UCL has trial access to the Royal Geographical Society Archives until 14th February 2020. To access off-site please use Desktop@UCL Anywhere .The Royal Geographical Society (with Institute of British Geographers) was founded in 1830 to promote the advancement of geographical science. The Society’s archive contains vast collections of documents, maps, photographs, expedition reports, manuscript materials and books, and span 500 years of geography, travel and exploration. The RGS holds one of the largest private map collections in the world. It includes one million sheets of maps and charts, 3000 atlases, 40 globes (as gores or mounted on stands) and 1000 gazetteers. The earliest printed cartographic item dates back to 1485.

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UCL has trial access to Teatro Espanol Siglo de Oro until 6th February 2020.To access off-site please use Desktop@UCL Anywhere.

Teatro Espanol Siglo de Oro is a full text database which contains important dramatic works of sixteenth and seventeenth century Spain and can be searched in Spanish or English. Teatro Espanol Siglo de Oro contains more than 800 plays written by 16 dramatists including Lope de Vega, Calderón de la Barca, Agustín Moreto etc.

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UCL has trial access to Caribbean Newspapers, Series I: 1718-1876, WNA: Latin American Newspapers (Series I) and WNA: Latin American Newspapers (Series II) from Newsbank until 17th January 2020.

Caribbean Newspapers, Series I: 1718-1876 :

• The largest collection of fully searchable 18th- and 19th-century Caribbean newspapers
• Tracks the evolution of the region across two centuries chronicled within more than 140 titles from 22 islands
• Used for research on colonial history, the Atlantic slave trade, international commerce, New World slavery and related topics

WNA: Latin American Newspapers (Series I) and WNA: Latin American Newspapers (Series II) :

• Online access to more than 300 newspapers published between 1805 and 1922
• Coverage ranging from Argentina to Venezuela—titles from more than 20 countries in the region
• Created in partnership with the Center for Research Libraries and its contributing members

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UCL has trial access to LGBT Magazine Archive and LGBT Thought and Culture until 9th January 2020

LGBT Magazine Archive features archival runs of 26 of the most influential, longest-running serial publications covering LGBT interests. Includes the pre-eminent US and UK titles – The Advocate and Gay Times, respectively. Chronicles more than six decades of the history and culture of the LGBT community. In addition to LGBT/gender/sexuality studies, this material also serves related disciplines such as sociology, political science, psychology, health, and the arts. Some publications may contain explicit content.

LGBT Thought and Culture is an online resource hosting the key works and archival documentation of LGBT political and social movements throughout the 20th century and into the present day. The collection contains 150,000 pages of rare archival content, including seminal texts, letters, periodicals, speeches, interviews, and ephemera.

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UCL has trial access to JSTOR’s Global Plants database until 17th December 2019.

Global Plants is the world’s largest database of digitized plant specimens. The collection features more than two million high-resolution type specimens and also includes partner-contributed reference works and primary sources, such as collectors’ correspondence and diaries, paintings, drawings, and photographs. Highlights include reference works and books such as The Useful Plants of West Tropical Africa and Flowering Plants of South Africa; illustrations from Curtis’s Botanical Magazine; and Kew’s Directors’ Correspondence, comprising handwritten letters and memoranda from the senior staff south of Kew from 1841 to 1928.

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UCL has trial access to the Roper Center iPOLL archive until 12th December 2019. To access off-site please use Desktop@UCL Anywhere.

The Roper Center for Public Opinion Research iPOLL archive features data from 1930 until the present and includes over 23,000 datasets from over 100 countries. There are currently over 720,000 searchable US questions. The studies in the collection cover topics including elections, politics, economics, education, health, international affairs, social issues, the environment and technology.

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UCL has trial access to Visual History Archive (VHA) until 12th December 2019. Initial login must be from within UCL. Users may click on “Continue as a guest” to access the product however, it is recommended that users click on “Register” and create a unique account.

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UCL has trial access to Readex’s African News Archive until 29th November 2019. To limit your search to only the African News Archive, select ‘World Newspaper Archive’ from the dropdown list of databases.

African News Archive consists of the following collections:

• Access Africa
• Business Day Archive (1985-Today)
• Financial Mail Archive (1959-Today)
• Rand Daily Mail Archive, 1902-1985
• Sunday Times Archive, 1906-today
• Sowetan Archive, 1981-today
• Apartheid: Global Perspectives, 1946-1996
• African History and Culture, 1540-1921
• African Newspapers: The British Library Collection
• Middle East and North Africa: Global Perspectives, 1958-1994

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UCL has trial access to Moscow Defense Brief until 18th November 2019.

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UCL has trial access to Statista until 13th December 2019.

Statista is an online portal for statistics, which makes data collected by market and opinion research institutes and data derived from the economic sector and official statistics available in English, French, German and Spanish. Statista consolidates statistical data on over 80,000 topics from more than 22,500 sources

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