UCL now has access to Gallup Analytics

By Sarah Gilmore, on 5 September 2024

UCL now has access to Gallup Analytics

Gallup Analytics contains unique public opinion data and analysis compiled by Gallup. It includes answers to more than 125,000 questions, and responses from more than 3.5 million people interviewed in the Unites States since 1935.

The platform can be used to:

• perform detailed searches on hundreds of U.S. and global metrics
• examine data by demographic and socio-economic groups, including income, education, age and gender
• export data to create custom data tables, trends, charts and scatter plots

Gallup Analytics has three sections:

• Gallup Brain (historic surveys going back to 1935)
• Gallup World Poll (surveys from 160+ countries since 2005)
• Gallup Daily Tracking (daily surveys across the US since 2008)

Users can access Gallup’s U.S. Daily tracking and World Poll data to compare residents’ responses region by region and nation by nation to questions on topics such as economic conditions, government and business, health and wellbeing, infrastructure, and education.

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UCL now has access to SocIndex with full text

By Sarah Gilmore, on 14 August 2024

UCL now has access to SocIndex with full text

SocIndex with full text from EBSCO is a sociology research database, it features:

• more than 2.1 million records with subject headings from a 20,000+ term sociological thesaurus designed by subject experts and expert lexicographers
• full text for more than 860 journals dating back to 1908
• full text for 830 books and monographs
• full text of over 16,800 conference papers

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UCL now has access to JSTOR Primary Sources

By Sarah Gilmore, on 13 August 2024

• Global Plants : the world’s largest database of digitized plant specimens
• 19th Century British Pamphlets : contains the most significant British pamphlets from the 19th century held in research libraries in the United Kingdom
• Struggles for Freedom: Southern Africa : focusing on the complex and varied liberation struggles in the region, with an emphasis on Botswana, Mozambique, Namibia, South Africa, and Zimbabwe
• World Heritage Sites: Africa : links visual, contextual, and spatial documentation of African heritage sites

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UCL has trial access to Associations Unlimited database

By Sarah Gilmore, on 8 August 2024

UCL has trial access to the Associations Unlimited database from Gale until 10th September 2024.

The Associations Unlimited database comprises of access to:

• Encyclopedia of Associations: International Organizations : covers multinational and national membership organizations from Afghanistan to Zimbabwe – including U.S.-based organizations with a binational or multinational membership.
• Encyclopedia of Associations: National Organizations of the U.S. : comprehensive source of detailed information concerning nonprofit American membership organizations of national scope. Covers more than 23,000 organizations in categories such as trade, business, and commercial; legal, governmental, public administration and many more
• Encyclopedia of Associations: Regional, State and Local Organizations : provides comprehensive information on associations and societies that are organized and function at the regional (both interstate and intrastate), state, county, city, neighborhood, and local levels. Coverage includes all 50 states, the District of Columbia, and the U.S. territories of Guam, Puerto Rico, and the Virgin Islands.
• National Directory of Nonprofit Organizations : comprehensive guide to the growing nonprofit world designed for marketers, sales staff, and nonprofit professionals. Provides contact and basic factual information on the largest nonprofit organizations in the United States.

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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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