UCL has trial access to Entrepreneurial Studies Source by EBSCO until 18th April 2025.

Entrepreneurial Studies Source is a full-text database covering the latest insights in entrepreneurship and small business ownership. It offers hundreds of full-text journals and books, plus company profiles and videos.

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UCL has trial access to Africa Commons until 31st March 2025.

Africa Commons is a project from Coherent to digitize, disseminate, and discover African cultural materials. The database consists of five collections:

• African History and Culture – an index, search engine and preservation tool for more than 500,000 openly available books, magazines, and other primary sources
• Black South African Magazines – the first and only digital collection of magazines created for Black audiences in Africa from 1937 to 1973.
• Southern African Films and Documentaries – hundreds of African documentaries, oral histories, and other films for study and learning.
• East African Magazines, Newspapers, and Films: The Hilary Ng’weno Archive – collection of full-run magazines, newspapers, and films from the legendary Kenyan journalist, Hilary Ng’weno.
• West African Magazines – collection of rare, historically significant magazines from West Africa, digitized for the first time.

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UCL has trial access to The Japan Times Digital Archive until 31st March 2025.

The Japan Times Digital Archive contains every published issue, from March 1897 to present (approx. 500,000 pages), including special supplements going back to the 1890s.

The Japan Times was launched on March 22, 1897 during the Meiji era. This was a time when Japanese society experienced political, social, and industrial revolution, from being an isolated feudal society to emerging as a great power on the world stage. Fundamental changes took place, to social structures, internal politics, economy, military, and foreign relations. The Japan Times has offered a unique point-of-view, different from other Japanese language newspapers, since its first issue. This is a rare resource of English language media during the Meiji and Taishō eras.

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UCL has trial access to ProQuest Entrepreneurship Collection until 28th March 2025.

The Entrepreneurship Collection provides access to key scholarship, tools, and resources to help entrepreneurs and students navigate the complex world of small business. It contains a diverse collection of resources including journals, industry reports, video clips, “how to” books, templated forms, business plan samples, and more from top publishers.

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UCL has trial access to BBC Monitoring: Summary of World Broadcasts, Essential Global Media, 1939-2001 until 19th March 2025.

BBC Monitoring was founded in 1939 at the start of WWII. Its purpose was to listen to radio broadcasts and gather open-source intelligence to help Britain and its allies understand global dynamics and assess emerging global threats. Over the next 60 years, the scope of its monitoring grew quickly. Trained specialists transcribed broadcasts of speeches, current affairs, political discussions, and social and cultural events worldwide. Transcripts, in turn, were translated into English, then read by experts who carefully selected critical content for publication. Finally, selections were summarized and curated into daily reports that comprise the Summary of World Broadcasts. These original daily reports often included commentary and evaluation by subject matter experts, as well as synopses and specialist briefings.

UCL’s trial access covers Series 1-4, 1939 to 2001.

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UCL has trial access to Policy Commons Complete until 31st March 2025.

Policy Commons is a discovery, access and preservation service for informally published policy content from IGOs, NGOs and think tanks. The full suite of modules consists of:

• Oceania : The complete policy picture for Oceania. The only comprehensive grey literature database in the region, with the benefit of preservation
• Public Health and Social Care : Bringing together research, pilot projects, real-world evaluations, newsletters, and collaborative projects from frontline health providers, hospital systems, foundations, patient groups, practitioner communities, governments, think tanks, and other organizations produce
• North American City Reports : Over 1.5 million pages of in-depth surveys, reports, and research from more than six hundred North American cities and urban agencies
• World Cities and Local Governments
• Global Think Tanks : The largest database for public policy, covering reports, working papers, policy briefs, data sources, and media drawn from a directory of IGOs, NGOs, and research centers. Please note that UCL users already have subscribed access to this module
• World Governments : Millions of essential research documents from more than 150 governments around the world, enriched and integrated on a single platform
• World Cities : Cities are on the front lines of today’s most pressing challenges and their publications document the ground truth

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UCL has trial access to the El Comercio Digital Archive until 23rd March 2025.

El Comercio Digital Archive was founded in 1839 and is the longest-running newspaper in Peru and one of the oldest Spanish-language newspapers in the world. It is considered Peru’s newspaper of record and is one of the most influential newspapers in South America—with a circulation of over 100,000.

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UCL has trial access to Political Extremism and Radicalism via Gale until 13th February 2025.

Political Extremism and Radicalism consists of three collections:

• Political Extremism and Radicalism: Far-Right and Left Political Groups in the U.S., Europe, and Australia in the Twentieth Century
• Political Extremism and Radicalism: Far-Right Groups in America
• Political Extremism and Radicalism: Global Communist and Socialist Movements

Political Extremism and Radicalism provides insight on unorthodox (by contemporary standards), fringe groups from both the right and left of the political spectrum through rare, hard to access primary sources.  Content supports research on philosophical, social, political and economic ideologies as well as on contemporary issues surrounding gender, sexuality, race, religion, civil rights, universal suffrage, and more

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UCL has trial access to The Scotsman, 1817-2002 via ProQuest Historical Newspapers until 5th February 2025.

The Scotsman was established as a liberal weekly to challenge the establishment’s dominance of Edinburgh’s press. With a commitment to “impartiality, firmness, and independence,” the newspaper quickly rose to prominence for its bold reporting and objective stance. Transitioning to a daily in 1855, The Scotsman has since covered significant historical moments, from the Highland Clearances and the Industrial Revolution to world wars and the RMS Lancastria disaster.

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UCL has trial access to British Colonial Policy and Intelligence Files on Asia and the Middle East, c. 1880–c. 1950 from Brill until 16th November 2024.

British Colonial Policy and Intelligence Files on Asia and the Middle East, c. 1880–c. 1950 is a primary source database consisting of the following collections:

• British Intelligence and Policy on Persia (Iran), c. 1900–1949
• British Intelligence on Afghanistan and Its Frontiers, c. 1888–1946
• British Military Intelligence on China and the Boxer Rising, c. 1880–1930
• British Intelligence on Russia in Central Asia, c. 1865–1949
• British Intelligence on Siam (Thailand) and Mainland Southeast Asia, c. 1887–1948
• British Intelligence Files on the Chinese in Tibet (c. 1900–1950)
• British Intelligence on the Gulf Arab States, c. 1914–1948
• British Intelligence on The North-West Frontier, 1901–1949
• British Intelligence on Yemen, c. 1880–1967
• The Creation of Modern Iraq, c. 1914–1921
• The Creation of Modern Saudi Arabia, c. 1914–1939
• Delineating British Burma, c. 1826–1949
• Indian Political Intelligence Files, 1912–1950
• The Rise of Modern Turkey, c. 1906–1939

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