UCL now has access to ProQuest Black Studies

By Sarah Gilmore, on 9 May 2023

UCL now has access to ProQuest Black Studies

Bringing together ProQuest’s Black Studies content, this collection combines primary and secondary sources, including leading historical Black newspapers, archival documents and collections, key government materials, videos, writings by major Black intellectuals and leaders, scholarly journals, and essays by top scholars in Black Studies

Content featured:

• Schomburg Studies on the Black Experience and Black Studies Periodicals, over 120 archival collections and 160 full text periodicals
• Black Historical Newspapers: Atlanta Daily World (1931–2010); Baltimore Afro-American (1893–2010); Chicago Defender (1910–2010); Cleveland Call and Post (1934–2010); Los Angeles Sentinel (1934–2010); Michigan Chronicle (1936–2010); New York Amsterdam News (1922–2010); Norfolk Journal and Guide (1916–2010); Philadelphia Tribune (1912–2010); Pittsburgh Courier (1911–2010)
• NAACP Papers and Civil Rights Organizational Papers
• Black Abolitionist Papers

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Trial access to Public Health Archives: Public Health in Modern America, 1890-1970

By Sarah Gilmore, on 2 May 2023

UCL has trial access to Public Health Archives: Public Health in Modern America, 1890-1970, Gale Primary Sources, until 1st June 2023.

Public Health Archives: Public Health in Modern America, 1890-1970 documents the rise of the twentieth-century public health system in the United States through correspondence, reports, pamphlets, ephemera, and more. Through primary sources, this archive documents the evolution and impact of public health legislation, policies, and campaigns at the local, national, and federal levels, highlighting the roles played by key organizations and individuals to advance public health practices and outcomes.

The archive also tells a tale of twentieth-century urbanization and industrialization, the rise of public advocacy and impact of legislation at various levels, the transformation of domestic life, the role of state control in the care of its populations, the challenges presented by differences of and social attitudes respecting race, ethnicity, gender, citizenship, age, ability, and class, and finally the means, methods, and mechanisms for organizing and financing public health policy initiatives.

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UCL now has access to Policy Commons: Global Think Tank information

By Sarah Gilmore, on 19 April 2023

UCL now has access to Policy Commons’ subscriber content.

This includes access to more than 24 million pages of curated, high quality policy reports, briefs, analyses, working papers, and datasets from thousands of policy organisations including IGOs, NGOs and think tanks.

Please view this short video introducing the platform and features.

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UCL has access to additional ProQuest and Alexander Street databases

By Sarah Gilmore, on 5 April 2023

UCL now has access to an increased selection of ProQuest and Alexander Street databases

New ProQuest databases:

• Early European Books Collections 20 & 21
• Colonial Legacies: Empire and Commonwealth Periodicals
• Entertainment Industry Magazine Archive Collection 5: Video Gaming 
• Gerritsen Women’s History Collection of Aletta H. Jacobs
• Historical Newspapers: Baltimore Afro-American
• Historical Newspapers: Call Post Cleveland Call & Post Subscription
• Historical Newspapers: Chinese Newspaper Collection
• Historical Newspapers: Los Angeles Sentinel
• Historical Newspapers: New York Amsterdam News
• Historical Newspapers: Norfolk Journal and Guide
• LGBT Magazine Archive Collection 2
• Women’s Wear Daily Archive
• Youth and Popular Culture Magazine Archive

Alexander Street databases:

• Engineering Case Studies Online
• Gilded Age
• Psychological Experiments Online
• Women and Social Movements: Development and the Global South, 1919-2019

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UCL now has access to BFI Player

By Sarah Gilmore, on 5 April 2023

UCL now has access to BFI Player. UCL has access to 100s of exceptional films handpicked by the BFI and available to watch anytime. Stream new, cult and classic films – instant access to exceptional movies hand-picked for you by people with a passion for cinema.

 To set up access to your BFI Player subscription follow these steps: 

• Go to https://player.bfi.org.uk/academic/subscribe and create an account OR sign in if you already have one by selecting ‘Already have an account? Sign in’
• Select University College London from the dropdown list
• Login using your UCL username and password

Make sure you tick the box ‘I’d like to receive the BFI Player newsletter’ for exclusive competitions, watchlists and other BFI opportunities via email. 

Please note:

• Once you’ve set up your subscription, you can login on BFI Player for the remainder of this academic year. You don’t need to use the subscribe link
• BFI Player is unavailable outside the UK
• To be used by UCL students and staff for academic purposes only
• Rentals and festival events are not included in the subscription offer

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Trial access to Deutsch-jüdische Quellen aus Palästina/Israel, Encyclopedia of Jewish-Christian Relations Online, Handbuch des Antisemitismus Online, Klemperer Online and Singerman Bibliography of Antisemitic Texts in English

By Sarah Gilmore, on 30 March 2023

UCL has trial access to Deutsch-jüdische Quellen aus Palästina/Israel, Encyclopedia of Jewish-Christian Relations Online, Handbuch des Antisemitismus Online, Klemperer Online and Singerman Bibliography of Antisemitic Texts in English until 29th April 2023.

These resources can be cross searched using the Jewish Studies Portal: Jüdische Studien Portal

• Deutsch-jüdische Quellen aus Palästina/Israel: contains writings of all genres of German-Jewish immigrants that were published between 1890-2000 in Palestine and Israel. It contains approximately 1,500 entries, of which ca. 250 are linked to their full texts.
• Encyclopedia of Jewish-Christian Relations Online: covers a wide range of topics, including, but not limited to theological concepts (e.g., Christology, Excommunication) spiritual and religious practices (e.g., Prayer, Blessing), ritual (Circumcision, Baptism, Dietary Laws), geographic topics (Ashkenaz, Middle East), denominational concepts (Karaites, Reform Judaism) and political and historical issues (Zionism, Antisemitism).
• Handbuch des Antisemitismus Online: contains all of the 2,200 entries of the print version of the Handbuch des Antisemitismus (8 volumes, 2008–2015).  It includes 650 biographies from late antiquity up to the present day; entries on Judaeophobia in 85 countries and regions; terms, theories and ideologies of antisemitism; events, legislative and administrative actions of discrimination and controversies; organizations, publications as well as more than 700 entries that survey cultural antisemitism in film, theater, literature, and the visual arts.
• Klemperer Online: the database makes available the complete and unabridged diaries of Victor Klemperer, which are among the most important sources of 20th-century German history. The texts feature an extensive commentary and contain over a third more material than the print edition.
• Singerman Bibliography of Antisemitic Texts in English: this bibliographic database identifies a significant variety of books, pamphlets, ephemera, and selected articles, either written in English or translated into English, from the beginning of the 19th century extending to 2022 imprints. The sources come from different countries around the world and the texts reflect a wide diversity of religious, extremist, and nationalist ideologies

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Trial access to Building Types Online

By Sarah Gilmore, on 30 March 2023

UCL has trial access to Building Types Online until 29th April 2023.

Building Types Online is a resource for the study and practice of architectural design. It is based on Birkhäuser’s high international standing in professional architecture books, on the knowledge of the authors and editors who are leading experts in their fields, as well as on the technical quality of the illustrations. The database offers flexible and detailed search and browse access to the contents of the Birkhäuser program on building types. All content was written and selected by internationally renowned authors in architectural design.

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UCL now has access to the Royal College of Physicians Digital Archive: Part I: 1101-1862, History of Medicine from Folklore to Modern Public Health Policy

By Sarah Gilmore, on 23 March 2023

UCL now has access to the Royal College of Physicians Digital Archive: Part I: 1101-1862, History of Medicine from Folklore to Modern Public Health Policy from Wiley Digital Archives

The Royal College of Physicians Digital Archive: Part I: 1101-1862 covers the history of medicine, medical humanities, medicine and culture, religion, and government, the establishment of public health systems, and the policies governing medical education and practice, with content spanning from the twelfth to the nineteenth century. It contains monographs, rare books, manuscripts, correspondence, reports, conference papers, medical reports, medical education textbooks, proceedings, lectures, anatomical drawings, public health surveys, photographs, drawings, data and ephemera.

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Trial access to Digital National Security Archive, Mexico-United States Counternarcotics Policy, 1969-2013

By Sarah Gilmore, on 2 March 2023

UCL has trial access to Digital National Security Archive, Mexico-United States Counternarcotics Policy, 1969-2013 until 1st April 2023.

Digital National Security Archive, Mexico-United States Counternarcotics Policy, 1969-2013 comprises of 1,877 documents which trace the impact of U.S. drug policy on Mexico-U.S. relations from the Nixon administration through the first term of the Obama presidency.

The collection begins with Operation Intercept, President Nixon’s unilateral attempt to stem drug traffic by nearly closing the Mexico-U.S. border, and follows the relations between the hemisphere’s largest consumer of illegal drugs and a principal producer and transit point for those substances. It chronicles the impact of U.S. drug policy on Mexico-U.S. relations; the infusion of U.S. counternarcotics aid in the form of equipment, training, and joint eradication programs; the transformation of drug control from a law enforcement issue to a national security concern; the increased role of the Mexican military in drug control; the rise of Mexican cartels, drug violence, and official corruption; and efforts, through the Merida Initiative, to support judicial reform, institution-building, and institutionalization of rule-of-law.

The set includes detailed reporting on crop eradication campaigns such as Operation Trizo, Operation SEAM, and Operation Condor; Federal Bureau of Investigation reports on the 1985 killing of agent Enrique Camarena; and records on the U.S. extraordinary rendition of Humberto Alvarez Machaín. The documents also examine the effects of the North American Free Trade Agreement on the drug trade, the escalation of drug-related violence in Mexico and on the U.S. border, and implementation of the Merida Initiative.

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Trial access to the Church Missionary Society Archive and the Church Missionary Society Periodicals

By Sarah Gilmore, on 2 March 2023

UCL has trial access to the Church Missionary Society Archive and the Church Missionary Society Periodicals from Adam Matthew until 2nd April 2023. Please note that PDF download options are not available but double clicking on thumbnails shows a larger high-res version.

Church Missionary Society Archive is a repository of source materials on the work of the Church Missionary Society, 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 encompasses publications from the CMS, 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.

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