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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 4th 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  • Why are some historical documents archived and why did others disappear?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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Trial access to The Routledge Performance Archive

By Sarah Gilmore, on 1 May 2025

UCL has trial access to The Routledge Performance Archive until 26th May 2025.

The Routledge Performance Archive (RPA) provides access to a continually-expanding range of streamed video and audio footage from performance practitioners past and present, paired with relevant critical commentary.

The archive contains:

  • interviews with key figures in performance history and contemporary practice
  • masterclasses with specialist performance trainers from around the world
  • footage direct from legendary practitioners
  • excerpted and full-length contemporary productions and experiments
  • documentaries previously unavailable to global audiences
  • specially commissioned contextual essays from knowledgeable practitioners and scholars

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Trial access to LGBTQ+ Source (EBSCO)

By Sarah Gilmore, on 30 April 2025

UCL has trial access to LGBTQ+ Source from EBSCO until 29th July 2025.

LGBTQ+ Source provides scholarly and popular LGBTQ+ publications in full text, plus historically important primary sources, including monographs, magazines, newspapers and videos. It also includes a specialized LGBTQ+ thesaurus containing thousands of terms.

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Trial access to the Institute of Art and Ideas (IAI) platform

By Sarah Gilmore, on 29 April 2025

UCL has trial access to the Institute of Art and Ideas (IAI) platform until Thursday 29th May 2025.

The Institute of Art and Ideas (IAI) is a platform packed with exclusive video debates, talks, and articles from leading academics across philosophy, science, politics, and the arts.

The IAI is the meeting place for the world’s leading thinkers and Nobel-prize winning academics, containing thousands of hours of video debates, solo talks and articles, aimed at sparking cutting-edge research and exploring big questions across disciplines. You’ll also find live events and content that can inspire both teaching and learning.

Want a quick walk-through? The IAI will be offering short demos for academic use. Questions or demo requests? Email education@artandideas.org

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