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New East View resources

By Sarah Gilmore, on 27 July 2023

UCL now has access to additional East View resources. These are:

Newspaper archives:

Magazine / journal archives:

Ukrainian ephemera:

E-book collections:

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UCL now has access to Joint Publications Research Service (JPRS) Reports, 1957-1995

By Sarah Gilmore, on 27 July 2023

UCL now has access to Joint Publications Research Service (JPRS) Reports, 1957-1995

Joint Publications Research Service (JPRS) Reports, 1957-1995: This archive of publications produced by the Joint Publications Research Service (JPRS), a unit operating within the United States CIA, features English translations of foreign-language monographs, reports, serials, journal and newspaper articles, and radio and television broadcasts from regions throughout the world. With an emphasis on communist and developing countries.

From the height of the Cold War to the dawn of the Internet and the dissolution of the Soviet Union, JPRS reports document the changes on the ground during that tumultuous time. JPRS was established in March 1957 as part of the United States Department of Commerce’s Office of Technical Services, about six months before the Soviet Union launched Sputnik 1. JPRS staffers prepared translations for use by U.S. government officials, various agencies, and the research and industrial communities.

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UCL now has access to American History, 1493-1945 and Gender: Identity and Social Change from Adam Matthew

By Sarah Gilmore, on 22 June 2023

UCL now has access to American History, 1493-1945 and Gender: Identity and Social Change from Adam Matthew.

American History, 1493-1945 : Documenting American History from the earliest settlers to the mid-twentieth century, this collection is sourced from the Gilder Lehrman Collection. Access is to both: Module I Settlement, Commerce, Revolution and Reform: 1493-1859 and Module II Civil War, Reconstruction and the Modern Era: 1860-1945

Gender: Identity and Social Change : Documenting the changing representations and lived experiences of gender roles and relations from the nineteenth century to the present. This collection offers sources for the study of women’s suffrage, the feminist movement, the men’s movement, employment, education, the body, the family, and government and politics.

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UCL now has access to UN Comtrade (United Nations Commodity Trade Statistics Database)

By Sarah Gilmore, on 22 June 2023

UCL now has access to UN Comtrade . On first use select ‘Login’ then ‘Sign up now’ with your @ucl.ac.uk email address. UCL users should see My Comtrade Premium when registered.

UN Comtrade (United Nations Commodity Trade Statistics Database) is a comprehensive global trade data platform which aggregates detailed global annual and monthly trade statistics by product and trading partner. It is considered the most comprehensive trade database available with more than 1 billion records.
UN Comtrade contains detailed imports and exports statistics reported by statistical authorities of approx 200 countries or areas. It concerns annual trade data from 1962 to the most recent year.  The database is continuously updated as whenever trade data are received from the national authorities, they are standardized by the UN Statistics Division and then added to UN Comtrade. 

To request the API subscription key, please follow this guide https://unstats.un.org/wiki/display/comtrade/New+Comtrade+User+Guide#NewComtradeUserGuide-UNComtradeAPIManagement

The user guide can be found here: https://unstats.un.org/wiki/display/comtrade/New+Comtrade+User+Guide

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UCL now has access to SDC Platinum within Refinitiv Workspace

By Sarah Gilmore, on 22 June 2023

UCL now has access to SDC Platinum, as an add-on within Refinitiv Workspace. To access SDC within Refinitiv Workspace, simply type SDC in the top search bar. To request access please complete the Contact the e-resources team form and a licence will be assigned to you.

SDC Platinum is a reference database for the deal-making community, offering 25+ years of comprehensive data with deals information on everything from M&A to private equity to project finance and providing a flexible screening tool for creating complex searches, reports and analysis. Featuring over four million transactions available with 50 years of historical point-in-time data across major investment banking content sets SDC Platinum allows users to monitor deal flow, identify market trends and gain insight into competitive positioning within any region, asset class or industry at highly flexible levels of granularity

Content and coverage:

  • Private Equity: Investments: 395,000; Exits: 46,500, Fundraising: 42,500
  • Project Finance: 52,000+
  • Public Finance (Munis): 660,000+
  • Repurchases: 43,000+
  • Joint Ventures and Strategic Alliances: 205,00+
  • Poison Pills: 1983 to present, with 12,500+ poison pill adoptions
  • Proxy Fights: 1987 to present, with 6,000+ campaigns
  • M&A: 1.3 million+ deals globally; 350,000+ US M&A deals; 950,000+ non US M&A deals
  • Equity: 410,000+ Equity deals
  • Bonds: 1.09 million deals
  • Loans: 388,000 deals

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UCL now has access to the Wilson Retrospective Subject Indexes (EBSCO)

By Sarah Gilmore, on 15 June 2023

UCL now has access to the Wilson Retrospective Subject Indexes from EBSCO. These new archival indexes are:

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UCL now has access to PolicyMap

By Sarah Gilmore, on 15 June 2023

UCL now has access to PolicyMap

PolicyMap offers easy-to-use online mapping with data on demographics, real estate, health, jobs and more in communities across the US.

Benefits:

  • Use maps to understand data: on a map, you can see what life is like in a neighborhood, with data at the neighborhood or zip code-level
  • Unlock the web’s largest geographic data warehouse: access +50,000 indicators from hundreds of sources through a single product.
  • Start mapping instantly: make maps and gain insights in minutes, no specialized GIS knowledge or training needed.

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UCL now has access to Time Magazine Archive

By Sarah Gilmore, on 15 June 2023

UCL now has access to Time Magazine Archive

The Time Magazine Archive presents a collection of the weekly news magazine dating back to its first issue in March 1923 until December 2000, presented in a comprehensive cover-to-cover format.

Intended to be read in under an hour, each issue of Time contains reports of national and international current events, politics, sports, and entertainment. Capturing the relevant news for a given week.

Subjects Covered:

  • National and international news
  • Current events
  • Politics
  • Sports
  • Celebrity lifestyle

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UCL now has access to Children’s leisure activities in Russia online, Slavonic Bibles Online and World of Children – Artek Pioneer Camp Archives, 1944-1967 from Brill

By Sarah Gilmore, on 8 June 2023

UCL now has access to:

  • Children’s leisure activities in Russia online : focusing on the movement for ‘socialisation through play’ and ‘rational leisure’ this collection gives an overview of the different trends in children leisure activities and games from 1917 to the late 1930s
  • Slavonic Bibles Online : a collection of the earliest of the Slavonic early printed books of the Moscow University Library, consisting of 40 Slavonic bibles and Cyrillic religious books printed in the 15th and 16th centuries, including editions of the Gospels, New Testaments, Acts and Epistles, and Psalms
  • World of Children – Artek Pioneer Camp Archives, 1944-1967 : collection containing government documents on Soviet social and health policies, administrative, medical and financial records, transcripts of meetings, materials on educational and ideological work carried out in the camp statistical reports, food rations and provision standards, letters from Soviet and foreign children, diaries etc

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UCL now has access to The Royal Anthropological Institute of Great Britain and Ireland Archive and The New York Academy of Sciences Archive (Wiley Digital Archives)

By Sarah Gilmore, on 8 June 2023

UCL now has access to The Royal Anthropological Institute of Great Britain and Ireland Archive and The New York Academy of Sciences Archive (Wiley Digital Archives)

The Royal Anthropological Institute of Great Britain and Ireland Archive: contains nearly one million pieces of unique content, including research data, papers, fieldwork, drawings and photographs, and a wealth of previously uncatalogued material. The archive includes a 150,000-image library of ethnographic photographs dating back to the 1860s. Those images were captured by anthropologists, ethnologists and ethnographic photographers, and include historic prints, lantern slides, drawings and paintings, illustrating diverse world cultures.

The New York Academy of Sciences Archive: encapsulates the history and development of natural science, technology and modern biomedical sciences, and documents anti-intellectualist sentiments towards scientists.

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