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UCL Library Services provides you with access to 1000s of electronic books (e-books) which you can access both on- and off-site.

Our Electronic books (e-books) guide contains information on finding, using, and citing e-books at UCL.

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UCL has trial access to Associations Unlimited database

UCL has trial access to the Associations Unlimited database from Gale until 10th September 2024. The Associations Unlimited database comprises of access to: Encyclopedia of Associations: International Organizations : covers multinational and national membership organizations from Afghanistan to Zimbabwe – including U.S.-based organizations with a binational or multinational membership. Encyclopedia of Associations: National Organizations of […]

Trial access to two collections of Hebrew ebooks and ejournals

UCL currently has trials running with two online services offering access to ebooks and ejournals in Hebrew. The trials are running until 31st August 2024. PSIK provides access to over 4,500 Hebrew ebooks (including fiction and poetry) and 30+ magazines and journals from major Israeli publishers. As well as signing in via UCL, you will […]

UCL has trial access to PatSeer

UCL has trial access to PatSeer until 6th November 2024. This trial is for current UCL students and staff only and access is limited to 5 users at a time. To access: go to PatSeer add your UCL email address to the username field in the login tab you will then receive and authentication code […]

UCL has trial access to ZEDHIA

UCL has trial access to ZEDHIA until 31st August 2024. Please note that access is restricted to 3 concurrent users.  For offsite access please first login to Desktop@UCL Anywhere or the UCL VPN ZEDHIA features digitalized full text about the history of Central Europe’s business, economy and genealogy. The 28,543 volumes and 1.3 million pages of the publications […]

UCL has trial access to Muteferriqa : Ottoman Turkish Discovery Portal

UCL has trial access to Muteferriqa until 23rd August 2024. For offsite access please first login to Desktop@UCL Anywhere or the UCL VPN Muteferriqa is a primary source research portal containing 7 million pages of Ottoman Turkish printed books and periodicals, on which you can search and read in Ottoman, Turkish, and English; and make visual discoveries as […]

UCL now has access to additional Gale Primary Source databases

UCL now has access to additional Gale Primary Source databases. The new collections are: Archives of Sexuality & Gender Part VI: Community and Identity in North America Environmental History: Conservation and Public Policy in America, 1870–1980 and Colonial Policy and Global Development, 1896-1992 History of Disabilities: Disabilities in Society, Seventeenth to Twentieth Century Indigenous Peoples […]

UCL now has access to Video Data Bank (VDB) Streaming

UCL now has access to Video Data Bank (VDB) Streaming. Access is for current UCL students and staff only. VDB Streaming launched in 2024 by Video Data Bank at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago, offering access to a vast collection of video art and experimental moving image work by and about contemporary […]

Trial access to The Social History Archive – including the Bookseller archive

UCL has trial access to The Social History Archive – including the Bookseller archive – until 9th August 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 […]

UCL now has access to Literary Studies (AM Scholar)

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 […]

UCL has trial access to FSTA – Food Science and Technology Abstracts with Full Text (EBSCO)

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 […]

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