Trial access to two collections of Hebrew ebooks and ejournals

By Anna Sansome, on 31 July 2024

UCL currently has trials running with two online services offering access to ebooks and ejournals in Hebrew. The trials are running until 31st August 2024.

PSIK provides access to over 4,500 Hebrew ebooks (including fiction and poetry) and 30+ magazines and journals from major Israeli publishers. As well as signing in via UCL, you will need to register with the platform to read the full text.

The Kotar Library provides access to Israeli-published academic works on topics ranging from Israel studies to Judaics, Jewish history, humanities, social sciences and more.

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UCL has trial access to PatSeer

By Sarah Gilmore, on 25 July 2024

UCL has trial access to PatSeer until 6th November 2024. This trial is for current UCL students and staff only and access is limited to 5 users at a time.

To access:

• go to PatSeer
• add your UCL email address to the username field in the login tab
• you will then receive and authentication code via email.

PatSeer is an AI-driven Patent Search and Intelligence Platform which includes more than 165M patents across 108+ countries.

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UCL has trial access to ZEDHIA

By Sarah Gilmore, on 25 July 2024

UCL has trial access to ZEDHIA until 10th October 2024. Please note that access is restricted to 3 concurrent users.  For offsite access please first login to Desktop@UCL Anywhere or the UCL VPN

ZEDHIA features digitalized full text about the history of Central Europe’s business, economy and genealogy. The 28,543 volumes and 1.3 million pages of the publications comprised in ZEDHIA cover the history of Austrian business from 1789 until 2003.

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UCL has trial access to Muteferriqa : Ottoman Turkish Discovery Portal

By Sarah Gilmore, on 25 July 2024

UCL now has access to additional Gale Primary Source databases

By Sarah Gilmore, on 11 July 2024

UCL now has access to additional Gale Primary Source databases.

The new collections are:

• Archives of Sexuality & Gender Part VI: Community and Identity in North America
• Environmental History: Conservation and Public Policy in America, 1870–1980 and Colonial Policy and Global Development, 1896-1992
• History of Disabilities: Disabilities in Society, Seventeenth to Twentieth Century
• Indigenous Peoples of North America, Part I and Part II: The Indian Rights Association, 1882-1986
• Mail on Sunday Historical Archive, 1982-2011
• Refugees, Relief, and Resettlement: The Early Cold War and Decolonization and Forced Migration and World War II
• Power to the People: Counterculture, Social Movements, & the Alternative Press, Nineteenth to Twenty-first Century

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UCL now has access to Video Data Bank (VDB) Streaming

By Sarah Gilmore, on 9 July 2024

UCL now has access to Video Data Bank (VDB) Streaming. Access is for current UCL students and staff only.

VDB Streaming launched in 2024 by Video Data Bank at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago, offering access to a vast collection of video art and experimental moving image work by and about contemporary artists. The VDB’s collection has grown to include the work of more than 600 artists and 6,000 video art titles.

The Video Data Bank is committed to:

• fostering awareness and scholarship of the history and contemporary practice of video and media art
• serving the artists represented in the VDB collection
• providing access to the collection
• ensuring the future of the collection for generations to come.

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Trial access to The Social History Archive – including the Bookseller archive

By Sarah Gilmore, on 5 July 2024

UCL has trial access to The Social History Archive – including the Bookseller archive – until 20th September 2024. Access is via the UCL single sign on, using your UCL username and password.

The Social History Archive is the largest online archive of British and Irish records, providing access to 3.5 billion transcribed records and 375 million digitised scans of original records.

The archive features:

• Largest online archive of British and Irish records.
• Comprehensive collection of British and Irish census, military and crime records online.
• In association with The National Archives, online access to the 1921 Census of England & Wales.
• Over 30 million newspaper pages and 1,000 titles from the British Library’s holdings – this includes the full backfile of the Bookseller.

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UCL now has access to Literary Studies (AM Scholar)

By Sarah Gilmore, on 13 June 2024

UCL now has access to Literary Studies (AM Scholar)

Literary Studies provides literary manuscripts, rare printed works and personal papers of a range of leading literary figures from Britain and America, as well as access to a goldmine of rare and obscure literary texts and genres.

The below authors and literary figures are included in this collection,

• Henry David Thoreau
• Robert Browning
• George Eliot
• Anthony Trollope
• William Thackeray
• Robert Southey and Caroline Bowles
• Elizabeth Gaskell
• The Brontës
• Mary Elizabeth Braddon
• Margaret Oliphant
• Thomas Gray
• Felicia Hemans
• Geraldine Jewsbury
• Mary Tighe
• Lady Sydney Morgan
• Elizabeth Inchbald
• Gothic writers such as Matthew “Monk” Lewis, Ann Radcliffe, Caroline Lamb
• Popular female fiction writers of the 19th century, including Matilda Betham-Edwards, Florence Marryat, Helen Mathers, Charlotte Riddell, Dora Russell, Adeline Sergeant and Emma Jane Worboise

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UCL has trial access to FSTA – Food Science and Technology Abstracts with Full Text (EBSCO)

By Sarah Gilmore, on 12 June 2024

UCL has trial access to FSTA – Food Science and Technology Abstracts with Full Text via EBSCO until 11th July 2024.

FSTA – Food Science and Technology Abstracts with Full Text is a specialized full-text database covering scientific and technological literature relating to food, beverages and nutrition, produced in collaboration with a team of experts within IFIS.

In addition to the core areas of food science, food technology and nutrition, FSTA with Full Text includes food-focused content across a host of related fields, including:

• Biotechnology
• Food safety
• Omics technologies
• Pet foods
• Sport science
• Sustainability

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Access to European Pharmacopoeia Online

By Anna Sansome, on 6 June 2024

UCL staff and students can now access the European Pharmacopoeia Online. Please contact the e-resources team to request access.

The European Pharmacopoeia is the primary source of official quality standards for medicines and their ingredients in Europe. The standards provide a scientific basis for the quality control of a product throughout its life cycle, supporting the pharmaceutical industry and healthcare systems.

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