UCL Library Services provides access to a wide range of databases. These are available for use by UCL staff and students both on and off-site within the terms of the license agreements.
See the LibrarySkills@UCL guide to EBSCOhost. Bibliographic database of journal, newspaper, and magazine articles from international alternative, radical, and left periodicals. Coverage from 1969 onwards.
Access for UCL students and staff only. Log in with UCL email address then via the UCL Single Sign On. Please note that Bloomberg terminal / Bloomberg Anywhere is not included. Includes access to the Bloomberg.com and the Bloomberg mobile app plus unlimited streaming of Bloomberg TV, radio and podcasts. Bloomberg.com delivers business and markets news, data, analysis, and video featuring stories from Businessweek and Bloomberg News.
Backfiles of 20th-century serials covering many aspects of children's lives and interests. Include titles focusing on education, entertainment / literature, news, and religion / moral development. As well as shedding light on the history of childhood and family life during this period, these titles provide alternative perspectives in the study of 20th-century advertising/marketing, popular culture, society, education, media, and print culture. Accessibility statement for ProQuest.
This archive focuses on key events in colonial history, including the later phase of the Scramble for Africa, the world wars, independence movements and the creation of the Commonwealth. Accessibility statement for Colonial Legacies (ProQuest).
Archive, from 1897 to 2005, of the weekly British culture and lifestyle magazine Country Life focusing on fine art and architecture, the great country houses, and rural living. Accessibility statement for ProQuest.
Database of millions of citations for articles published in the arts, humanities and social sciences, across more than 300 years. Journals indexed span 37 key subject areas and multiple languages. Accessibility statement for ProQuest.
Collection of primary source exhibits focusing on queer history and culture. The database uses “queer” in its broadest and most inclusive sense, to embrace topics that are gay, lesbian, bisexual, and transgender and to include work on sexual and gender formations that are queer but not necessarily LGBT. Accessibility statement for Alexander Street.
Social Work Online pairs recently published social work textbooks with documentaries, clinical demonstration videos, and lectures that illustrate the complex and challenging realities that social work students will face as practitioners. The content is structured around twelve of the most important topics in the social work curriculum. Accessibility statement for Social Work Online.
Examining the history of trade, trade policies, financial crises, emerging markets and technological innovations that unite the world in an ever-changing system of trade. This collection gathers books, case studies, archival materials and documentaries to provide historical context and insights. Accessibility statement for Alexander Street
Collection of rare magazines by and for servicemen and women of all nations during the First World War. The archive includes over 1,500 periodicals written and illustrated by serving members of the armed forces and associated welfare organisations published between 1914 and the end of 1919.Accessibility statement for Trench Journals and Unit Magazines of the First World War (ProQuest).
Containing over 2,050 plays from the United States and Canada, this full-text resource offers a window into the economic, historical, social, and political psyche of two countries. At least 550 of the works have never been published before.Accessibility statement for Alexander Street.
This module includes President Franklin D. Roosevelt's Map Room Files, Records of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, Records of the War Department Operations Division, U.S. Navy Action and Operational Reports, Records of the Office of War Information, Papers of the War Refugee Board, George C. Marshall Papers, and numerous other collections. Accessibility statement for History Vault (ProQuest).