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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UCL has trial access to The Social History Archive – including the Bookseller archive – until 20th September 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 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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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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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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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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