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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UCL now has access to Electronic Enlightenment: Letters & Lives

By Sarah Gilmore, on 23 May 2024

UCL now has access to Electronic Enlightenment: Letters & Lives 

With approx 80,000 letters and documents and 10,300 correspondents, EE is a collection of edited correspondence from the early modern period, linking people across Europe, the Americas and Asia from the early 17th to the mid-19th century.

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UCL now has access to the Eastern European LGBTQ Collection from East View

By Sarah Gilmore, on 14 May 2024

UCL now has access to the Eastern European LGBTQ Collection from East View

The Eastern European LGBTQ Collection is a collection of ephemera materials documenting LGBTQ movements in several Eastern European countries. With the resurgence of conservative political activism in Eastern Europe, which embraces and emphasizes traditionalist social, sexual, and gender norms, LGBTQ persons and LGBTQ activism are largely rejected and repudiated for undermining national values and social cohesion.

This collection of ephemera, (brochures, clothing items, booklets, flyers, etc.) offers important insights into LGBTQ activism in Eastern Europe and the Balkans in the past decade.

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Trial access to Codices Vossiani Latini Online

By Anna Sansome, on 8 May 2024

UCL has trial access to Codices Vossiani Latini Online until 31st May 2024.

Codices Vossiani Latini Online contains all 363 codices which form the world-famous Latin part of Isaac Vossius’ manuscript collection held at Leiden University Library. Isaac Vossius (1618-1689) was a classical philologist and collector of manuscripts, maps, atlases and printed works. The Codices Vossiani Latini comprises a large number of early medieval manuscripts and major sources of many classic texts, including the oldest sources of Lucretius’ De natura rerum and of Cicero’s philosophical works. The manuscript collection is enriched by detailed information drawn from by K. A. de Meyier’s catalogues of the codices, providing essential information on the content, context, and physical appearance of each codex.

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UCL now has access to Bloomberg.com / Bloomberg News

By Sarah Gilmore, on 25 April 2024

UCL now has access to Bloomberg.com , Bloomberg’s news content. Access is for UCL students and staff only.

To signin:

• Visit Bloomberg.com 
• Enter your @ucl.ac.uk email address, and click “Continue”.
• Sign in via the UCL Single Sign-On page
• You will be redirected back to Bloomberg.com with full access.

Access includes:

• provides unlimited access to Bloomberg News content
• Unlimited access to Bloomberg.com and the Bloomberg app
• Unlimited streaming of live Bloomberg TV
• Unlimited access to live radio, podcasts and narrated articles
• Subscriber-only content and newsletters

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Trial access to Public Information Online (PIO)

By Sarah Gilmore, on 25 April 2024

UCL has trial access to Public Information Online (PIO) until 24th May 2024.  For offsite access please first login to Desktop@UCL Anywhere or the UCL VPN

Public Information Online (PIO) is an archive of searchable Parliamentary and Official documents as PDFs. It contains publications from the Westminster Parliament, Scottish Parliament, Northern Ireland Assembly, Welsh Parliament (Senedd), Scottish Government and also Non-Parliamentary material.  It features Bills, Command Papers, House of Commons Papers, House of Lords Papers, Hansard, Scottish Parliament Papers, the SP Official Report and Scottish Government Papers.

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UCL has access to additional ProQuest and Alexander Street databases

By Sarah Gilmore, on 23 April 2024

UCL now has access to an increased selection of ProQuest and Alexander Street databases. Access is initially until April 2025.

New ProQuest databases:

• Children’s Magazine Archive, 1866-2020
• Colonial Legacies: Empire and Commonwealth Periodicals
• Country Life Archive
• Historical Newspapers: Louisville Courier Journal 1830-2000
• Historical Newspapers: Minneapolis Star Tribune 1867-2001
• Historical Newspapers: St. Petersburg/Tampa Bay Times
• History Vault: World War II: U.S. Documents on Planning, Operations, Intelligence, Axis War Crimes, and Refugees
• House of Commons Parliamentary Papers – 21st Century Module 4 (2022-2023)
• Periodicals Index Online
• Trench Journals and Unit Magazines of the First World War

New Alexander Street databases:

• Queer Pasts
• Social Work Online
• Trade and Globalization Studies Online
• Twentieth Century North American Drama, 2nd Edition

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