Access to all Oxford Research Encyclopedias now available

By Anna Sansome, on 26 October 2023

UCL now has access to all currently available OREs, covering 25 disciplines across the humanities, social sciences, and sciences.

The new additions to our access are the Oxford Encyclopedia of Social Work and the Oxford Research Encyclopedias of

• Business and Management
• Global Public Health
• Neuroscience
• Physics
• Planetary Science
• Religion

The Oxford Research Encyclopedias (OREs) are comprehensive collections of in-depth overview articles on both foundational and cutting-edge research topics within a particular discipline. Written, peer-reviewed and updated by leading scholars in the field, the articles are designed to be read in 30 minutes or less.
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UCL now has access to Weimar and Nazi Germany : History Commons

By Sarah Gilmore, on 24 October 2023

UCL now has access to Weimar and Nazi Germany : History Commons.

Weimar and Nazi Germany : History Commons 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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UCL has trial access to Accessible Archives: Colonial Newspapers Collection

By Sarah Gilmore, on 24 October 2023

UCL has trial access to Accessible Archives: Colonial Newspapers Collection until 23rd November 2023.

This collection is in three parts:

• South Carolina Newspapers, 1732-1780 , comprising of: The Charlestown Gazette; The South Carolina Gazette; The Gazette of the State of South Carolina; The South Carolina Gazette and Country Journal; Supplement to South Carolina Gazette and Country Journal; The South Carolina and American General Gazette; and Supplement to South Carolina and American General Gazette

• The Pennsylvania Gazette, 1728-1815

• The Virginia Gazette, 1736-1780

This collection is ideal for researching how daily issues, events, and individuals affected the lives of American colonists during a crucial period in American history with firsthand stories and news reports on life in Colonial and Early Republic America.

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UCL now has access to Decolonization: The Politics of Independence in former Colonial Territories (Gale Primary Sources)

By Sarah Gilmore, on 12 October 2023

UCL now has access to Decolonization: The Politics of Independence in former Colonial Territories, this archive can be cross-searched with other Gale/Cengage primary sources in Gale Primary Sources

Decolonization: The Politics of Independence in former Colonial Territories brings together material from within former British colonies and Commonwealth nations, alongside some from former French and Portuguese territories, to provide valuable primary source material created for local audiences by local actors during a period of enormous global change. After the Second World War, decolonization movements around the world gathered pace, and from the small port colony of Aden to the vast Indian sub-continent, new borders were set, and new nations built.

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UCL now has access to AM Explorer : Adam Matthew’s entire primary source collection

By Sarah Gilmore, on 23 August 2023

UCL now has access to Adam Matthew’s portfolio of 80 primary sources collections via AM Explorer

UCL students and staff can now access millions of pages of primary source collections across the entire portfolio of AM, spanning content from the 15th-21st centuries. The archives are:

• African American Communities
• Age of Exploration
• America in World War Two
• American Indian Histories and Cultures
• American History, 1493-1945
• American Indian Newspapers
• American West
• Apartheid South Africa, 1948-1980
• Central Asia, Persia and Afghanistan 1834-1922
• Children’s Literature and Culture
• China, America and the Pacific
• China: Culture and Society
• China: Trade, Politics and Culture 1793-1980
• Church Missionary Society Periodicals
• Colonial America
• Colonial Caribbean
• Confidential Print: Africa, 1834-1966
• Confidential Print: Latin America, 1833-1969
• Confidential Print: Middle East, 1839-1969
• Confidential Print: North America, 1824-1961
• Defining Gender
• Early Modern England
• East India Company
• Eighteenth Century Drama
• Eighteenth Century Journals
• Empire Online
• Ethnomusicology
• Everyday Life and Women in America, c1800-1920
• First World War Portal
• Foreign Office Files for China, 1919-1980
• Food and Drink in History
• Foreign Office Files for India, Pakistan and Afghanistan
• Foreign Office Files for Japan, 1919-1952
• Foreign Office Files for Southeast Asia, 1963-1980
• Foreign Office Files for the Middle East, 1971-1981
• Frontier Life
• The Gilded Age and Progressive Era
• Gender: Identity and Social Change
• Global Commodities
• India Raj and Empire
• Interwar Culture
• J. Walter Thompson: Advertising America
• Jewish Life in America, c1654-1954
• Leisure, Travel and Mass Culture
• Life at Sea
• Literary Manuscripts Berg
• Literary Manuscripts Leeds
• Literary Print Culture
• London Low Life
• Macmillan Cabinet Papers, 1957-1963
• Market Research and American Business, 1935-1965
• Mass Observation Online
• Mass Observation Project
• Medical Services and Warfare
• Medieval Family Life
• Medieval Travel Writing
• Meiji Japan
• Migration to New Worlds
• Nineteenth Century Literary Society
• Perdita Manuscripts, 1500-1700
• Popular Culture in Britain and America, 1950-1975
• Popular Medicine in America, 1800-1900
• Poverty, Philanthropy and Social Conditions in Victorian Britain
• Race Relations in America
• Romanticism: Life, Literature and Landscape
• Service Newspapers of World War Two
• Sex and Sexuality
• Shakespeare in Performance
• Shakespeare’s Globe Archive
• Slavery, Abolition and Social Justice
• Socialism on Film
• The Grand Tour
• The Nixon Years, 1969-1974
• Trade Catalogues and the American Home
• Travel Writing, Spectacle and World History
• Victorians on Film
• Victorian Popular Culture
• Virginia Company Archives
• Women in The National Archives
• World’s Fairs

Access via AM Explorer.

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Trial access to UKPressOnline

By Anunciata Rodriguez, on 8 August 2023

UCL has trial access to UKPressOnline until 07^th Sep 2023.

UKPressOnline is the gateway to more than two million pages of the 19th-21st Centuries’ newspapers, from 1835 to today, all as published on the day they were published and all searchable by name, word, phrase and date.

Titles included are:

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New East View resources

By Sarah Gilmore, on 27 July 2023

UCL now has access to additional East View resources. These are:

Newspaper archives:

• Demokratychna Ukraina Digital Archive 1992-2020 ; view record in East View Global Press Archive
• Holos Ukrainy Digital Archive 1991-2022 ; view record in East View Global Press Archive
• Moscow News Digital Archive 1930-2014 ; view record in East View Global Press Archive
• Narodna Hazeta Digital Archive 1990-2009 ; view record in East View Global Press Archive
• Za Vil’nu Ukrainu Digital Archive 1990-2007 ; view record in East View Global Press Archive

Magazine / journal archives:

• Seans Digital Archive 1990-2022
• Social Sciences Digital Archive 1970-2022

Ukrainian ephemera:

• Ukrainian ephemera: Parliamentary Elections, 2014
• Ukrainian ephemera: Parliamentary Elections, 2019
• Ukrainian ephemera: Presidential Elections, 2019

E-book collections:

• East View Archive Editions: Slavic, Balkan and Caucasus Collection
• Noveishaia istoriia otechestvennogo kino, 1986-2000

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UCL now has access to Joint Publications Research Service (JPRS) Reports, 1957-1995

By Sarah Gilmore, on 27 July 2023

UCL now has access to Joint Publications Research Service (JPRS) Reports, 1957-1995

Joint Publications Research Service (JPRS) Reports, 1957-1995: This archive of publications produced by the Joint Publications Research Service (JPRS), a unit operating within the United States CIA, features English translations of foreign-language monographs, reports, serials, journal and newspaper articles, and radio and television broadcasts from regions throughout the world. With an emphasis on communist and developing countries.

From the height of the Cold War to the dawn of the Internet and the dissolution of the Soviet Union, JPRS reports document the changes on the ground during that tumultuous time. JPRS was established in March 1957 as part of the United States Department of Commerce’s Office of Technical Services, about six months before the Soviet Union launched Sputnik 1. JPRS staffers prepared translations for use by U.S. government officials, various agencies, and the research and industrial communities.

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UCL now has access to American History, 1493-1945 and Gender: Identity and Social Change from Adam Matthew

By Sarah Gilmore, on 22 June 2023

UCL now has access to American History, 1493-1945 and Gender: Identity and Social Change from Adam Matthew.

American History, 1493-1945 : Documenting American History from the earliest settlers to the mid-twentieth century, this collection is sourced from the Gilder Lehrman Collection. Access is to both: Module I Settlement, Commerce, Revolution and Reform: 1493-1859 and Module II Civil War, Reconstruction and the Modern Era: 1860-1945

Gender: Identity and Social Change : Documenting the changing representations and lived experiences of gender roles and relations from the nineteenth century to the present. This collection offers sources for the study of women’s suffrage, the feminist movement, the men’s movement, employment, education, the body, the family, and government and politics.

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UCL now has access to UN Comtrade (United Nations Commodity Trade Statistics Database)

By Sarah Gilmore, on 22 June 2023

UCL now has access to UN Comtrade . On first use select ‘Login’ then ‘Sign up now’ with your @ucl.ac.uk email address. UCL users should see My Comtrade Premium when registered.

To request the API subscription key, please follow this guide https://unstats.un.org/wiki/display/comtrade/New+Comtrade+User+Guide#NewComtradeUserGuide-UNComtradeAPIManagement

The user guide can be found here: https://unstats.un.org/wiki/display/comtrade/New+Comtrade+User+Guide

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