E-resources and databases
starting with "U"
- U.K. Parliamentary Papers
U.K. Parliamentary Papers provides complete online coverage of the sessional papers of the British House of Commons and the 19th Century House of Lords. It includes detailed primary source for the history of Britain, its colonies, and the wider world. It covers working documents of government for all areas of social, political, economic and foreign policy. The library has access to the following 3 modules only: Nineteenth-Century House of Commons Parliamentary Papers- House of Lords Parliamentary Papers - Public Petitions to Parliament.
- U.S. Relations and Policies in Southeast Asia, 1944-1958: Records of the Office of Southeast Asian Affairs
This collection identifies the key issues, individuals, and events in the history of U.S.-Southeast Asia relations between 1944 and 1958, and places them in the context of the complex and dynamic regional strategic, political, and economic processes that have fashioned the American role in Southeast Asia..
- Ulrichs Global Serials Directory
Ulrich's Periodicals Directory is a library database providing information about popular and academic magazines, scientific journals, newspapers and other serial publications.
Ulrich's records provide data points such as ISSN, publisher, language, subject, abstracting and indexing coverage, full-text database coverage, tables of contents, and reviews written by librarians.
- UN COMTRADE (United Nations International Trade Statistics Database)
Over 170 reporter countries/areas provide the United Nations Statistics Division (UNSD) with their annual international trade statistics data detailed by commodities/service categories and partner countries. UN Comtrade is a repository of official international trade statistics and relevant analytical tables, providing users with free access to detailed global trade data from 1962 onward.
Licence allows access to CEPII and WITS
To get your authorization code, go to My Account/Account Info.Each user should input their own email address here and click update.Click on My Account/Account Info after updating email to copy authorization code which needs to be pasted onto the appropriate CEPII page in order to gain access to the database:
- Union Catalogue of Rare Books Database
(中文古籍聯合目錄)
Ancient books and special collections from the Taiwan Resource Centre for Chinese Studies (TRCCS).
- United Nations Treaty Collection
The United Nations Treaty Collection contains information regarding the activities of the Treaty Section of the United Nations Office of Legal Affairs. Users have access to status information about treaties, international agreements and multilateral instruments registered, filed or recorded by the United Nations (UN). All multilateral treaties deposited with the UN Secretary-General and those formerly deposited with the League of Nations are included.
- Universal Database of Russian Social Sciences and Humanities
The Russian Social Sciences and Humanities Periodicals (UDB-EDU) collection provides researchers with a unique opportunity to cross-search the contents of major Russian periodicals on a wide variety of subjects. The collection features Russian journals on sociology, philosophy, history, economy, pedagogics, politology, law, and more. It also includes all 31 journals of the Russian Academy of Sciences, ranging in focus from archaeology to linguistics, as well as popular literary editions and independent scholarly publications.
- UpToDate (see login procedure)
UpToDate provides specific recommendations for clinicians in an easy-to-use format. It is comprised of thousands of clinical topics across 25 specialties, written by a recognised faculty of experts who each address a specific clinical issue and provide detailed recommendations. UpToDate resources cover internal medicine and subspecialties, obstetrics and gynecology, family medicine and paediatrics, plus a drug database and medical calculators.
To use UpToDate off-campus and via the mobile app, you must create your own username and password.