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Trial access to the China Knowledge Portal (CKP)

By Sarah Gilmore, on 13 June 2025

UCL has trial access to the China Knowledge Portal (CKP) for 5 months until 30th November 2025.

CKP includes:

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Trial access to Sage Business Foundations and Business Data Decisions

By Sarah Gilmore, on 6 June 2025

UCL has trial access to Sage Business Foundations and Business Data Decisions until 16th July 2025, these have been added to our existing Sage Business content

Sage Business Foundations : covers key and emerging theories to help understand and apply different approaches to problem solving in the modern business environment.

Sage Business Data Decisions : helps users make strategic business recommendations through data-driven analysis.

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Trial access to Mental Measurements Yearbook via EBSCO

By Sarah Gilmore, on 4 June 2025

UCL has trial access to Mental Measurements Yearbook from EBSCO until 18th July 2025

Mental Measurements Yearbook (MMY) includes full-text reviews of 3,000+ contemporary testing instruments, plus all previous editions of the yearbook dating back to 1938 (10,000+ full-text reviews).

All MMY entries contain descriptive information (test purpose, publisher, pricing, population and scores) and edited reviews written by leading content area experts. To be included in the MMY, a test must be commercially available, published in the English language and be new or revised since it last appeared in the series.

First published by Oscar K. Buros, the MMY series allows users to make knowledgeable judgments and informed selection decisions about the increasingly complex world of testing. MMY via EBSCOhost now includes the MMY Archive, providing all yearbooks from the first edition in 1938 through the present edition.

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Trial access to Mental Measurements Yearbook via Ovid

By Sarah Gilmore, on 22 May 2025

UCL has trial access to Mental Measurements Yearbook and Mental Measurements Yearbook and Test In Print  from Ovid until 18th June 2025

Mental Measurements Yearbook and Mental Measurements Yearbook and Test In Print are resources covering psychology, education, business, and leadership, published by the Buros Center for Testing at the University of Nebraska.

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Trial access to ProQuest One Business

By Sarah Gilmore, on 16 May 2025

UCL has trial access to ProQuest One Business until 15th June 2025.

ProQuest One Business combines multiple ProQuest business information databases – including e.g. the ABI/INFORM Collection and J.P. Morgan Research – to a total of more than 130 million documents. The database delivers a mix of practical and theoretical content in a business-focused experience that guides users and helps students build the research skills they’ll need for success.

  • For more details about what’s included, please refer to the content page
    For more details on the specific features unique to ProQuest One Business, please see the unique Features page

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Trial access to AM Research Skills

By Sarah Gilmore, on 9 May 2025

UCL has trial access to AM Research Skills from AM Digital until 3rd June 2025.

AM Research Skills helps users build the skills needed to conduct research and evaluate primary sources with confidence. A modular tool designed to support students of the humanities and social sciences, AM Research Skills introduces the key approaches to working with source materials and historical evidence.

Answering the questions:

  • What are primary sources?
  • How can you use them in your research?
  • Why are some historical documents archived and why did others disappear?
  • Why does it matter today?

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Trial access to History Vault: Vietnam War and American Foreign Policy, 1960-1975

By Sarah Gilmore, on 8 May 2025

UCL has trial access to History Vault: Vietnam War and American Foreign Policy, 1960-1975 from ProQuest until 6th June 2025.

History Vault: Vietnam War and American Foreign Policy, 1960-1975 is collection of primary source materials focusing on the Vietnam War and the U.S. government’s involvement. It covers the period from the early Kennedy administration to the end of the war and the evacuation of U.S. troops. The collection includes documents from various sources, including the CIA, State Department, military, media, and presidential administrations.

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Trial access to LitBase from EBSCO

By Sarah Gilmore, on 8 May 2025

UCL has trial access to LitBase from EBSCO until 6th August 2025.

LitBase is a world literature database with critical primary and secondary texts to support research of the most studied authors and their works. LitBase offers a diverse spread of content including full text writing from all parts of the world and marginalized groups, such as black authors, women’s authors and the LGBTQ+ community.

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Trial access to Empire Studies – AM Scholar

By Sarah Gilmore, on 8 May 2025

UCL has trial access to Empire Studies – AM Scholar until 3rd June 2025. Please note that PDF download options are not available during trials.

Empire Studies – AM Scholar offers an array of sources for the study of the British Empire. It features material on British colonial policy and government; perspectives on life in British colonies; the relationship between gender and empire; race; and class.

Highlights include:

  • Letterbooks and personal papers of Duncan Campbell, a key figure in the founding of the Sydney colony in New South Wales
  • Manuscript sources on the condition of indigenous women and the extension of suffrage to women within the Empire from The National Archives
  • The personal papers of Lachlan Macquarie, Governor of New South Wales from 1810-1821
  • Correspondence and papers relating to Jamaican plantation life in the eighteenth and nineteenth-centuries

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Trial access to Women’s Studies – AM Scholar

By Sarah Gilmore, on 6 May 2025

UCL has trial access to Women’s Studies – AM Scholar until 3rd June 20o25. Please note that PDF download options are not available during trials.

Women’s Studies – AM Scholar offers access to the works and legacy of many notable and influential women, and also a chance to hear the voices of forgotten and ordinary women.

Modules include:

  • Aristocratic Women: The Social, Political and Cultural History of Rich and Powerful Women, 1722-1833
  • Colonial Discourses: Women, Travel & Empire, 1660-1914
  • International Women’s Suffrage: Suffrage Correspondence of Rose Scott, 1847-1925
  • Women, Education and Literature: The Papers of Maria Edgeworth, 1818-1834
  • Women, Emancipation and Literature: The Papers of Harriet Martineau, 1849-1866
  • Women, Morality and Advice Literature: Manuscripts and Rare Printed Works of Hannah More, 1745-1833
  • Women, Suffrage and Politics: The Papers of Sylvia Pankhurst, 1882-1960
  • Women, Writing and Travel: The Diaries of Stella Benson
  • Women’s Autobiographies: Rare printed autobiographies of fifty-five women’s lives, 1713-1859
  • Women’s Journals of the Nineteenth Century: The Women’s Penny Paper and Woman’s Herald, 1888-1893
  • Women’s Suffrage and Government Control: Papers from the Cabinet, Home Office and Metropolitan Police Files in the National Archives, UK, 1906-1922
  • Women’s Suffrage Collection: From Manchester Central Library, 1868

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