25,000+ e-books available via JSTOR for a limited period – read the e-books you want and UCL Library Services will buy the most popular.

At the end of last year, UCL Library Services began a series of projects involving users in the acquisition of e-book content. UCL students and staff have been able to read and download 1000s of extra e-books across a wide range of subjects, with UCL Library Services buying those used most often and adding them to our existing collection of over 400,000 e-books.

Access to additional JSTOR e-books proved very popular so we are once again offering UCL staff and students access to a large part of the JSTOR e-book collection. You can now read over 25,000 e-books via JSTOR across a range of subjects and we will buy the most-used titles to add to our e-book collection. The access will end once the money we have deposited has been spent – we’ll keep you notified with updates via this blog. We are busy loading records so that you can find these additional e-books via Explore.

Go to our Ebooks on demand@UCL webpage to find out more about the various projects.

UCL now has access to the Encyclopedia of applied linguistics.

The Encyclopedia of applied linguistics is a reference work covering the highly diverse field of applied linguistics. It includes over 1,100 entries written by an international team of scholars from over 40 countries, making it ideal for students, teachers, researchers, and practitioners in the interdisciplinary field of applied linguistics.

Features include:

• Covers 27 key areas of the field, including Language Learning and Teaching, Bilingual and Multilingual Education, Assessment and Testing, Corpus Linguistics, Conversation Analysis, Discourse, Cognitive Second Language Acquisition, Language Policy and Planning, Literacy, and Technology and Language
• Features over 200 entries on the philosophy and history of applied linguistics and biographies of key applied linguists
• Entries range from 1,500 to 4,000 words, with longer, essay style contributions giving a detailed overview of key developments and ideas
• Twice yearly updates

If you have any questions about using this resource, please contact your subject librarian.

UCL now has access to Comprehensive Physiology.

Comprehensive Physiology is the most authoritative and comprehensive collection of physiology information ever assembled, and uses features of review journals and electronic reference works to cover the latest key developments in the field through the most authoritative articles on the subjects covered. This makes Comprehensive Physiology a valued reference work on the evolving science of physiology for both researchers and clinicians. It also provides a useful teaching tool for instructors and an informative resource for medical students and other students in the life and health sciences.

Additionally, Comprehensive Physiology comprises an archive of more than 30,000 pages of content from the American Physiological Society’s renowned Handbook of Physiology (HoP), which was published as a series of books from 1977 to 2008, presented here for the first time in digital format.

If you have any questions about this resource, please contact your subject librarian.

UCL now has access to the Encyclopedia of Ancient Greek Language and Linguistics.

The Encyclopedia of Ancient Greek Language and Linguistics brings together the latest research from across a range of disciplines which contribute to our knowledge of Ancient Greek. With over 500 entries on all aspects of Ancient Greek, it is a comprehensive research tool for scholars and students of Greek, of Linguistics, and of other Indo-European languages, as well as of Biblical literature.

Features and benefits include:

-Full text search and advanced search options
-Extensive cross-references and navigation via hyperlinks
-Articles covering a wide-range of topics such as the Greek of various sources (texts, manuscripts, inscriptions, reading traditions), major grammatical features (phonology, morphology, and syntax), lexicon, script and paleography, theoretical linguistic approaches, etc.
-All Greek transcribed

If you have any questions about using this resource, please contact your subject librarian.

UCL now has access to The Encyclopedia of Ancient History, a comprehensive collection of twenty-first century scholarship available on the entire ancient Mediterranean world.

The Encyclopedia of Ancient History includes over 5,000 original entries spanning the late Bronze Age through the seventh century CE, which extend to all Mediterranean civilizations including the Near East and Egypt, and represent an unprecedented level of coverage of the ancient world.

The Encyclopedia of Ancient History updates twice annually and in June 2015 it will update with approximately 100 new articles. Over the next several years, its coverage will expand to include parts of Ancient Asia and Africa.

If you have any questions about using this resource, please contact your subject librarian.

UCL Library Services is now running three pilot projects involving users in the acquisition of e-book content.

For a trial period, UCL students and staff can read and download 1000s of extra e-books across a wide range of subjects. UCL Library Services will buy those used most often and add them to our existing collection of over 300,000 e-books.

Like existing UCL e-books, these additional e-books can be found using Explore – search All Resources then filter by Online resource and Books. Alternatively you can go directly to one of the three websites where the additional e-books are hosted:

• Wiley Online Library
• JSTOR
• EBL

Go to our Ebooks on demand@UCL webpage to find out more.

UCL now has access to the Cambridge Edition of the Works of Ben Jonson Online.

The Cambridge Edition of the Works of Ben Jonson Online presents a complete reappraisal of this major Renaissance writer, complementing and extending the seven-volume print edition of Jonson’s works published in 2012.

If you have any questions about using the database, please contact your subject librarian.

UCL now has access to The Merck Index Online, the electronic version of the authoritative source of information on chemicals, drugs and biologicals.

The Merck Index Online is an easily-searchable, full-text database containing substance monographs, over 500 organic named reactions and reference tables. All the content from the print edition of The Merck Index is included, plus historic monographs only available online. The Merck Index Online will be updated regularly.

A quick search option allows you to search the database by name, CAS registry number, molecular formula or molecular weight or you can use the main search page to construct a multi-field search across a large variety of data types including various compound properties. Alternatively, you can search by chemical structure using the structure search.

If you have any questions about using the database, please contact your subject librarian.

UCL now has access to a number of new databases and ejournals.  Please see the databases or ejournals list, as appropriate, for links and further information.

BIOSIS Previews Backfiles (1926-1968)
Cambridge Histories Online
Cecil Papers
Colonial State Papers
Compendex backfiles (1884-1969)
Congressional Research Digital Collection
Cult of the Body
Digital National Security Archive
Documents on British Policy Overseas
Ethnographic Video Online
Global health archive
IEEE Wiley ebooks
Illustrated London News (see ejournals list)
Imperial Russia’s Illustrated Press
Mass Media in Russia
Nature Archive 1869-1949 (see ejournals list)
Neurology backfile (see ejournals list)
Popular Literature, Fiction and Songs in Imperial Russia
Russian Anarchist Periodicals of the 20th Century
Russian Theatre in the Early Twentieth Century
Scientific American Archive + Supplement (see ejournals list)
Social Theory
Springer backfiles (we now have all collections; see ejournals list)
Springer Protocols
Taylor and Francis backfiles (3 collections – Arts & Humanities, Behavioral Science, and Politics, International Relations & Area Studies) (see ejournals list)
Web of Knowledge Science Citation Index (1900-1944)
Yearbook of the Imperial Theatre (1890-1915)

UCL has access to the SPIE Digital Library until 31 December 2010.

SPIE, the international society for optics and photonics, was founded in 1955 to advance light-based technologies.  The SPIE Digital Library includes more than 275,000 technical papers from SPIE journals, and conference proceedings from 1990 to the present.  Ebooks – monographs, tutorials and field guides – are also available.

Please send feedback on this resource to the subject librarian for Engineering, Ruth Russell