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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UCL now has access to SDC Platinum within Refinitiv Workspace

By Sarah Gilmore, on 22 June 2023

UCL now has access to SDC Platinum, as an add-on within Refinitiv Workspace. To access SDC within Refinitiv Workspace, simply type SDC in the top search bar. To request access please complete the Contact the e-resources team form and a licence will be assigned to you.

SDC Platinum is a reference database for the deal-making community, offering 25+ years of comprehensive data with deals information on everything from M&A to private equity to project finance and providing a flexible screening tool for creating complex searches, reports and analysis. Featuring over four million transactions available with 50 years of historical point-in-time data across major investment banking content sets SDC Platinum allows users to monitor deal flow, identify market trends and gain insight into competitive positioning within any region, asset class or industry at highly flexible levels of granularity

Content and coverage:

• Private Equity: Investments: 395,000; Exits: 46,500, Fundraising: 42,500
• Project Finance: 52,000+
• Public Finance (Munis): 660,000+
• Repurchases: 43,000+
• Joint Ventures and Strategic Alliances: 205,00+
• Poison Pills: 1983 to present, with 12,500+ poison pill adoptions
• Proxy Fights: 1987 to present, with 6,000+ campaigns
• M&A: 1.3 million+ deals globally; 350,000+ US M&A deals; 950,000+ non US M&A deals
• Equity: 410,000+ Equity deals
• Bonds: 1.09 million deals
• Loans: 388,000 deals

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UCL now has access to the Wilson Retrospective Subject Indexes (EBSCO)

By Sarah Gilmore, on 15 June 2023

UCL now has access to the Wilson Retrospective Subject Indexes from EBSCO. These new archival indexes are:

• Applied Science & Business Periodicals Retrospective: 1913-1983 (H.W. Wilson) 
• Applied Science & Technology Index Retrospective: 1913-1983 (H.W. Wilson) 
• Art Index Retrospective (H.W. Wilson) 
• Biography Index Retrospective: 1946-1983 (H.W. Wilson) 
• Book Review Digest Retrospective: 1903-1982 (H.W. Wilson) 
• Business Periodicals Index Retrospective: 1913-1982 (H.W. Wilson) 
• Education Index Retrospective: 1929-1983 (H.W. Wilson)
• Essay and General Literature Retrospective (H.W. Wilson) 
• Humanities & Social Sciences Index Retrospective: 1907-1984 (H.W. Wilson) 
• Index to Legal Periodicals Retrospective: 1908-1981 (H.W. Wilson) 
• Readers’ Guide Retrospective: 1890-1982 (H.W. Wilson) 
• Short Story Index Retrospective: 1915-1983 (H.W. Wilson) 
• Social Sciences Index Retrospective: 1907-1983 (H.W. Wilson) 
• Library Literature & Information Science Retrospective: 1905-1983 (H.W. Wilson) 
• Humanities Index Retrospective: 1907-1984 (H.W. Wilson) 

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UCL now has access to PolicyMap

By Sarah Gilmore, on 15 June 2023

UCL now has access to PolicyMap

PolicyMap offers easy-to-use online mapping with data on demographics, real estate, health, jobs and more in communities across the US.

Benefits:

• Use maps to understand data: on a map, you can see what life is like in a neighborhood, with data at the neighborhood or zip code-level
• Unlock the web’s largest geographic data warehouse: access +50,000 indicators from hundreds of sources through a single product.
• Start mapping instantly: make maps and gain insights in minutes, no specialized GIS knowledge or training needed.

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UCL now has access to Time Magazine Archive

By Sarah Gilmore, on 15 June 2023

UCL now has access to Time Magazine Archive

The Time Magazine Archive presents a collection of the weekly news magazine dating back to its first issue in March 1923 until December 2000, presented in a comprehensive cover-to-cover format.

Intended to be read in under an hour, each issue of Time contains reports of national and international current events, politics, sports, and entertainment. Capturing the relevant news for a given week.

Subjects Covered:

• National and international news
• Current events
• Politics
• Sports
• Celebrity lifestyle

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Paid business experience with Gale, a global publisher

By Sarah Gilmore, on 13 June 2023

Gale are recruiting for a student ambassador at UCL to undertake awareness-building activities, so that more students can find out about, understand and use their digital archives and other library resources such as eBooks.

Gale’s primary sources include full archives of newspapers like The Times, The Telegraph, the Daily Mail and The Economist, as well as period and topical archives like Eighteenth Century Collections Online and Archives of Sexuality and Gender.

About the role: 

The role lasts for the 2023-24 academic year and requires set activities for which Gale Ambassadors are paid £700. Plus, the role is great for your CV…

• Business experience – work directly with a global publisher.
• Run your own marketing activities – refine ‘marketing copy’ and images to make successful use of social media.
• Public speaking – run presentations and training sessions with your fellow students, obtaining valuable public speaking skills.
• Have your work published on a company blog – great, shareable evidence of your work.
• Network – connect with staff and students at the university, other students internationally, and numerous colleagues at Gale.
• Improve your own research skills and discover primary sources for your own essays – potentially improving your grades!

Students from all year groups can apply. The deadline is 1 July 2023.

For more information on what the role might involve, read A student’s perspective of using Gale written by Rob Youngs Do Patrocinio, a former Gale Student Ambassador.

Go to the Gale website for more information on the role and how to apply.