UCL users now have access to The Bloomsbury Global Encyclopedia of Women in Architecture 1960-2020.

With over 1,000 entries and 600 images, this two-volume work provides an authoritative reference to women architects and their work, and to key terms for gender and women’s rights in architecture. Within a geographical and historical framework, key architects from over 135 countries are included in detailed biographical entries. Coverage includes an expanded field of women designers from related fields (urbanism, landscape, and interiors), influential scholars, writers, and activists as well as key terms, themes, books, conferences and exhibitions.

The Encyclopedia is hosted on the Bloomsbury Visual Arts platform, where we also have access to Bloomsbury Architecture Library and the Bloomsbury International Encyclopedia of Surrealism.

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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 all currently available OREs, covering 25 disciplines across the humanities, social sciences, and sciences.

The new additions to our access are the Oxford Encyclopedia of Social Work and the Oxford Research Encyclopedias of

• Business and Management
• Global Public Health
• Neuroscience
• Physics
• Planetary Science
• Religion

The Oxford Research Encyclopedias (OREs) are comprehensive collections of in-depth overview articles on both foundational and cutting-edge research topics within a particular discipline. Written, peer-reviewed and updated by leading scholars in the field, the articles are designed to be read in 30 minutes or less.
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UCL has purchased access to four more modules of Oxford Bibliographies Online – African Studies, Chinese Studies, Education and Urban Studies.

The aim of Oxford Bibliographies Online is to offer authoritative guides to the best available scholarship on a variety of academic topics. Written and reviewed by academic experts and updated to evolve with current scholarship, the guides combine high-level overviews with commentary, annotations and citations. UCL now has access to twenty nine of the subject areas covered by OBO:

African Studies
American Literature
Anthropology
Art History
Atlantic History
Biblical Studies
British and Irish Literature
Childhood Studies
Chinese Studies
Cinema & Media Studies
Classics
Communication
Criminology
Education
Geography
International Law
International Relations
Islamic Studies
Latin American Studies
Linguistics
Literary & Critical Theory
Medieval Studies
Philosophy
Political Science
Psychology
Renaissance & Reformation
Sociology
Urban Studies
Victorian Literature

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UCL staff and students now have online access to the latest 11th edition of the AMA Manual of Style.

The manual includes comprehensive guidance on reference citations (including how to cite journal articles, books, reports, websites, databases, social media, and more), an expanded chapter on data display, a completely up-to-date chapter on ethical and legal issues (covering everything from authorship and open access to corrections and intellectual property), and updated guidance on usage (from patient-first language and terms to avoid to preferred spelling and standards for sociodemographic descriptors).

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UCL staff and students now have online access to The Blackwell Encyclopedia of Sociology.

This reference work contains entries ranging from short definitions of key terms to extended explorations of major topics. It covers not only materials that have historically defined the discipline of sociology but also more recent developments and sociological theories and research that have developed outside of the United States and Western Europe.

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UCL staff and students now have online access to The TESOL Encyclopedia of English Language Teaching.

The TESOL Encyclopedia of English Language Teaching explores the theoretical and practical aspects of English language instruction in over 750 entries written by leading practitioners and scholars from around the globe. The Encyclopedia is arranged thematically, covering the following key topic areas:

• Teaching English as an International Language;
• Approaches and Methods in English for Speakers of Other Languages;
• Approaches and Methods in Teaching English for Speakers of Other Languages;
• Non-Native English-Speaking Teachers (NNESTs);
• Teaching Listening;
• Teaching Speaking and Pronunciation;
• Teaching Reading;
• Teaching Writing;
• Teaching Grammar;
• Teaching Vocabulary;
• Sociocultural Aspects of English Language Teaching;
• Teaching and Technology;
• Organizational and Administrative Issues;
• Teacher Training and Professional Development;
• Assessment and Evaluation; and
• Current Trends and Future Directions in English Language Teaching.

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UCL staff and students now have access to many additional playtexts and works of criticism following a significant expansion of our Drama Online access.

We have extended our existing access to the Core collection and Nick Hern Books Modern Plays to cover all the titles in both collections.

We have added access to the following collections:

Aurora Metro Books
With over 125 plays, the Aurora Metro Books collection offers a highly contemporary list of new drama with a focus on women’s drama, international drama, drama in translation, and drama by black and Asian writers.

Oberon Books
Over 500 titles featuring a diverse selection of canonical and contemporary drama, including:

• contemporary, stand-out plays by British writers such as Gurpreet Kaur Bhatti, Alice Birch, Inua Ellams, Dennis Kelly, Jasmine Lee-Jones, and Laura Wade;
• international plays in translation; and
• canonical works from writers such as J.B Priestley and Arnold Wesker and modern reimagining of classics texts from authors such as Anne Carson and Gary Owen.

Critical Studies & Performance Practice
450 academic books from the prestigious Methuen Drama and The Arden Shakespeare imprints. Together they offer invaluable critical, contextual and pedagogic content from leading voices in theatre, performance and Shakespeare studies. This collection also includes PATAZ: Physical Actor Training – an online A-Z, which establishes a foundation for physical training exercises through over 60 dynamic videos with accompanying audio commentary, reflection, and texts for today’s physical actor, teacher, and trainer.

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UCL staff and students now have access to over 700 titles in OUP’s Very Short Introductions series.

The Very Short Introductions series offers concise and original introductions to a wide range of subjects across the humanities, social sciences and sciences. Each volume aims to provide an authoritative but accessible assessment of a concept, field, or body of work and draw out the central ideas, themes, and approaches. New topics and new editions are regularly added.

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We now have access to the Oxford Research Encyclopedias of Climate Science, Economics & Finance, Environmental Science, and Literature.

The Oxford Research Encyclopedias (OREs) are comprehensive collections of in-depth overview articles on both foundational and cutting-edge research topics within a particular discipline. Written, peer-reviewed and updated by leading scholars in the field, the articles are designed to be read in 30 minutes or less. UCL now has access to OREs in 17 disciplines across the humanities, social sciences, and sciences.

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