UCL staff and students now have access to Nineteenth Century Collections Online : Asia and the West

Nineteenth Century Collections Online : Asia and the West features a range of primary source collections related to international relations between Asian countries and the West during the nineteenth century. These documents include government reports, diplomatic correspondence, periodicals, newspapers, treaties, trade agreements, NGO papers, and more, offering a look at the inner workings of international relations.

The archive explores in detail the history of British and US foreign policy and diplomacy; Asian political, economic, and social affairs; the Philippine Insurrection; the Opium Wars; the Boxer Rebellion; missionary activity in Asia; and other topics. Asia and the West also includes personal letters and diaries, offering first-hand accounts and the human side of international politics, as well as nautical charts, maps, ledgers, company records, and expedition and survey reports from 1790 to 1949.

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UCL staff and students now have access to Database of Latin Dictionaries (DLD), including Dictionary of Medieval Latin from British Sources (DMLBS).

Because of its broad spectrum of dictionaries, the Database of Latin Dictionaries (DLD) offers an immediate overview of Latin vocabulary that no isolated dictionary can give. In order to cover all possible perspectives on Latin vocabulary, the DLD offers several kinds of dictionaries: defining and translating, thematic, medieval and early modern, including Dictionary of Medieval Latin from British Sources (DMLBS). DMLBS can also be searched as a separate resource.

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UCL staff and students now have access to Anthropology Plus

Anthropology Plus combines the indexing from two essential anthropology databases, Anthropological Index Online published by the Royal Anthropological Institute and Anthropological Literature published by the Peabody Museum of Archaeology and Ethnology at Harvard University.

Anthropology Plus offers worldwide indexing of all core periodical and lesser-known journals from the 18th century to today, covering thousands of sources, including journal articles, reports, commentaries, edited works and obituaries. Content represents more than 50 languages, including English, German, Romance languages, Slavic languages, and Asian languages.

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UCL staff and students now have online access to a wider collection of Gale archives, the majority of which can be cross-searched with other Gale Primary Sources. The new archives are:

• American Amateur Newspapers from the American Antiquarian Society
• American Historical Periodicals from the American Antiquarian Society, Parts I-VI
• The Independent Historical Archive, 1986-2016
• International Herald Tribune Historical Archive, 1887-2013
• Liberty Magazine Historical Archive, 1924-1950
• The Making of Modern Law: Legal Treatises, 1800-1926
• Mirror Historical Archive, 1903-2000
• Nineteenth Century Collections Online: Women and Transnational Networks
• Seventeenth and Eighteenth Century Nichols Newspapers Collection
• U.S. Declassified Documents Online
• Women’s Studies Archive: Female Forerunners Worldwide
• World Scholar: Latin America and the Caribbean

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UCL staff and students now have online access to The Nation Archive, 1865-2020.

The Nation Archive, 1865-2020 makes it possible for researchers to access 14 decades of America’s best alternative journalism. The archive contains thousands of historic articles, editorials, letters, reviews, poems, and puzzles dating back to the magazine’s first issue from July 6, 1865.

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UCL staff and students now have access to Native American Tribal Histories, Series 1-4: 1813-1880

Through much of the 19th century, the education, land rights, treaty negotiations and other affairs of Native American tribes were overseen by a cadre of superintendents from the federal Bureau of Indian Affairs (BIA). BIA superintendents scrupulously recorded their interactions with Native American tribes, leaving behind a detailed archive that is captured here in full. Native American Tribal Histories, Series 1-4: 1813-1880 contains all the manuscript letters and reports that the superintendents sent to Washington, D.C., as well as the responses and instructions received from the nation’s capital.

These primary source documents cover not only encounters between Indigenous people and the U.S. government, but also accounts of Native American cultures during a time when disease and forced relocation were transforming their lives.

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UCL now has access to Ethnologue: Languages of the World.

Ethnologue: Languages of the World is a reference resource that provides information and statistics for all of the world’s known living languages.

Language descriptions in the Ethnologue are organised by world area, UN region and country. Entries include:

• The region(s) of use within the countries where the language is spoken
• Alternate names for the language
• Dialects of the language
• The three-letter code that identifies the language according to the ISO 639-3 standard
• Estimated population of speakers
• Genetic classification of the language
• Domains of language use and viability
• Language vitality rating according to EGIDS
• Identification of scripts used to write the language
• Citations of literature and other products of language development

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UCL users can now access Sage Video: Media, Communications & Cultural Studies collection . This is addition to our existing access to the Education, Sociology and Psychology collections.

Featuring more than 135 hours of video, the Media, Communications & Cultural Studies collection offers academic viewpoints and real-life insights into how our media communicates with us and how we communicate with each other. Topics range from communication studies, film and television studies, popular culture and cultural studies, media studies, and advertising.

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UCL now has access to an increased selection of ProQuest and Alexander Street databases, initially until April 2023.

New ProQuest databases:

• Additional American newspapers have been added to UCL’s ProQuest Historical Newspapers access, and can all be cross-searched with this link. The new titles are: Arizona Republican 1890-2007; Atlanta Daily World; Cincinnati Enquirer 1841-2009; Detroit Free Press 1831-1999; Jerusalem Post; Nashville Tennessean 1812-2002; Philadelphia Inquirer 1860-2001; Philadelphia Tribune; Pittsburgh Courier; Pittsburgh Post-Gazette 1786-2003 and St. Louis Post-Dispatch 1874-2003
• Creation of Israel: British Foreign Office Correspondence on Palestine and Transjordan, 1940-1948
• Nazi Looted Art and Assets: Records on the Post-World War II Restitution Process, 1942-1998
• Struggle for Women’s Rights, Organizational Records, 1880-1990
• U.S. Diplomatic Post Records, 1914-1945
• U.S. Military Intelligence Reports, 1911-1944
• Women’s Studies Manuscript Collections from the Schlesinger Library: Voting Rights, National Politics, and Reproductive Rights
• News, Policy & Politics Magazine Archive (feat. Newsweek)
• Women’s Magazine Archive, Vol. 3

New Alexander Street databases:

• African American Music Reference
• Classical Music Reference Library: Music Online
• Disability in the Modern World: History of a Social Movement
• Early Encounters in North America
• Garland Encyclopedia of World Music: Music Online
• Manuscript Women’s Letters and Diaries
• Music Periodicals of the 19th Century: Music Online
• Theatre in Context Collection
• Twentieth Century Religious Thought: Volume III, Judaism

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UCL now has access to Artforum Archive, 1962-2020

The backfile of Artforum (later Artforum International), the leading magazine for coverage of international contemporary art, from its launch in 1962 to 2020. Spanning six decades of reporting on art in all media, Artforum offers features, reviews, and interviews relating to artists, exhibitions, publications, and other art world events / trends.

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