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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.

UCL now has access to Children’s leisure activities in Russia online, Slavonic Bibles Online and World of Children – Artek Pioneer Camp Archives, 1944-1967 from Brill

By Sarah Gilmore, on 8 June 2023

UCL now has access to:

  • Children’s leisure activities in Russia online : focusing on the movement for ‘socialisation through play’ and ‘rational leisure’ this collection gives an overview of the different trends in children leisure activities and games from 1917 to the late 1930s
  • Slavonic Bibles Online : a collection of the earliest of the Slavonic early printed books of the Moscow University Library, consisting of 40 Slavonic bibles and Cyrillic religious books printed in the 15th and 16th centuries, including editions of the Gospels, New Testaments, Acts and Epistles, and Psalms
  • World of Children – Artek Pioneer Camp Archives, 1944-1967 : collection containing government documents on Soviet social and health policies, administrative, medical and financial records, transcripts of meetings, materials on educational and ideological work carried out in the camp statistical reports, food rations and provision standards, letters from Soviet and foreign children, diaries etc

Please send feedback on this resource to your subject librarian.

 

UCL now has access to The Royal Anthropological Institute of Great Britain and Ireland Archive and The New York Academy of Sciences Archive (Wiley Digital Archives)

By Sarah Gilmore, on 8 June 2023

UCL now has access to The Royal Anthropological Institute of Great Britain and Ireland Archive and The New York Academy of Sciences Archive (Wiley Digital Archives)

The Royal Anthropological Institute of Great Britain and Ireland Archive: contains nearly one million pieces of unique content, including research data, papers, fieldwork, drawings and photographs, and a wealth of previously uncatalogued material. The archive includes a 150,000-image library of ethnographic photographs dating back to the 1860s. Those images were captured by anthropologists, ethnologists and ethnographic photographers, and include historic prints, lantern slides, drawings and paintings, illustrating diverse world cultures.

The New York Academy of Sciences Archive: encapsulates the history and development of natural science, technology and modern biomedical sciences, and documents anti-intellectualist sentiments towards scientists.

Please send feedback on this resource to your subject librarian.

UCL now has access to the Church Missionary Society Archive and the Church Missionary Society Periodicals

By Sarah Gilmore, on 8 June 2023

UCL now has access to the Church Missionary Society Archive and the Church Missionary Society Periodicals

Church Missionary Society Archive : is a repository of source materials on the work of this globally influential organisation, founded in 1799 as an Anglican evangelical movement and still active today. It includes records of both the CMS and the many other missionary societies which have become associated or amalgamated with it over its lifetime.

Highlights include:

  • Central records of the CMS and papers of key individuals associated with it
  • Records of the the Loochoo Naval Mission (1843-1864), the first recorded Anglican and Protestant mission in Japan
  • Archive of the Society for Promoting Female Education in China, India and the East
  • Records of the Church of England Zenana Missionary Society

Church Missionary Society Periodicals : this resource encompasses publications from the Church Missionary Society, the Church of England Zenana Missionary Society and the latterly integrated South American Missionary Society. Documenting missionary work from the nineteenth to the twenty-first century, the periodicals include news, journals and reports offering a unique perspective on global history and cultural encounters.

Please send feedback on this resource to your subject librarian.

UCL now has access to additional De Gruyter archives

By Sarah Gilmore, on 8 June 2023

UCL now has access to these additional De Gruyter archives:

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UCL now has access to JET Magazine Archive and Atla – Perspectives on Ancient Civilizations, 1200-1922

By Sarah Gilmore, on 7 June 2023

UCL now has access to JET Magazine Archive and Atla – Perspectives on Ancient Civilizations, 1200-1922 .

JET Magazine Archive covers the civil rights movement, politics, education, and other social topics with an African American focus. It includes over 3,000 issues providing a broad view of news, culture, and entertainment from its first issue in 1951 until 2014.

Atla – Perspectives on Ancient Civilizations, 1200-1922 features nearly 900 monographs related to ancient civilizations and cultures from to the Biblical and Classical periods, including Assyrian, Babylonian, Sumerian, Egyptian, Hittite, Greek, and others. The collection covers cultures that existed alongside the Hebrew people who had a strong influence on the formation of the Hebrew scriptures. It includes significant holdings concerning the Akkadian, Syriac, Sumerian, and Egyptian languages and subject areas such as literature, mythology, inscriptions, religion, philosophy, and law.

Please send feedback on this resource to your subject librarian.

UCL now has access to Sage Video: Business & Management and Criminology & Criminal Justice collections

By Sarah Gilmore, on 7 June 2023

Sage Video: Business & Management covers the key concepts and topics for global business leaders. The collection features in-depth interviews with experts from around the world on topics including innovation management, corporate social responsibility, and social media marketing.
Sage Video: Criminology & Criminal Justice explores the criminal justice system with tutorial videos covering the criminal investigation process; case studies showing how research affects policy and practices; and films that take viewers inside forensics labs, correctional facilities, and courtrooms. Recent content explores societal injustices and necessary reforms for correction.

Please send feedback on this resource to your subject librarian.

UCL now has access to Cambridge Shakespeare: The Works and Worlds of Shakespeare Online

By Sarah Gilmore, on 7 June 2023

UCL now has access to Cambridge Shakespeare: The Works and Worlds of Shakespeare Online .

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
  • 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.

Trial access to JET Magazine Archive and Atla – Perspectives on Ancient Civilizations, 1200-1922 (EBSCO)

By Sarah Gilmore, on 17 May 2023

UCL has trial access to JET Magazine Archive and Atla – Perspectives on Ancient Civilizations, 1200-1922 from EBSCO until 30th June 2023.

JET Magazine Archive covers the civil rights movement, politics, education, and other social topics with an African American focus. It includes over 3,000 issues providing a broad view of news, culture, and entertainment from its first issue in 1951 through 2014.

Atla – Perspectives on Ancient Civilizations, 1200-1922 features nearly 900 monographs related to ancient civilizations and cultures from to the Biblical and Classical periods, including Assyrian, Babylonian, Sumerian, Egyptian, Hittite, Greek, and others. The collection covers cultures that existed alongside the Hebrew people who had a strong influence on the formation of the Hebrew scriptures. It includes significant holdings concerning the Akkadian, Syriac, Sumerian, and Egyptian languages and subject areas such as literature, mythology, inscriptions, religion, philosophy, and law.

Please send feedback on this resource to your subject librarian.

Trial access to LGBTQ+ Source (EBSCO)

By Sarah Gilmore, on 11 May 2023

UCL has trial access to LGBTQ+ Source from EBSCO until 9th July 2023.

LGBTQ+ Source provides full-text coverage for the most important and historically significant literature on lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender issues. In addition, this resource provides indexing and abstracts for hundreds of journals, books, newspapers and reference works

Content Includes:
• Over 200 full-text journals
• 200 five-minute videos providing first-person accounts from those in the lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender and queer community
• Over 300 indexed and abstracted journals
• Over 140 peer-reviewed indexed and abstracted journals
• Over 400 indexed and abstracted books and reference works

Topics Covered:
• Feminist theory
• Gay and lesbian spirituality
• Gender stereotypes
• LGBTQ+ history
• LGBTQ+ law
• Same-sex marriage
• Transgender issues

Please send feedback on this resource to your subject librarian.