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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UCL has trial access to three of Elsevier’s Reference Modules until September 2020.

The Reference Modules are subject-focused collections intended to provide authoritative, foundational content for students and interdisciplinary researchers. The Reference Modules are each overseen by an editorial board and combine a set of curated and updated articles from Elsevier’s major reference works with newly-written content. In addition, access is provided to the full content of the underlying reference works.

UCL is trialling access to:

Reference Module in Biomedical Sciences
This includes access to the latest editions of reference works such as the Encyclopedia of Biomedical Engineering, the Encyclopedia of Tissue Engineering and Regenerative Medicine, the Encyclopedia of Cardiovascular Research and Medicine, the International Encyclopedia of Public Health and Comprehensive Toxicology – see the full list of titles included in the trial in Explore.

Reference Module in Life Sciences
This includes access to the latest editions of reference works such as the Encyclopedia of Animal Behaviour and the Encyclopedia of Bioinformatics and Computational Biology – see the full list of titles included in the trial in Explore.

Reference Module in Neuroscience & Biobehavioral Psychology
This includes access to the latest editions of reference works such as Learning and Memory: A Comprehensive Reference, Comprehensive Clinical Psychology and the Encyclopedia of Movement Disorders – see the full list of titles included in the trial in Explore.

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UCL has trial access to Popular Culture in Britain and America, 1950-1975: Rock and Roll, Counterculture, Peace and Protest until 23rd September 2019. To access off-site please use Desktop@UCL Anywhere. Please note that PDF download options are not available during the trial.

From the austerity of the 1950s to the excess of the 1970s, this resource covers the period through a wealth of printed and manuscript sources, visual material, ephemera and video clips.

The period from 1950 to 1975 witnessed dramatic changes in society. There was the onset of Rock & Roll; the introduction of computers and credit cards; the boom of radio and television; and campaigns for black power, civil rights and women’s liberation. All around the world there were challenges to authority. By focusing on substantial collections of original archival material this digital resource provides primary sources to examine these issues in detail.

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UCL has trial access to Prosecuting the Holocaust: British investigations into Nazi war crimes, 1944-1949 until 14th August 2019. To access off-site please use Desktop@UCL Anywhere.

Drawn from the UK National Archives Prosecuting the Holocaust: British investigations into Nazi war crimes, 1944-1949 contains a wealth of information regarding the British government’s efforts to investigate and prosecute Nazi crimes during the period 1944-1949. The evidence gathered sheds light on almost every aspect of the Holocaust, from the concentration camp system to the mass murder of the “incurably sick” in psychiatric hospitals. More importantly, it gives a voice to the victims of these atrocities, many of whom testified about their experiences immediately after the war.

The files include materials from the WO 309 (War Office: Judge Advocate General’s Office; British Army of the Rhine War Crimes Group), WO 311 (War Office: Judge Advocate General’s Office; Military Deputy’s Department), and WO 235 (War Office: Judge Advocate General’s Office; War Crimes Case Files) series.

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