Trial access to Cambridge Shakespeare: The Works and Worlds of Shakespeare Online

By Sarah Gilmore, on 10 January 2023

UCL has trial access to Cambridge Shakespeare: The Works and Worlds of Shakespeare Online until 31st March 2023.

Cambridge Shakespeare hosts prize-winning content from Cambridge University Press, with integrated playtexts and notes, reference material and related multimedia resources.

The online platform includes:

• The complete bestselling New Cambridge Shakespeare series (41 volumes)
• The New Cambridge Shakespeare: The Early Quartos series (7 volumes)
• Shakespeare in Production (14 volumes)
• The award-winning The Cambridge Guide to the Worlds of Shakespeare; over 300 transhistorical, international and interdisciplinary essays on Shakespeare and contexts
• A new version of Emma Smith’s The Cambridge Shakespeare Guide, exclusive to Cambridge Shakespeare
• Multimedia resources for Shakespeare’s works, curated by the Folger Shakespeare Library
• The platform will be updated with new content as soon as it is published
• New for 2022 Shakespeare Survey – with access to all editions.
  • Each volume is devoted to a theme, or play, or group of plays; each also contains a section of reviews of that year’s textual and critical studies, and of the year’s major British performances. The virtues of accessible scholarship and a keen interest in performance, from Shakespeare’s time to our own, have characterised the journal from the start.
  • The books are illustrated with a variety of Shakespearean images and production photographs.

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Trial access to History Commons: Weimar and Nazi Germany

By Sarah Gilmore, on 5 January 2023

UCL has trial access to History Commons: Weimar and Nazi Germany until 3rd February 2023.

History Commons: Weimar and Nazi Germany is the only digital English language primary source archive on Germany that spans the entire interwar period from the 1918 armistice to the outbreak of World War II. It includes nearly 600,000 pages of declassified, exclusive, previously undigitized files sent to the UK Foreign Office from embassies, covert contacts, and other sources.

History Commons: Weimar and Nazi Germany documents an intense time of hyperinflation, political extremism, and seizures of power. It details the aftermath of World War I, recovery following the war, the Great Depression, and Hitler’s rise, providing contemporaneous accounts, documents, reports, and correspondence of how Western democracies struggled with fascism and autocracy.

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Trial access to Black Ballad

By Sarah Gilmore, on 14 December 2022

UCL has trial access to Black Ballad until 17th January 2023.

Black Ballad is the only women’s media publication and data operation in Britain exclusively dedicated to telling the stories and sharing the experiences of Black women in Britain and the wider diaspora.

Society is becoming more and more conscious of the different lived experiences of Black women and the wider Black community, not just because of race but due to the intersection of gender, class, sexuality, ability and other identities. Black Ballad explores race, race relations and Black identities in academia, chronicling Black women’s experiences as they have navigated the changing landscape of the world’s political, social and economic experiences that include Covid-19, Black Lives Matter, health inequality, the ethnic pay gap, Queer Rights and more.

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UCL now has access to Hedge Fund data within Preqin

By Sarah Gilmore, on 14 December 2022

UCL students and staff now have access to Hedge Fund data within Preqin

Preqin tracks the largest organisations that invest in Hedge Funds and their Assets under Management figures, Investment vehicle launches from different geographies globally, plus Investor Allocations.

The Hedge Fund data includes:

• Investor coverage : 7,227
• Fund coverage: 47,509
• Active firm coverage: 9,236
• Performance coverage: 33, 553
• Fundraising coverage: 28,065

With this data users can track key metrics such as Monthly Performance of some funds, and also generate benchmarks which can be customised

For more information please see the guide within Preqin, accessible via the ‘Help’ drop down,

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UCL now has access to Orbis, Orbis M&A and BankFocus

By Sarah Gilmore, on 8 December 2022

UCL students and staff now have access to Orbis, Orbis M&A and BankFocus from Bureau van Dijk / Moody’s

Orbis: Bureau van Dijk ’s global database with information on over 450 million public and private companies including, banks, vessels, insurance, and industrial companies covering 220+ countries. This product includes all the data which was previously in Amadeus and Osiris. These two products will be retiring in the new year.

Orbis M&A: Bureau van Dijk’s solution for searching and analyzing intelligence on global mergers and acquisitions, containing M&A, IPO, private equity, and venture capital deals and rumours

BankFocus: Covering global information on over 47,000+ of the world’s public and private banks

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UCL access to UpToDate to cease

By Sarah Gilmore, on 23 November 2022

UCL’s access to UpToDate will cease on 30th November 2022. All registered users should login before this date to redeem any accrued CPD points

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Trial access to Archive Finder

By Sarah Gilmore, on 17 November 2022

UCL has trial access to Archive Finder including ArchivesUSA and NIDS UK/Ireland until 16th December 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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Trial access to JFLIX Video Streaming Platform

By Sarah Gilmore, on 16 November 2022

UCL has trial access to JFLIX until 15th December 2022.

JFLIX is a video streaming platform, created in partnership with Movie Discovery, dedicated to award winning films on various topics dealing with Judaism and Israel. From Jewish history through biographies of leaders, along with films about Israeli society and culture. These films discuss questions such as Jewish identity and coping courageously with moral dilemmas.
JFLIX features 356 movies: see the full list on the website.

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UCL now has access to APA PsycTherapy via Ovid

By Sarah Gilmore, on 9 November 2022

UCL students and staff now have access to APA PsycTherapy via Ovid.  APA PsycTherapy is a clinical and counseling video training library featuring hundreds of videos of therapists and patients in counseling sessions.

The database includes:

• Sessions conducted by 150 master therapists
• Nearly 250 topics and disorders and over 100 therapeutic approaches
• Approaches including integrated behavioral health care, CBT, and acceptance and commitment therapy
• Topics including addiction, anxiety, phobias, relationship issues, and depression
• Synchronized and downloadable transcripts
• Playlists of favorites and sharable video clips
• Searchable content by topic, therapeutic approach, and therapist
• Searchable simultaneously with other APA resources on Ovid

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Trial access to PressReader

By Sarah Gilmore, on 8 November 2022

UCL has trial access to PressReader until 4th December 2022. To access select ‘Sign In’ and then ‘Library or Group’ and search for University College London. You will be then be directed to the UCL Single Sign on. Use via the app is also included in the trial, download here

PressReader provides access to more than 7,000 of the world’s top newspapers and magazines as soon as they’re available on shelves. Titles include:

• The Guardian
• Newsweek
• Daily Mail
• Der Tagesspiegel
• Libération
• China Daily
• La Razon

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