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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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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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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UCL has a two week trial to Europresse, until 18th April 2025.

Europresse is a digital platform offering access to over 6,200 publications, including national and regional newspapers, journals, magazines, and blogs, with a strong emphasis on French and Francophone titles.

Tips for use:

• When accessing you can choose English or French language search
• By clicking on “student”,  you can try the 2 different methods of research : the mobile version = « google » is the simple search and the classic version offers an advanced research and also access to the analysis dashboards

Please see the short Europresse tutorials which cover all functionalities and advantages

• How to find PDF publications
• How to perform a simple search
• How to perform an advanced search
• How to view search results
• How to pin a document
• How to save documents
• How to print a document

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UCL has trial access to Entrepreneurial Studies Source by EBSCO until 22nd May 2025.

Entrepreneurial Studies Source is a full-text database covering the latest insights in entrepreneurship and small business ownership. It offers hundreds of full-text journals and books, plus company profiles and videos.

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UCL has trial access to Africa Commons until 31st March 2025.

Africa Commons is a project from Coherent to digitize, disseminate, and discover African cultural materials. The database consists of five collections:

• African History and Culture – an index, search engine and preservation tool for more than 500,000 openly available books, magazines, and other primary sources
• Black South African Magazines – the first and only digital collection of magazines created for Black audiences in Africa from 1937 to 1973.
• Southern African Films and Documentaries – hundreds of African documentaries, oral histories, and other films for study and learning.
• East African Magazines, Newspapers, and Films: The Hilary Ng’weno Archive – collection of full-run magazines, newspapers, and films from the legendary Kenyan journalist, Hilary Ng’weno.
• West African Magazines – collection of rare, historically significant magazines from West Africa, digitized for the first time.

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UCL has trial access to The Japan Times Digital Archive until 31st March 2025.

The Japan Times Digital Archive contains every published issue, from March 1897 to present (approx. 500,000 pages), including special supplements going back to the 1890s.

The Japan Times was launched on March 22, 1897 during the Meiji era. This was a time when Japanese society experienced political, social, and industrial revolution, from being an isolated feudal society to emerging as a great power on the world stage. Fundamental changes took place, to social structures, internal politics, economy, military, and foreign relations. The Japan Times has offered a unique point-of-view, different from other Japanese language newspapers, since its first issue. This is a rare resource of English language media during the Meiji and Taishō eras.

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UCL has trial access to ProQuest Entrepreneurship Collection until 26th April 2025.

The Entrepreneurship Collection provides access to key scholarship, tools, and resources to help entrepreneurs and students navigate the complex world of small business. It contains a diverse collection of resources including journals, industry reports, video clips, “how to” books, templated forms, business plan samples, and more from top publishers.

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UCL has trial access to BBC Monitoring: Summary of World Broadcasts, Essential Global Media, 1939-2001 until 19th March 2025.

BBC Monitoring was founded in 1939 at the start of WWII. Its purpose was to listen to radio broadcasts and gather open-source intelligence to help Britain and its allies understand global dynamics and assess emerging global threats. Over the next 60 years, the scope of its monitoring grew quickly. Trained specialists transcribed broadcasts of speeches, current affairs, political discussions, and social and cultural events worldwide. Transcripts, in turn, were translated into English, then read by experts who carefully selected critical content for publication. Finally, selections were summarized and curated into daily reports that comprise the Summary of World Broadcasts. These original daily reports often included commentary and evaluation by subject matter experts, as well as synopses and specialist briefings.

UCL’s trial access covers Series 1-4, 1939 to 2001.

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UCL has trial access to Policy Commons Complete until 31st March 2025.

Policy Commons is a discovery, access and preservation service for informally published policy content from IGOs, NGOs and think tanks. The full suite of modules consists of:

• Oceania : The complete policy picture for Oceania. The only comprehensive grey literature database in the region, with the benefit of preservation
• Public Health and Social Care : Bringing together research, pilot projects, real-world evaluations, newsletters, and collaborative projects from frontline health providers, hospital systems, foundations, patient groups, practitioner communities, governments, think tanks, and other organizations produce
• North American City Reports : Over 1.5 million pages of in-depth surveys, reports, and research from more than six hundred North American cities and urban agencies
• World Cities and Local Governments
• Global Think Tanks : The largest database for public policy, covering reports, working papers, policy briefs, data sources, and media drawn from a directory of IGOs, NGOs, and research centers. Please note that UCL users already have subscribed access to this module
• World Governments : Millions of essential research documents from more than 150 governments around the world, enriched and integrated on a single platform
• World Cities : Cities are on the front lines of today’s most pressing challenges and their publications document the ground truth

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