Trial access to Judaica Digital Collections (East View)

By Sarah Gilmore, on 12 November 2025

UCL has trial access to Judaica Digital Collections until 20th December 2025.

Judaica Digital Collections consists of:

• Anti-Semitic Organizations: Union of the Russian People
• Jewish Emigration from Ukraine
• Jewish Emigration from the USSR
• Jewish Pogroms in Kyiv, 1905
• Jewish Societies in Ukraine, 1857-1929
• Mendel Beilis Trial Papers
• Promoting Jewish Education
• Victims of Pogroms

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Trial access to The Watchman, Church Times, Yorkshire Post, Kent Messenger and Daily Worker/Morning Star (UKPressOnline)

By Sarah Gilmore, on 6 November 2025

UCL has trial access to UKPressOnline until 5th December 2025.

In addition to UCL’s existing access to the Fascist Press collection, the UKPressOnline trial features access to:

• Church Times
• Daily Worker/Morning Star
• Kent Messenger
• The Watchman
• Yorkshire Post

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Trial access to OnArchitecture

By Sarah Gilmore, on 28 October 2025

UCL has trial access to OnArchitecture until 22nd December 2025.

OnArchitecture is an audiovisual archive of architecture and the world in which we live. Consisting of a collection of 700+ videos it offers a deep and detailed panorama of the world’s main authors, works, experiences and issues related to the field of architecture.

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UCL now has access to additional Gale Primary Source databases

By Sarah Gilmore, on 21 October 2025

UCL users now have access to additional Gale Primary Source databases. These are:

• British Library Newspapers Part 7: Southeast Asia, 1806-1980s
• Latino Social and Political Culture and History: Perspectives on the Chicano Movement
• Political Extremism and Radicalism, Parts 1-3 : Far-Right and Left Political Groups in the U.S., Europe, and Australia in the Twentieth Century, Far-Right Groups in America and Global Communist and Socialist Movements
• Times Educational Supplement Historical Archive, 1910-2000

These can all be cross-searched within Gale Primary Sources

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UCL now has access to SpringerMaterials

By Sarah Gilmore, on 10 October 2025

UCL users now have access to SpringerMaterials which provides curated data and advanced functionalities to support research in materials science, physics, chemistry, engineering, and other related fields.

Features:

• A comprehensive database covering multiple material classes, property types, and applications
• Enhanced data visualization features display interactive crystal structures, data tables, and phase diagrams with export options for further analysis
• Search functions optimized for materials science like elemental composition or chemical structure searching to quickly find material property data
• Trusted and curated resource with thousands of materials science experts ensuring high data quality

Content includes:

• Landolt-Börnstein Archive
• MSI Eureka
• SpringerMaterials Interactive

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Trial access to Pan African Magazines via Africa Commons

By Sarah Gilmore, on 2 October 2025

UCL has trial access Pan African Magazines via Africa Commons until 30th November 2025.

Spanning 1954 to 1991, Pan African Magazines recovers rare content from across English-speaking Africa The collection features Drum publication’s archive with all region-specific editions of Drum, each with its own editorial voice and local focus:

• Drum (South Africa): 1974–1983
• Drum (isiZulu): 1963–1964
• Drum (East Africa): 1957–1991
• Drum (Federation): 1960–1961
• Drum (West Africa): 1954–1957
• Drum (Ghana): 1958–1972
• Drum (Nigeria): 1958–1982
• Drum (International): 1966

While each edition addressed its regional issues, they all tackled the broader themes of decolonization, civil rights, urban Black identity, and popular culture. With less than 10 percent overlap across editions,

Also included are:

• True Love (East Africa): 1981–1991
• True Love (South Africa): 1977-1983
• Trust (Nigeria): 1971-1976

These magazines spotlighted the daily lives of African women—covering relationships, beauty, health, parenting, and home life, themes largely absent from mainstream media.

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Hispanic American Periodicals Index (HAPI) now available in EBSCOhost

By Sarah Gilmore, on 30 September 2025

UCL students and staff can now access Hispanic American Periodicals Index (HAPI) within EBSCOhost and cross search with our other EBSCO databases.

Hispanic American Periodicals Index is a bibliographic database produced by the Latin American Institute at the University of California, Los Angeles. The database provides citations to the contents of scholarly journals published around the world on Latin America and the Caribbean since the late 1960s

Examples of Key Journals Indexed
Latin American Research Review (US)
Latin American Perspectives (US)
Latin American Politics and Society (US)
Latino Studies (US)
The Journal of Latin American and Caribbean Anthropology (US)
Ancient Mesoamerica (US)
Colonial Latin American Review (US)
Hispanic American Historical Review (US)
Journal of Latin American Studies (UK)
European Review of Latin American and Studies (Netherlands)
New West Indian Guide (Netherlands)
Journal of Politics in Latin America (Germany)
Revista Iberoamericana (Spain)
Anales de Antropología (Mexico)
Política y Gobierno (Mexico)
Anales del Instituto de Investigaciones Estéticas (Mexico)
Casa de las Américas (Cuba)
Conjunto (Cuba)
Caribbean Quarterly (Jamaica)
Revista Andina (Peru)
Nueva Sociedad (Argentina)
Desarrollo Económico (Argentina)
Estudos Feministas (Brazil)
Revista Brasileira de Economia (Brazil)
Revista Brasileira de História (Brazil)
Historia Crítica (Colombia)
Anuario Colombiano de Historia Social y de la Cultura (Colombia)
CEPAL Review (Chile)
Anuario de Estudios Centroamericanos (Costa Rica

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Trial access to LGBTQ+ Source from EBSCO

By Sarah Gilmore, on 19 September 2025

UCL has new trial access to LGBTQ+ Source from EBSCO until 31st October 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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New titles within East View’s Global Press Archive

By Sarah Gilmore, on 18 September 2025

UCL has access to the following titles within East View’s Global Press Archive, these are a combination of purchased and open access collections:

• Akhbar Filastin Digital Archive, 1963-1967
• Al-Ahram Digital Archive, 1876-2024
• Argumenty i fakty Digital Archive, 1983-2023
• Choya Shinbun Digital Archive, 1875-1889
• Daily Observer Digital Archive, 1981-2016
• Demokratychna Ukraina Digital Archive, 1992-2020
• Die Transvaler Digital Archive, 1938-1987
• El Comercio Digital Archive, 1839-2023
• El Imparcial Digital Archive, 1918-1979
• El Moudjahid Digital Archive, 1957-1962
• El Mundo Digital Archive, 1919-1990
• Estoniia Digital Archive, 1984-2009
• Holos Ukrainy Digital Archive, 1991-2022
• Imperial Russian Newspapers, 1767-1918
• Independence Evening Post Digital Archive, 1947-1995
• Independent and Revolutionary Mexican Newspapers, 1807-1972
• Izvestiia Digital Archive, 1917-2023
• Late Qing and Republican-Era Chinese Newspapers, 1911-1949
• Literaturnaia Gazeta Digital Archive, 1929-2023
• Middle Eastern and North African Newspapers, 1870-2021
• Moscow News Digital Archive, 1930-2014
• Narodna Hazeta Digital Archive, 1990-2009
• Noticias Gráficas Digital Archive, 1943-1949
• Novaia Gazeta Digital Archive, 1993-2023
• Novoe Russkoe Slovo Digital Archive, 1917-2010
• Pravda Digital Archive, 1912-2023
• South Asian Newspapers, 1850-1992
• Southeast Asian Newspapers, 1839-1976
• Sovetskaia Kul’tura Digital Archive, 1929-2023
• Za Vil’nu Ukrainu Digital Archive, 1990-2007

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Preqin datasets now available in WRDS

By Sarah Gilmore, on 28 August 2025

UCL students and staff can now access several Preqin datasets within WRDS, in addition to accessing within Preqin Pro.

The datasets are:

• Preqin Fund Cashflows
• Preqin Venture Capital and Buyout Deals
• Preqin GP Fund Managers
• Preqin LP Investors

To request a WRDS account: select the Register tab, complete the Account Request form to create a username and password and wait for a confirmation access email (this can take a few days).

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