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New resources

By Lesley A Rogers, on 28 February 2012

UCL Library Services now subscribes to the following resources:

Dissertations & Theses Full Text
FBIS Daily Reports, 1941-1974
OxResearch

Expert Reviews journals collection

Nature journals collection (complete), including all Nature, Nature Reviews and “academic and society” titles

OUP journals collection (complete)

Health Psychology Review
Journal of Heart and Lung Transplantation
Journal of Hospital Medicine
Journal of Midwifery and Women’s Health
Journal of Separation Science
Journal of Visualized Experiments
Seminars in Radiation Oncology
Seminars in Hematology

All of these titles are accessible either via the ejournals list or the databases list

Statewatch and SEMDOC

By Lesley A Rogers, on 31 August 2010

UCL now has access to Statewatch online (the bulletin and searchable database) and SEMDOC; these can both be accessed via the databases list.

Statewatch
Bulletin, news and analysis on the activities of European states in the area of civil liberties. The Statewatch Database is a fully searchable database of all the material from the Statewatch bulletin and Statewatch news online since 1991.

SEMDOC
Information and documentation from Statewatch on EU Justice and Home Affairs policy, decision-making and legislation.

Statewatch is a non-profit-making voluntary group founded in 1991. Comprising lawyers, academics, journalists, researchers and community activists, its European network of contributors is drawn from 18 countries. Statewatch encourages the publication of investigative journalism and critical research in Europe the fields of the state, justice and home affairs, civil liberties, accountability and openness.

BMJ Best Practice

By Catherine Sharp, on 27 August 2010

Following a successful trial, UCL now has access to BMJ Best Practice.

Best Practice combines the latest research evidence, guidelines and expert opinion in healthcare, taking a patient-focused approach that covers prevention, diagnosis, treatment and prognosis

Early European Books

By Catherine Sharp, on 27 August 2010

UCL now has access to the first collection of Early European Books.

Early European Books offers full-colour, high-resolution facsimile scanned images of pre-1701 printed European books.  The first collection includes all of the Danish Royal Library’s Danish and Icelandic imprints produced in the fifteenth and sixteenth centuries, from Breviarium Ottoniense (Odense Breviary) and Guillaume Caoursin’s De obsidione et bello Rhodiano (“On the siege and war of Rhodes”), both printed by in 1482, through to works by the astronomer and alchemist Tycho Brahe (1546–1601).

Oxford Reference Online

By Catherine Sharp, on 10 May 2010

UCL now has access to Oxford Reference Online, which can be accessed via the databases list.

Oxford Reference Online includes a wide range of cross-searchable dictionary, language reference, and subject reference works published by Oxford University Press, with 1 million entries across 25 subject areas. Below are some examples of titles that are included.

  • Dictionary of Accounting
  • Dictionary of British Place Names
  • Dictionary of Chemistry
  • Dictionary of the Social Sciences
  • New Oxford Companion to Law
  • Oxford Classical Dictionary
  • Oxford Companion to Archaeology
  • Oxford Companion to Medicine
  • Oxford Companion to Military History
  • Oxford Dictionary of Art
  • Oxford Dictionary of Quotations
  • Oxford Encyclopedia of British Literature
  • World Maps

Reaxys

By Catherine Sharp, on 3 September 2009

UCL now has access to Reaxys.

Reaxys is a web-based search and retrieval system for chemical compounds, bibliographic data and chemical reactions.

Reaxys searches the content of the three CrossFire databases, Beilstein, Gmelin and Patent Chemistry Database, producing a single results set.  Each record provides details excerpted from multiple patent or journal sources.  Reaxys contains a repository of experimentally validated data, including structures, reactions (including multi-step reactions) and physical properties.

Reaxys training

You might need to download certain Java applications to use Reaxys.  If you have a question about this, or need any other support with using Reaxys, contact the subject librarian for Chemistry, Lynne Meehan, on 020 7679 2634 or email l.meehan@ucl.ac.uk

Theatre in Video

By Catherine Sharp, on 20 August 2009

UCL now has access to Theatre in Video, including the BBC Shakespeare Series of performances.

Theatre in Video contains more than 250 of the world’s most important plays, together with more than 100 video documentaries, online in streaming video:  more than 500 hours in all.

New Pauly Online

By Lesley A Rogers, on 29 July 2009

UCL now has access to New Pauly Online.

Brill’s New Pauly is a reference work for students and scholars of the ancient world. It covers Graeco-Roman antiquity and its aftermath, including the history of classical scholarship. It will be automatically updated whenever a new volume is published.

Access to an online version of the original complete Der Neue Pauly is also included.

British Periodicals Online

By Catherine Sharp, on 9 February 2009

Image of British Periodicals logoUCL now has access to British Periodicals Online.  This resource traces the development and growth of the periodical press in Britain from its origins in the seventeenth century through to the Victorian “age of periodicals” and beyond. 

Among the contributors, editors and founders of these periodicals are a host of important figures: Walter Bagehot, Aubrey Beardsley, Annie Besant, William Cobbett, Daniel Defoe, Charles Dickens, George Eliot, Henry Fielding, Oliver Goldsmith, Jerome K. Jerome, Samuel Johnson, Tobias Smollett and many more.

All the titles in British Periodicals appear individually in UCL’s ejournals list.

17th-18th Century Burney Collection Newspapers

By Catherine Sharp, on 9 February 2009

Image: Slavery & AbolitionUCL now has access to 17th-18th Century Burney Collection Newspapers.

The newspapers, pamphlets, and books gathered by the Reverend Charles Burney (1757-1817) represent the largest and most comprehensive collection of early English news media. The digital collection comprises almost 1 million pages and contains approximately 1,270 titles, including newspapers, pamphlets and broadsides.