UCL now has access to Oxford Reference Online, which can be accessed via the databases list.

Oxford Reference Online includes a wide range of cross-searchable dictionary, language reference, and subject reference works published by Oxford University Press, with 1 million entries across 25 subject areas. Below are some examples of titles that are included.

• Dictionary of Accounting
• Dictionary of British Place Names
• Dictionary of Chemistry
• Dictionary of the Social Sciences
• New Oxford Companion to Law
• Oxford Classical Dictionary
• Oxford Companion to Archaeology
• Oxford Companion to Medicine
• Oxford Companion to Military History
• Oxford Dictionary of Art
• Oxford Dictionary of Quotations
• Oxford Encyclopedia of British Literature
• World Maps

UCL is taking part in the second phase of a JISC Collections project to explore and evaluate potential business models for e-textbooks. This project is the second phase of the Study on the Economic Impact of e-Textbook Business Models (Phase 1 report published April 2009), and aims to implement those models put forward in the Phase 1 report.

The trials, being run on behalf of JISC Collections by Content Complete Ltd, run from the start of the academic session until the end of May 2010 and consist of 4 individual business models for licensing e-textbooks. UCL is involved in trialling 2 of the models:
 
Trial 1 In collaboration with Palgrave, UCL will have access to 2 Political Science titles:
Understanding International Relations / Brown; 4th ed (2009)
Theories of International Relations / Burchill; 4th ed (2009)
These titles will be accessible via MyiLibrary and we will have unlimited access to them (as we would usually). Both titles will appear in eUCLid with links to the e-version.

Trial 2 In collaboration with Cambridge University Press, we will have access to the following titles:
Introductory Econometrics for Finance / Brooks; 2nd ed (2008)
International Law / Shaw; 6th ed. 2008
These titles will be available via the EBL platform. Students will have unlimited access, but there will also be options for them to purchase a range of things, including a hard copy, the full-text as an e-book, etc. It will be made clear that access is not dependent on a purchase so there should be no confusion, but any queries can be sent to June Hedges (j.hedges@ucl.ac.uk). Both titles will appear in eUCLid with links to the e-version.

More details about the project are available at the JISC Collections site: http://www.jiscebooksproject.org/business-models

If you have any questions please contact June Hedges (j.hedges@ucl.ac.uk)

 UCL now has access to two ebook packages for Anthropology and Geography:

• Anthropology and Social Studies ebooks from Berg
• Geography and Sustainable Development ebooks from Earthscan

 UCL now subscribes to the electronic versions of Who’s Who and Who Was Who.

Who’s Who contains over 33,000 short biographies, continually updated, of living noteworthy and influential individuals, from all walks of life, worldwide. 

The first edition of Who Was Who contained the entries from Who’s Who of those who had died between 1897 and 1915 with the date of death added to each.  Subsequent volumes of Who Was Who — there are now eleven — cover the years from 1916 to 2005.

There is a link to Who’s Who and Who Was Who on UCL Library Services’ databases list.

UCL’s access to Oxford Language Dictionaries Online now includes Russian.  This section of the site comprises more than 500,000 words, phrases and translations from the fourth edition of the Oxford Russian Dictionary, as well as tools and resources.

French, German, Italian and Spanish are also available on Oxford Language Dictionaries Online.

This is a reminder about the current ebooks project involving UCL and Cambridge University Press.  This project gives UCL users access to 750 ebooks in a variety of subjects, including law, anthropology, medicine, psychology and life sciences.  These ebooks are hosted on the MyiLibrary platform, where you can browse and search the titles that are part of the project.  In addition, all the titles appear on the Library catalogue. 

UCL students and staff now have access to the Wiley reference work Current Protocols in Neuroscience.  Select the link to the archive on the publication home page to view the core publication, from 1997, and all subsequent supplements.

UCL Library Services has bought the backfiles of three Chemistry ebook series:

Compendium of Organic Synthetic Methods  Vols. 1-8
Inorganic Syntheses Vols. 1-32              
Total Syntheses of Natural Products Vols. 1-11