Guides and databases: Reusable asset guide: Subject guides: Other resources

Newspapers

The Library provides online access to many historic and current newspapers from around the world. You can access them by:

Searching by individual title in Explore.
Searching across collections using Newspaper collection databases.

Newspaper collections at UCL
Details on the many online newspapers to which UCL subscribes, and how UCL staff and students can find and access them.

Clinical trials

ClinicalTrials.gov
International database but hosted in the US at the National Library of Medicine. Currently detailing 345,959 research studies in all 50 states and in 216 countries.
EU Clinical Trials Register
Allows you to search for protocol and results information on:
interventional clinical trials that are conducted in the European Union (EU) and the European Economic Area (EEA);
clinical trials conducted outside the EU / EEA that are linked to European paediatric-medicine development.
ICTRP
Acronym stands for International Clinical Trials Registry Platform. Hosted and overseen by the World Health Organisation. Imports data from various local clinical trials databases, including the ISRCTN, on a regular basis.
ISRCTN Registry
Acronym stands for International Standard Randomised Controlled Trial Number, but the registry now "include(s) any study designed to assess the efficacy of health interventions in a human population". Registered trials must provide 24 data points, which are searchable within the registry and often translate over to other platforms.

Digital Archive Collections

The Library provides access to a number of digital collections of historical documents. The following interdisciplinary databases cover a range of subjects:

Adam Matthew
List of primary source databases from Adam Matthews.
Alexander Street
Primary source collections from Alexander Street.

Archives Unbound
Cross-search with other Gale/Cengage primary sources in Gale Primary Sources. Archives Unbound presents topically-focused digital collections of historical documents covering a broad range of topics from the Middle Ages forward--from Witchcraft to World War II to twentieth-century political history.
British Online Archives
Access to all 124 of British Online Archives collections

ProQuest
Cross Search Proquest databases.

Stores service

Stores service
The UCL Library off-site store is a closed access collection which houses important research material not currently in high demand. Users can request store material for delivery to a number of UCL's libraries.

Theses

Theses
Information about: how to access copies of research theses that UCL Library Services holds, Open Access thesis depositories and how to deposit electronic theses.

Data and statistics

Guide to data and statistics
Includes resource lists mainly in the social sciences, alongside support material and FAQs, but also pointers to finding data more generally. Also, there’s further information and guidance about analysing, visualising, referencing and managing data, as well as text and data mining.

UCL LIBRARY SERVICES

Reusable asset guide