UCL now has access to additional Gale Primary Source databases.

The new collections are:

• Archives of Sexuality & Gender Part VI: Community and Identity in North America
• Environmental History: Conservation and Public Policy in America, 1870–1980 and Colonial Policy and Global Development, 1896-1992
• History of Disabilities: Disabilities in Society, Seventeenth to Twentieth Century
• Indigenous Peoples of North America, Part I and Part II: The Indian Rights Association, 1882-1986
• Mail on Sunday Historical Archive, 1982-2011
• Refugees, Relief, and Resettlement: The Early Cold War and Decolonization and Forced Migration and World War II
• Power to the People: Counterculture, Social Movements, & the Alternative Press, Nineteenth to Twenty-first Century

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UCL now has access to Video Data Bank (VDB) Streaming. Access is for current UCL students and staff only.

VDB Streaming launched in 2024 by Video Data Bank at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago, offering access to a vast collection of video art and experimental moving image work by and about contemporary artists. The VDB’s collection has grown to include the work of more than 600 artists and 6,000 video art titles.

The Video Data Bank is committed to:

• fostering awareness and scholarship of the history and contemporary practice of video and media art
• serving the artists represented in the VDB collection
• providing access to the collection
• ensuring the future of the collection for generations to come.

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UCL now has access to Literary Studies (AM Scholar)

Literary Studies provides literary manuscripts, rare printed works and personal papers of a range of leading literary figures from Britain and America, as well as access to a goldmine of rare and obscure literary texts and genres.

The below authors and literary figures are included in this collection,

• Henry David Thoreau
• Robert Browning
• George Eliot
• Anthony Trollope
• William Thackeray
• Robert Southey and Caroline Bowles
• Elizabeth Gaskell
• The Brontës
• Mary Elizabeth Braddon
• Margaret Oliphant
• Thomas Gray
• Felicia Hemans
• Geraldine Jewsbury
• Mary Tighe
• Lady Sydney Morgan
• Elizabeth Inchbald
• Gothic writers such as Matthew “Monk” Lewis, Ann Radcliffe, Caroline Lamb
• Popular female fiction writers of the 19th century, including Matilda Betham-Edwards, Florence Marryat, Helen Mathers, Charlotte Riddell, Dora Russell, Adeline Sergeant and Emma Jane Worboise

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UCL staff and students can now access the European Pharmacopoeia Online. Please contact the e-resources team to request access.

The European Pharmacopoeia is the primary source of official quality standards for medicines and their ingredients in Europe. The standards provide a scientific basis for the quality control of a product throughout its life cycle, supporting the pharmaceutical industry and healthcare systems.

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UCL now has access to Electronic Enlightenment: Letters & Lives 

With approx 80,000 letters and documents and 10,300 correspondents, EE is a collection of edited correspondence from the early modern period, linking people across Europe, the Americas and Asia from the early 17th to the mid-19th century.

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UCL now has access to the Eastern European LGBTQ Collection from East View

The Eastern European LGBTQ Collection is a collection of ephemera materials documenting LGBTQ movements in several Eastern European countries. With the resurgence of conservative political activism in Eastern Europe, which embraces and emphasizes traditionalist social, sexual, and gender norms, LGBTQ persons and LGBTQ activism are largely rejected and repudiated for undermining national values and social cohesion.

This collection of ephemera, (brochures, clothing items, booklets, flyers, etc.) offers important insights into LGBTQ activism in Eastern Europe and the Balkans in the past decade.

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UCL now has access to Bloomberg.com , Bloomberg’s news content. Access is for UCL students and staff only.

To signin:

• Visit Bloomberg.com 
• Enter your @ucl.ac.uk email address, and click “Continue”.
• Sign in via the UCL Single Sign-On page
• You will be redirected back to Bloomberg.com with full access.

Access includes:

• provides unlimited access to Bloomberg News content
• Unlimited access to Bloomberg.com and the Bloomberg app
• Unlimited streaming of live Bloomberg TV
• Unlimited access to live radio, podcasts and narrated articles
• Subscriber-only content and newsletters

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UCL now has access to an increased selection of ProQuest and Alexander Street databases. Access is initially until April 2025.

New ProQuest databases:

• Children’s Magazine Archive, 1866-2020
• Colonial Legacies: Empire and Commonwealth Periodicals
• Country Life Archive
• Historical Newspapers: Louisville Courier Journal 1830-2000
• Historical Newspapers: Minneapolis Star Tribune 1867-2001
• Historical Newspapers: St. Petersburg/Tampa Bay Times
• History Vault: World War II: U.S. Documents on Planning, Operations, Intelligence, Axis War Crimes, and Refugees
• House of Commons Parliamentary Papers – 21st Century Module 4 (2022-2023)
• Periodicals Index Online
• Trench Journals and Unit Magazines of the First World War

New Alexander Street databases:

• Queer Pasts
• Social Work Online
• Trade and Globalization Studies Online
• Twentieth Century North American Drama, 2nd Edition

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UCL now has access to Alternative Press Index (1991-) & Alternative Press Index Archive (1969-1990) from EBSCO.

Alternative Press Index (API) & Alternative Press Index Archive (APIA) are bibliographic databases of journal, newspaper, and magazine articles from international alternative, radical, and left periodicals. Born of the New Left, the API was launched in 1969 to provide access to the emerging theories and practices of radical social change. API and APIA coverage is both international and interdisciplinary.

Alternative Press Index : Coverage begins in 1991 and features over 300 periodicals. With over 344,000 records, the API is considered the most comprehensive and up-to-date guide to alternative sources of information available.

Alternative Press Index Archive : Coverage is from 1969 to 1990 and features over 700 periodicals. With over 474,000 records the APIA is an invaluable companion to the Alternative Press Index

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UCL now has access to Sovetskii Ekran Digital Archive via East View

The Sovetskii Ekran Digital Archive offers a unique window into the history of Soviet cinema, capturing the essence of a journal that was pivotal from 1925 to 1998. Sovetskii Ekran (Советский экран, Soviet Screen) was more than just a film journal – it was a cultural barometer of its times, chronicling the evolution of Soviet film against the backdrop of significant societal and political changes. Its pages, filled with film critiques, interviews, and reader polls, offer a comprehensive view of the cinematic landscape and its influence on Soviet culture.

Please note: The publication of Sovetskii Ekran was completely suspended from 1931-1938, 1942-1956, and 1999-2001. The lack of content for these periods is not a gap but reflects the journal’s publication schedule during these times.

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