provides a declassified documentary record of the successes and failures of the U.S. intelligence community in its efforts to spy on the Soviet Union during the Cold War.

If you have any questions about using the database, please contact your subject librarian.

UCL now has access to the Cambridge Edition of the Works of Ben Jonson Online.

The Cambridge Edition of the Works of Ben Jonson Online presents a complete reappraisal of this major Renaissance writer, complementing and extending the seven-volume print edition of Jonson’s works published in 2012.

If you have any questions about using the database, please contact your subject librarian.

UCL now has access to the following Electronic Resources:

Early European Books Online, Collection 5

Economist Historical Archive

Financial Times Historical Archive

The Making of the Modern World

Victorian Popular Culture

The Wellesley Index

If you have any questions about using the database, please contact your subject librarian.

UCL now has access to The Vogue Archive, the complete searchable archive of American Vogue from the first issue in 1892 to the current month. 

The Vogue Archive preserves the work of the world’s greatest fashion designers, stylists and photographers and is a unique record of American and international fashion, culture and society from the dawn of the modern era to the present day.

If you have any questions about using the database, please contact your subject librarian.

UCL now has access to The Merck Index Online, the electronic version of the authoritative source of information on chemicals, drugs and biologicals.

The Merck Index Online is an easily-searchable, full-text database containing substance monographs, over 500 organic named reactions and reference tables. All the content from the print edition of The Merck Index is included, plus historic monographs only available online. The Merck Index Online will be updated regularly.

A quick search option allows you to search the database by name, CAS registry number, molecular formula or molecular weight or you can use the main search page to construct a multi-field search across a large variety of data types including various compound properties. Alternatively, you can search by chemical structure using the structure search.

If you have any questions about using the database, please contact your subject librarian.

UCL now has access to a number of new databases and ejournals.  Please see the databases or ejournals list, as appropriate, for links and further information.

BIOSIS Previews Backfiles (1926-1968)
Cambridge Histories Online
Cecil Papers
Colonial State Papers
Compendex backfiles (1884-1969)
Congressional Research Digital Collection
Cult of the Body
Digital National Security Archive
Documents on British Policy Overseas
Ethnographic Video Online
Global health archive
IEEE Wiley ebooks
Illustrated London News (see ejournals list)
Imperial Russia’s Illustrated Press
Mass Media in Russia
Nature Archive 1869-1949 (see ejournals list)
Neurology backfile (see ejournals list)
Popular Literature, Fiction and Songs in Imperial Russia
Russian Anarchist Periodicals of the 20th Century
Russian Theatre in the Early Twentieth Century
Scientific American Archive + Supplement (see ejournals list)
Social Theory
Springer backfiles (we now have all collections; see ejournals list)
Springer Protocols
Taylor and Francis backfiles (3 collections – Arts & Humanities, Behavioral Science, and Politics, International Relations & Area Studies) (see ejournals list)
Web of Knowledge Science Citation Index (1900-1944)
Yearbook of the Imperial Theatre (1890-1915)

UCL now has access to the following resources which can be accessed via the databases list:

Safari Technical Books

Safari Books Online is the premier on-demand digital library providing over 19151 technology, digital media, and business books and videos online to academic and library users.

Science of Synthesis

Science of Synthesis is a reference work for preparative methods in synthetic chemistry. Its product-based classification system enables chemists to easily find a solution to their synthetic problems.

Early European Books:

Collection 2 which contains early printed volumes from the Biblioteca Nazionale Centrale di Firenze  (National Central Library of Florence). The selection of works focuses on four collections of particular historic and bibliographic importance within the library’s holdings from this period:

1.The Nencini Aldine Collection
2.Marginalia.
3.Incunabula
4.Sacred Representations 

Collection 3 is substantially larger than the previous collections, containing 3 million pages in total, from volumes scanned at four different libraries, encompassing works in all major European languages:

Biblioteca Nazionale Centrale di Firenze (National Central Library of Florence, Italy)
Koninklijke Bibliotheek (National Library of the Netherlands)
The Wellcome Library, London
Det Kongelige Bibliotek (Royal Library, Copenhagen)

UCL now has access to SPIE Digital Library, which can be accessed via the databases list.

The SPIE Digital Library is the most extensive resource available on optics and photonics, providing unprecedented access to more than 200,000 technical papers from SPIE Journals and Conference Proceedings from 1990 to the present. More than 17,000 new technical papers are added annually.

UCL students and staff now have access to the  JSTOR Arts and Sciences X collection.

We also have access to Autophagy, a peer-reviewed journal with an international audience including original research, reviews, technical papers and articles on many aspects of autophagy.

The titles contained in this new JSTOR collection, and Autophagy are available using the ejournals list.