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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UCL now has access to Nineteenth Century Collections Online : Europe and Africa, Colonialism and Culture

By Sarah Gilmore, on 13 July 2022

UCL staff and students now have access to Nineteenth Century Collections Online : Europe and Africa, Colonialism and Culture from Gale.

Nineteenth Century Collections Online : Europe and Africa, Colonialism and Culture delivers monographs, manuscripts, and newspaper accounts covering issues of economics, world politics, and international strategy relating to Europe and Africa.

Key topics include:

• Partition of Africa and British imperial policy
• The Anglo-Boer War, 1899-1902
• Jameson Raid
• Geopolitical rivalry between Britain, France, and Germany
• Explorers’ use of rivers as highways to the interior of Africa
• Anglo-French relations and the Fashoda incident
• The Witwatersrand gold mining industry
• The dream of an Afrikaner utopia
• Colonial and customary law
• Chinese emigration
• Transnational evangelicalism

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UCL now has access to EIU Viewpoint

By Sarah Gilmore, on 12 July 2022

UCL staff and students now have access to the EIU Viewpoint from the Economist Intelligence Unit.

EIU Viewpoint combines the EIU’s expert political insights, policy analysis and economic outlook with forward-looking forecasts and proprietary data. The platform integrates the EIU’s forecasts for the global economy, daily insights, extensive country economic and political analysis, medium-term forecasts for 200 markets, long-term economic projections, industry analysis and data, commodity forecasts, macroeconomic datasets and proprietary ratings and rankings.

EIU Viewpoint combines a consistent global view of:

• Medium- and Long-term country forecasts:  The political and economic landscape for ~200 countries
• Forecasts for the global economy: Global and regional outlook spanning politics, economics and market-moving topics
• Daily insights: Daily insights on the developments that impact the future outlook
• Political and economic analysis: Executive summaries of country forecasts with examinations of key trends in each country
• Industry analysis and data:  The demand and supply outlook for 26 sectors in ~ 70 markets
• Commodity forecasts: The supply, demand and prices of 25 critical goods
• Macroeconomic indicators database: Economic data series with up to 320 variables per country on forecasts, as well as historic trends
• Proprietary ratings: Measuring the attractiveness of the business environment
• Thematic analysis: The cross-cutting issues that our experts expect to shape the global outlook

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UCL now has access to the World Cinema Collection from film streaming platform Films on Demand

By Sarah Gilmore, on 7 July 2022

UCL staff and students now have access to the World Cinema Collection from film streaming platform Films on Demand.

World Cinema Collection includes the best of the silent era, groundbreaking international directors, masterpieces from the mid-20th century, and contemporary films from around the world, including Africa, Asia, Europe, Latin America, the Caribbean, the Middle East, and North America

Highlights include:

• German film – Fritz Lang’s Metropolis and M, Josef Von Sternberg’s The Blue Angel, Walter Ruttmann’s Berlin: Symphony of a Metropolis, multiple films by F. W. Murnau and G. W. Pabst (including Pandora’s Box and Diary of a Lost Girl), as well as films by Paul Leni, Robert Siodmak, and Robert Wiene.
• French film – Georges Méliès’s seminal work A Trip to the Moon, as well as films by Jean Renoir (Rules of the Game and Diary of a Chambermaid), Luis Buñuel’s France-based work (including An Andalusian Dog, Tristana, and The Golden Age), and René Clair (The Million).
• Japanese film – 16 films by Akira Kurosawa (including Rashomon, Drunken Angel, and Stray Dog), 21 films by Kenji Mizoguchi (including The Story of the Last Chrysanthemums, Sansho the Bailiff, and Ugetsu), 16 films by Yasujirō Ozu (including Tokyo Story; I Was Born, But…; and Late Spring), and films by contemporary directors such as Juzo Itami and Kazuyoshi Okuyama.
• Soviet, Eastern European and Central Asian film – 10 films by Sergei Eisenstein (including Battleship Potemkin, October, Strike, and Ivan the Terrible), and award-winning contemporary films from Kyrgyzstan, Kazakhstan, Tajikistan, Yugoslavia, Bosnia, Croatia, Albania, Serbia, Macedonia, and Georgia (including When Father Was Away on Business, Fine Dead Girls, and A Wonderful Night in Split).
• American film – multiple titles from Buster Keaton (including The General and Steamboat Bill Jr.), D.W. Griffith (including The Birth of a Nation and Intolerance), Charlie Chaplin, and others representing the best of early American cinema, plus films by Douglas Sirk, Alfred Hitchcock, Frank Capra, Ida Lupino, Orson Welles, Busby Berkeley, and others covering the golden age of Hollywood.
• African film – Cairo Station by Youssef Chahine, six films by Ousmane Sembène (including Black Girl aka La Noire de…, and The Curse aka Xala), two films by Flora Gomes (Those Whom Death Refused and Tree of Blood) and acclaimed contemporary films such as The Night of Truth, Daughter of Keltoum, and Max and Mona.
• Italian film – classics from Vittorio De Sica (including The Bicycle Thief and Two Women), Federico Fellini (including La Dolce Vita and Variety Lights), and Roberto Rossellini (including Paisan; Rome, Open City; and Journey to Italy), as well as films by Luchino Visconti, Michelangelo Antonioni, and Giuseppe De Santis.
• Chinese-language film – the 1993 Cannes Palme d’Or winner Farewell My Concubine (Chen Kaige), Spring in a Small Town (Fei Mu), four films by King Hu (Dragon Gate Inn, Touch of Zen, The Fate of Lee Khan, and Raining in the Mountain), four of Zhang Yimou’s most famous films (The Story of Qiu Ju, Red Sorghum, and Ju Dou), as well as two films by Tsai Ming-Liang (The River and Vive L’Amour).
• Latin American film – classics from Glauber Rocha (including Black God, White Devil; Antonio Das Mortes; and Entranced Earth), 12 of Luis Buñuel’s Mexico-based productions (including Cannes Palme d’Or winner Viridiana, The Exterminating Angel, and Simon of the Desert), and award-winning contemporary films by directors from Mexico, Brazil, Columbia, Argentina, Uruguay, Peru, Cuba, Chile, and Ecuador.
• Turkish and Middle Eastern film – seven films by Turkish director Yılmaz Güney (including Cannes Palme d’Or winner The Way aka Yol, and Hope aka Umut) as well as award-winning contemporary films from Iran, Iraq, Lebanon, Egypt, Israel, and Palestine (including The Kite, The White Meadows, and Toll Booth).
• British film – the pre-Hollywood work of major British directors like Alfred Hitchcock (including The 39 Steps, The Lady Vanishes, and The Man Who Knew Too Much) and Michael Anderson (1984 and The Naked Edge).
• Indian film – 14 films by Satyajit Ray (including Pather Panchali, The World of Apu, Aparajito, and The Big City), as well as films by contemporary directors such as Adoor Gopalakrishnan, Partho Sen-Gupta, and Rajesh Shera.
• Caribbean film – contemporary films from Curaçao, Cuba, Haiti, and Trinidad and Tobago distributed by ArtMattan Productions, a leading distributor of films from the African diaspora.

All foreign language films are accompanied by English subtitles

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UCL now has access to American Proxy Wars: Korea and Vietnam, Global Perspectives, 1946-1975

By Sarah Gilmore, on 7 July 2022

UCL staff and students now have access to American Proxy Wars: Korea and Vietnam, Global Perspectives, 1946-1975

The Korean and Vietnam wars were two of the defining events of the 20th century. While the origins of both are rooted in their countries’ respective histories, much of the world regarded the wars as proxies for the larger Cold War between the United States and the Soviet Union. American Proxy Wars: Korea and Vietnam, Global Perspectives, 1946-1975 contains translated and English-language radio and television broadcasts, newspapers, periodicals, government documents, and books covering the Korean and Vietnamese conflicts.

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UCL now has access to the full content of Mass Observation Project: 1981-2009

By Sarah Gilmore, on 7 July 2022

UCL staff and students now have access to the full content of Mass Observation Project: 1981-2009, with the addition of modules 2 (1990s) & 3 (2000s).

Mass Observation Project: 1981-2009 provides digital access to a unique life-writing archive, capturing the everyday experiences, thoughts and opinions of people living through the turbulent final decades of the 20th century and the advent of the 21st century.

Writing in response to directives (questionnaires), hundreds of Mass Observers provide a unique insight into an extraordinary range of subjects, from the deeply personal (sex, family) to everyday life (shopping, holidays) to global affairs.

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UCL now has access to the Al-Ahram Digital Archive

By Sarah Gilmore, on 7 July 2022

UCL staff and students now have access to Al-Ahram Digital Archive, 1875-present.

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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UCL now has access to Nineteenth Century Collections Online : Asia and the West

By Sarah Gilmore, on 6 July 2022

UCL staff and students now have access to Nineteenth Century Collections Online : Asia and the West

Nineteenth Century Collections Online : Asia and the West 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.

The archive explores in detail 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.

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UCL now has access to Database of Latin Dictionaries (DLD), including Dictionary of Medieval Latin from British Sources (DMLBS)

By Sarah Gilmore, on 5 July 2022

UCL staff and students now have access to Database of Latin Dictionaries (DLD), including Dictionary of Medieval Latin from British Sources (DMLBS).

Because of its broad spectrum of dictionaries, the Database of Latin Dictionaries (DLD) offers an immediate overview of Latin vocabulary that no isolated dictionary can give. In order to cover all possible perspectives on Latin vocabulary, the DLD offers several kinds of dictionaries: defining and translating, thematic, medieval and early modern, including Dictionary of Medieval Latin from British Sources (DMLBS). DMLBS can also be searched as a separate resource.

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Oxford Bibliographies Online in African Studies, Chinese Studies, Education, and Urban Studies now available

By Anna Sansome, on 30 June 2022

UCL has purchased access to four more modules of Oxford Bibliographies Online – African Studies, Chinese Studies, Education and Urban Studies.

The aim of Oxford Bibliographies Online is to offer authoritative guides to the best available scholarship on a variety of academic topics. Written and reviewed by academic experts and updated to evolve with current scholarship, the guides combine high-level overviews with commentary, annotations and citations. UCL now has access to twenty nine of the subject areas covered by OBO:

African Studies
American Literature
Anthropology
Art History
Atlantic History
Biblical Studies
British and Irish Literature
Childhood Studies
Chinese Studies
Cinema & Media Studies
Classics
Communication
Criminology
Education
Geography
International Law
International Relations
Islamic Studies
Latin American Studies
Linguistics
Literary & Critical Theory
Medieval Studies
Philosophy
Political Science
Psychology
Renaissance & Reformation
Sociology
Urban Studies
Victorian Literature

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