UCL now has access to Academic Video Online (AVON) both via the Alexander Street video platform and the ProQuest platform.

Academic Video Online streams over 70,000 video titles spanning subject areas including anthropology, business, counseling, film, health, history, music, and more. More than 18,000* titles are exclusive to Alexander Street / ProQuest

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UCL now has access to the complete Oxford University Press Law Research and Reference Collection. This is comprised of:

Oxford Public International Law which includes-

• Max Planck Encyclopedias of International Law
• Oxford Historical Treaties
• Oxford International Organizations (OXIO)
• Oxford Reports on International Law (International Trade Law; International Law in EU Courts; International Law in Domestic Courts; International Criminal Law; International Human Rights Law;International Investment Claims; International Courts of General Jurisdiction)
• Oxford Scholarly Authorities on International Law

Oxford Constitutional Law which includes-

• Max Planck Encyclopedia of Comparative Constitutional Law (MPECCoL)
• Oxford Compendium of National Legal Responses to Covid-19
• Oxford Constitutions of the World (OCW)
• US Constitutional Law (USC)

Oxford Legal Research Library which includes-

• OLRL – Financial and Banking Law
• OLRL –  International Commercial Arbitration 
• OLRL – International Commercial Law
• OLRL – Private International Law

Investment Claims

Oxford Competition Law

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UCL now has access to PitchBook. Access is for UCL students and staff only.  Add your UCL email address and access via the UCL single sign-on.

PitchBook provides insight into the flow of capital across the venture capital, private equity and M&A ecosystem with detailed data on the private and public markets—including companies, investors, funds, investments, exits and people

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UCL now has access to all 102 collections from British Online Archives. These collections are organised into themed series:

• American Studies, 1621-1952
• British Broadcasting Corporation, 1927-2002
• British Communism at Home and Abroad, 1883-1991
• Global Governance in the 20th Century
• Governing Africa, 1808-1995
• India under Colonial Rule, 1752-1933
• The Industrial Revolution in Britain and the World, 1635-1970
• Politics and Protest, 1102-1994
• Representing Britain, 1796-1962
• Running the West Indies, 1678-1950
• Spreading the Word, 1808-1967
• The Transatlantic Slave Trade, 1675-1907
• World Wars, 1863-1974

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UCL now has access to Gale’s digital humanities platform Digital Scholar Lab

Gale’s Digital Scholar Lab is designed to transform the way user’s access and analyse Gale primary source materials by offering solutions to some of the most common challenges facing researchers in the digital humanities

• Digital Scholar Lab gives users the ability to create custom content sets containing up to 10,000 documents. Users can search across UCL’s Gale Primary Sources holdings and select documents to be added to their custom content set.
• Users can analyse and interrogate the data with the text analysis and visualization tools built into the Gale Digital Scholar Lab. Digital humanities analysis methods include: Named Entity Recognition, Topic Modelling, Parts of Speech, and more.
• Users’ content sets remained saved in the Gale Digital Scholar Lab allowing them to manage their research for long term projects.

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UCL now has full text access to World Bank eLibrary

World Bank eLibrary access now covers the complete collection of World Bank formal publications and journals since the 1990s, as well as reports, working papers, and top data from the World Bank’s World Development Indicators

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UCL users now have access to: Mintel : UK Reports and Trends

Mintel is a source of expert insight and analysis on consumers, companies, markets and products.

For more information see the videos below:

Mintel Reports (please note we have the UK reports only)

Mintel Trends

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UCL users can now access Bloomsbury’s Shakespeare’s Globe on Screen, collections 1 & 2

Shakespeare’s Globe on Screen provides streaming access to 30 productions from Shakespeare’s Globe theatre from 2008-2018. The collection includes performances from actors including Mark Rylance, Stephen Fry, and Roger Allam’s Olivier Award-winning Falstaff in Henry IV. It also includes two productions from Emma Rice’s tenure as Artistic Director and the first production from the indoor Jacobean theatre, the Sam Wanamaker Playhouse.

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UCL users can now access Preqin Pro

Preqin Pro is a comprehensive database focused on Private Capital (Private Equity and Venture Capital) and Real Estate. It provides data about companies and funds, deals, exits, ESG exposure and strategies.

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UCL is now subscribing to Wiley StatsRef, a comprehensive online reference resource which covers the fundamentals and applications of statistics. The resource has over 6,000 articles selected from eight Wiley reference works on statistics. The articles are fully searchable and updated with new and revised content.

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