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Trial access to JFLIX Video Streaming Platform

By Sarah Gilmore, on 16 November 2022

UCL has trial access to JFLIX until 15th December 2022.

JFLIX is a video streaming platform, created in partnership with Movie Discovery, dedicated to award winning films on various topics dealing with Judaism and Israel. From Jewish history through biographies of leaders, along with films about Israeli society and culture. These films discuss questions such as Jewish identity and coping courageously with moral dilemmas.
JFLIX features 356 movies: see the full list on the website.

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Trial access to PressReader

By Sarah Gilmore, on 8 November 2022

UCL has trial access to PressReader until 4th December 2022. To access select ‘Sign In’ and then ‘Library or Group’ and search for University College London. You will be then be directed to the UCL Single Sign on. Use via the app is also included in the trial, download here

PressReader provides access to more than 7,000 of the world’s top newspapers and magazines as soon as they’re available on shelves. Titles include:

  • The Guardian
  • Newsweek
  • Daily Mail
  • Der Tagesspiegel
  • Libération
  • China Daily
  • La Razon

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Trial access to Oxford Business Group Reports

By Sarah Gilmore, on 26 October 2022

UCL has trial access to Oxford Business Group Reports until 11th November 2022. To access off-site please use Desktop@UCL Anywhere .

**Reports can be read by selecting the View in Online Reader option**

Oxford Business Group is a global research and advisory company producing business intelligence on more than 35 countries. Each business intelligence report is based on in-country research by experienced analysts with access to the most accurate statistics and independent analysis available

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Trial access to ProQuest Black Studies

By Sarah Gilmore, on 4 October 2022

UCL has trial access to ProQuest Black Studies until 3rd November 2022.

ProQuest Black Studies combines multi-format primary and secondary sources, such as historical Black newspapers, archival documents, government materials, videos, scholarly journals and essays.

Content includes:

  • Black Historical Newspapers: Including Atlanta Daily World, Baltimore Afro-American, Chicago Defender, Cleveland Call and Post, Los Angeles Sentinel, Louisville Defender, Michigan Chronicle, New York Amsterdam News, Norfolk Journal and Guide, Philadelphia Tribune, and Pittsburgh Courier
  • NAACP Papers
  • Civil Rights Organizational Papers
  • Black Abolitionist Papers

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Trial access to ESG content in IBISWorld

By Sarah Gilmore, on 22 September 2022

UCL has trial access to the ESG Risk Score Reports within IBISWorld until 22nd October 2022. Please note that this is addition to our existing access.

IBISWorld’s new ESG Risk Score chapter offers risk ratings and analysis on the environmental, social and governance aspects of UK industry operations to help you identify areas of concern in portfolios and inform credit policy.

Access includes:

  • ESG risk scores for over 500 industries
  • Measure an industry’s ESG risk across a set of 15 environmental, social and governance issues
  • Key ESG issues and talking points for each industry

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Trial access to Archive Finder

By Sarah Gilmore, on 20 July 2022

UCL has trial access to Archive Finder including ArchivesUSA and NIDS UK/Ireland until 19th August 2022.

Archive Finder is a current directory which describes over 220,000 collections of primary source material housed in thousands of repositories across the United States, the United Kingdom and Ireland.

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Trial access to Al-Ahram Digital Archive

By Sarah Gilmore, on 16 June 2022

UCL has trial access to Al-Ahram Digital Archive from East View until 10th July 2022.

Al-Ahram Digital Archive contains all obtainable published issues from 1875.

Founded in 1875, Al-Ahram (الأهرام‎, “The Pyramids”) is one of the longest-running newspapers in the Middle East. It has long been regarded as Egypt’s most authoritative and influential newspaper, and one of the most important newspapers in the Arab world, with a circulation of over 1 million. Prior to 1960, the newspaper was an independent publication and was renowned for its objectivity and independence. After being nationalized by President Nasser in 1960, Al-Ahram became the de facto voice of the Egyptian government and today the newspaper is managed by the Supreme Council of Press.

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Trial access to Nineteenth Century Collections Online: Asia and the West: Diplomacy and Cultural Exchange

By Sarah Gilmore, on 24 May 2022

UCL has trial access to Nineteenth Century Collections Online: Asia and the West: Diplomacy and Cultural Exchange from Gale until 22nd June 2022.

Nineteenth Century Collections Online: Asia and the West: Diplomacy and Cultural Exchange features a range of primary source collections related to international relations between Asian countries and the West during the nineteenth century. These documents include government reports, diplomatic correspondence, periodicals, newspapers, treaties, trade agreements, NGO papers, and more, offering a look at the inner workings of international relations.

This resource covers the history of British and US foreign policy and diplomacy; Asian political, economic, and social affairs; the Philippine Insurrection; the Opium Wars; the Boxer Rebellion; missionary activity in Asia; and other topics. Asia and the West also includes personal letters and diaries, offering first-hand accounts and the human side of international politics, as well as nautical charts, maps, ledgers, company records, and expedition and survey reports from 1790 to 1949.

Documents were sourced from the National Archives, Kew; the National Archives, United States; and other international collections and include:

  • British Foreign Office: Japan Correspondence, 1856-1905
  • Dispatches from U.S. Consuls in Osaka and Hiogo (Kobe), Japan, 1868-1906
  • Dispatches from U.S. Consuls in Seoul, Korea, 1886-1906
  • Chinese Missionary Gleaner (1853-1859)
  • History of the Philippine Insurrection Against the United States, 1899-1903, and Documents
  • Relating to the War Department Project for Publishing of History, 1899-1903
  • Missionary Files: Methodist, Episcopal Church Missionary Correspondence, 1846-1912 (China, Japan, Korea)
  • Notes from the Korean Legation in the United States to the Department of State, 1883-1906
  • Philippine Insurgent Records, 1896-1901, with Associated Records of the U.S. War Department, 1900-1906, 1896-1906
  • And much more

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Trial access to Adam Matthew Digital’s Research Methods Primary Sources

By Sarah Gilmore, on 24 May 2022

UCL has trial access to Adam Matthew Digital’s Research Methods Primary Sources until 21st June 2022.

Research Methods Primary Sources enables users to build the skills they need to conduct research and evaluate primary sources with confidence.

Designed as a tool to support students of the humanities and social sciences, Research Methods Primary Sources introduces the key approaches and methodologies of working with source material. The resource provides practical advice and instruction from experts around the world to provide foundational guidance on where students can find historical documents, the questions they might want to pose and how best to conduct their own research and analysis of materials

Comprising of video interviews, how-to guides, and essays from scholars and librarians working across the globe, it features over 100 individual case studies and more than 300 historical items drawn from 50 archives, providing opportunities for students to employ their new skills and knowledge to critically evaluate sources.
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Trial access to Cambridge Archive Editions Online: Minorities in the Middle East: Jewish Communities in Arab Countries, 1841-1974

By Sarah Gilmore, on 18 May 2022

UCL has trial access to Cambridge Archive Editions Online: Minorities in the Middle East: Jewish Communities in Arab Countries, 1841-1974 until 12th June 2022

Minorities in the Middle East: Jewish Communities in Arab Countries, 1841-1974 is the online version of the 6 volume series featuring reports describing the arrangements and conditions for Jewish communities living under Islam, throughout the Arab world, from 1840 to 1974. The situation of Jewish communities has varied according to the country of habitation and the particular time period although it is thought generally to have deteriorated from 1800 with the decline of the Ottoman Empire. Up to 1948 more than a million Jews lived in the Muslim countries of the Middle East. By 1992, excluding the non-Arab states of Turkey and Iran, the number was only c.20,000. The documents provide a series of snapshots of history from which it is possible to ascertain something of the contemporary position of Jewish communities at particular points. Geographically the collection covers the Arab Middle East and the Maghreb countries, but excludes the (non-Arab) states of Turkey and Iran.

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