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Trial access to The Social History Archive – including the Bookseller archive

By Sarah Gilmore, on 5 July 2024

UCL has trial access to The Social History Archive – including the Bookseller archive – until 9th August 2024. Access is via the UCL single sign on, using your UCL username and password.

The Social History Archive is the largest online archive of British and Irish records, providing access to 3.5 billion transcribed records and 375 million digitised scans of original records.

The archive features:

  • Largest online archive of British and Irish records.
  • Comprehensive collection of British and Irish census, military and crime records online.
  • In association with The National Archives, online access to the 1921 Census of England & Wales.
  • Over 30 million newspaper pages and 1,000 titles from the British Library’s holdings – this includes the full backfile of the Bookseller.

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UCL has trial access to FSTA – Food Science and Technology Abstracts with Full Text (EBSCO)

By Sarah Gilmore, on 12 June 2024

UCL has trial access to FSTA – Food Science and Technology Abstracts with Full Text via EBSCO until 11th July 2024.

FSTA – Food Science and Technology Abstracts with Full Text is a specialized full-text database covering scientific and technological literature relating to food, beverages and nutrition, produced in collaboration with a team of experts within IFIS.

In addition to the core areas of food science, food technology and nutrition, FSTA with Full Text includes food-focused content across a host of related fields, including:

  • Biotechnology
  • Food safety
  • Omics technologies
  • Pet foods
  • Sport science
  • Sustainability

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Trial access to Codices Vossiani Latini Online

By Anna Sansome, on 8 May 2024

UCL has trial access to Codices Vossiani Latini Online until 31st May 2024.

Codices Vossiani Latini Online contains all 363 codices which form the world-famous Latin part of Isaac Vossius’ manuscript collection held at Leiden University Library. Isaac Vossius (1618-1689) was a classical philologist and collector of manuscripts, maps, atlases and printed works. The Codices Vossiani Latini comprises a large number of early medieval manuscripts and major sources of many classic texts, including the oldest sources of Lucretius’ De natura rerum and of Cicero’s philosophical works. The manuscript collection is enriched by detailed information drawn from by K. A. de Meyier’s catalogues of the codices, providing essential information on the content, context, and physical appearance of each codex.

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Trial access to Public Information Online (PIO)

By Sarah Gilmore, on 25 April 2024

UCL has trial access to Public Information Online (PIO) until 24th May 2024.  For offsite access please first login to Desktop@UCL Anywhere or the UCL VPN

Public Information Online (PIO) is an archive of searchable Parliamentary and Official documents as PDFs. It contains publications from the Westminster Parliament, Scottish Parliament, Northern Ireland Assembly, Welsh Parliament (Senedd), Scottish Government and also Non-Parliamentary material.  It features Bills, Command Papers, House of Commons Papers, House of Lords Papers, Hansard, Scottish Parliament Papers, the SP Official Report and Scottish Government Papers.

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Trial access to Electronic Enlightenment from Oxford University Press

By Sarah Gilmore, on 19 April 2024

UCL has trial access to Electronic Enlightenment from Oxford University Press until 17th May 2024. For offsite access please first login to Desktop@UCL Anywhere or the UCL VPN

Electronic Enlightenment: Letters & Lives is a pioneering digital resource for the study of the letter and its place in the rich writing cultures of the ‘long’ eighteenth century.

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Trial access to BiblioPlanet

By Sarah Gilmore, on 17 April 2024

UCL has trial access to BiblioPlanet until 19th May 2024. For offsite access please first login to Desktop@UCL Anywhere or the UCL VPN

BiblioPlanet is a joint project of MIPP International, a company with solid experience of bookselling focused primarily on print publications from the Post-Soviet area, and Direkt-Media, the largest aggregator of Russian academic literature.

The platform, with English language interface, offers above 70 000 authoritative high-quality ebooks on Russian Literature and Linguistics, History, Law, Economics, Social Sciences and Culture.

Additionally it provides access to:

  • encyclopedias
  • audiobooks
  • maps

A short video presentation of BiblioPlanet is available at Introduction to BiblioPlanet platform

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Trial access to CCH Trade Regulations Reporter on VitalLaw

By Sarah Gilmore, on 14 March 2024

UCL has trial access to CCH Trade Regulations Reporter on VitalLaw until 25th March 2024. For offsite access please first login to Desktop@UCL Anywhere or the UCL VPN

CCH Trade Regulations Reporter has been the “publication of record” in the antitrust and trade regulation fields since 1914. It is the only single source of the policies, rules, and guidelines of the U.S. Department of Justice and is the only publication providing U.S. antitrust cases, texts, and pending U.S. consent decrees. An important feature is the full-text reporting of court decisions in both government and private antitrust litigation.

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Trial access to BiblioRossica Digital Library

By Sarah Gilmore, on 13 March 2024

UCL has trial access to BiblioRossica Digital Library until 11th April 2024.

BiblioRossica publishes Russian translations of non-fiction literature in the humanities and social sciences, as well as prominent academic works originally written in Russian. The collection includes over 26,000 titles with thematic collections spanning works in history, philosophy, linguistics, art, sociology and more.

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Trial access to Gallup Analytics

By Sarah Gilmore, on 5 March 2024

UCL has trial access to Gallup Analytics until 28th April 2024

Gallup Analytics contains unique public opinion data and analysis compiled by Gallup. It includes answers to more than 125,000 questions, and responses from more than 3.5 million people interviewed in the Unites States since 1935.

The platform can be used to:

  • perform detailed searches on hundreds of U.S. and global metrics
  • examine data by demographic and socio-economic groups, including income, education, age and gender
  • export data to create custom data tables, trends, charts and scatter plots

Gallup Analytics has three sections:

  • Gallup Brain (historic surveys going back to 1935)
  • Gallup World Poll (surveys from 160+ countries since 2005)
  • Gallup Daily Tracking (daily surveys across the US since 2008)

Users can access Gallup’s U.S. Daily tracking and World Poll data to compare residents’ responses region by region and nation by nation to questions on topics such as economic conditions, government and business, health and wellbeing, infrastructure, and education.

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Trial access to BioCyc: Genome Database Collection

By Sarah Gilmore, on 27 February 2024

UCL has trial access to BioCyc: Genome Database Collection until 23rd March 2024. For offsite access please first login to Desktop@UCL Anywhere or the UCL VPN

BioCyc is a collection of 20,045 Pathway/Genome Databases (PGDBs) for model eukaryotes and for thousands of microbes, plus software tools for exploring them. BioCyc is an encyclopedic reference that contains curated data from 146,000 publications.

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