UCL now has access to Orbis data within WRDS (Wharton Research Data Services)

By Sarah Gilmore, on 9 October 2024

UCL users now have access to Orbis data within WRDS (Wharton Research Data Services).

Orbis covers public and private companies, banks, non-banking financial institutions, insurance companies, marine vessels, sole proprietorships, funds, individuals, shareholders, ultimate owners,
beneficial owners, and subsidiaries.

Access is via 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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UCL now has access to Orbis Intellectual Property (Orbis IP)

By Sarah Gilmore, on 9 October 2024

UCL users now have access to Orbis Intellectual Property (Orbis IP).

Orbis IP is a database of over 145 million patents, linked to detailed company information and ownership structures.

Features:

• Linking 145 million patents to over 2.3 million companies
• Tracking M&A transactions so you can monitor patent ownership overtime
• Review corporate ownership structures of patent owners
• 82 million patent valuations for all granted live patents
• Tracking valuation and technology trends over time
• Global litigations linked to companies and patents

Benefits:

• Uncover patent portfolios owned by subsidiaries in a corporate group
• Assess the trends and commercial appeal of a new technology
• Benchmark and measure how innovative companies are by region
• Interpret your research in seconds using our data visualisation tools
• Understand the company and shareholders owning a patent
• See innovation patterns using up-to-date acquisitions and M&A data
• Identify patent trends through technology landscape and whitespace analyses
• Benchmark industries, companies, regions and countries
• Quickly identify the leading innovators in any technology field

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Trial access to Film & Television Literature Index with Full Text from EBSCO

By Sarah Gilmore, on 24 September 2024

UCL has trial access to Film & Television Literature Index with Full Text until 22nd October 2024.

Film & Television Literature Index with Full Text overs the spectrum of film and television studies, providing comprehensive collection of full text from scholarly and popular sources. In addition to the full-text journals, the database also includes Variety movie reviews dating back to 1914.

Content Includes:

• More than 100 active full-text journals and magazines
• More than 70 active full-text, peer-reviewed journals
• More than 60 active full-text, peer-reviewed journals with no embargo
• More than 65,000 images from the MPTV Image Archive

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UCL now has access to additional HeinOnline databases

By Sarah Gilmore, on 5 September 2024

UCL now has access to HeinOnline Intellectual Property Law Collection and HeinOnline Philip C. Jessup Library in addition to our existing HeinOnline databases

HeinOnline Intellectual Property Law Collection is a collection of intellectual property material including legislative histories, treatises, documents, books, periodicals, and more relating to copyrights, patents, and trademarks.

HeinOnline Philip C. Jessup Library is an online collection of the materials of the Philip C. Jessup International Law Moot Court Competition

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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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