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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UCL has trial access to Palestine: The British Mandate, 1917–1948 and Palestine: The Legal Background until 13th November 2024.

• Palestine: The British Mandate, 1917–1948 offers a comprehensive range of primary sources on the history of Mandatory Palestine. It gives access to the principal memoranda, statements and reports published during the time of the British Mandate, from the Balfour Declaration of 1917 to the end of the Mandate in 1948. It includes the White Papers and reports relating to the Official Commissions sent to Palestine. Also included are the British reports to the Permanent Mandate Commission of the League of Nations, since Palestine was assigned to the League of Nations, Great Britain being the trustee. In addition, the collection contains sources pertaining to the social, demographic and economic development of Palestine.
• Palestine: The Legal Background offers source materials on the legal position of the Israeli-Occupied Territories until 1984, including military orders and regulations issued by the Israeli Government. Additional sources, such as the Ottoman laws and the Palestine Gazette, have been added to offer a wider historical context.

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UCL has trial access to Film & Television Literature Index with Full Text until 22nd October 2024.

Film & Television Literature Index with Full Text overs the spectrum of film and television studies, providing comprehensive collection of full text from scholarly and popular sources. In addition to the full-text journals, the database also includes Variety movie reviews dating back to 1914.

Content Includes:

• More than 100 active full-text journals and magazines
• More than 70 active full-text, peer-reviewed journals
• More than 60 active full-text, peer-reviewed journals with no embargo
• More than 65,000 images from the MPTV Image Archive

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UCL has trial access to the Associations Unlimited database from Gale until 10th September 2024.

The Associations Unlimited database comprises of access to:

• Encyclopedia of Associations: International Organizations : covers multinational and national membership organizations from Afghanistan to Zimbabwe – including U.S.-based organizations with a binational or multinational membership.
• Encyclopedia of Associations: National Organizations of the U.S. : comprehensive source of detailed information concerning nonprofit American membership organizations of national scope. Covers more than 23,000 organizations in categories such as trade, business, and commercial; legal, governmental, public administration and many more
• Encyclopedia of Associations: Regional, State and Local Organizations : provides comprehensive information on associations and societies that are organized and function at the regional (both interstate and intrastate), state, county, city, neighborhood, and local levels. Coverage includes all 50 states, the District of Columbia, and the U.S. territories of Guam, Puerto Rico, and the Virgin Islands.
• National Directory of Nonprofit Organizations : comprehensive guide to the growing nonprofit world designed for marketers, sales staff, and nonprofit professionals. Provides contact and basic factual information on the largest nonprofit organizations in the United States.

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UCL currently has trials running with two online services offering access to ebooks and ejournals in Hebrew. The trials are running until 31st August 2024.

PSIK provides access to over 4,500 Hebrew ebooks (including fiction and poetry) and 30+ magazines and journals from major Israeli publishers. As well as signing in via UCL, you will need to register with the platform to read the full text.

The Kotar Library provides access to Israeli-published academic works on topics ranging from Israel studies to Judaics, Jewish history, humanities, social sciences and more.

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UCL has trial access to PatSeer until 6th November 2024. This trial is for current UCL students and staff only and access is limited to 5 users at a time.

To access:

• go to PatSeer
• add your UCL email address to the username field in the login tab
• you will then receive and authentication code via email.

PatSeer is an AI-driven Patent Search and Intelligence Platform which includes more than 165M patents across 108+ countries.

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UCL has trial access to ZEDHIA until 10th October 2024. Please note that access is restricted to 3 concurrent users.  For offsite access please first login to Desktop@UCL Anywhere or the UCL VPN

ZEDHIA features digitalized full text about the history of Central Europe’s business, economy and genealogy. The 28,543 volumes and 1.3 million pages of the publications comprised in ZEDHIA cover the history of Austrian business from 1789 until 2003.

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