A-Z Databases: U
List of the databases you can use to access journal articles, reports, conference papers, ebooks, newspapers, and many other resources.
U - Databases
- UK Data Service This link opens in a new windowAccess to a range of economic and social data from large-scale government surveys, multi-nation aggregate databanks and major UK longitudinal surveys.
- UK Medical Heritage Library (UKMHL) This link opens in a new windowThe UK Medical Heritage Library is the culmination of a three-year project between JISC, the Internet Archive, the Wellcome Library and nine other partner institutions to digitise more than 15 million pages in over 66,000 works. With full colour page scans, PDF downloads and OCR machine-generated full text for all publications, the collection is a valuable resource providing a broad and diverse range of relevant publications from the 19th century (Formerly available via JISC Historical Texts)
- U.K. Parliamentary Papers This link opens in a new windowPDFs of over 200,000 House of Commons Sessional Papers. Covers 18th Century (1688-1834); 19th Century (1801-1900); 20th Century (1901-2004), and Current (2004 session onwards). Also includes the full-text of Hansard (1803-2005).
- Universal Short Title Catalogue (USTC) This link opens in a new windowa collective database of all books published throughout Europe to 1650. Many of the books described in UTSC are extremely rare
- University of St Andrews Image Database This link opens in a new windowa collection of images 'primarily intended to support research and teaching purposes within the University'. Includes the extensive Art History Slide Collection, and the Corpus of Scottish medieval parish churches
- U.S. operations mission in Iran, 1950-1961 This link opens in a new windowThis collection is a record of the U.S. Operations Mission's experiences in Iran. In it are outlined the programs that were initiated, the problems encountered, and the results of the 11-year effort. The program of technical cooperation in Iran was frequently cited as an example of the ideal Point Four program. The overthrow of the established government led naturally to questions concerning the "failure" of American technical assistance in that country. Three kinds of aid were provided: United States technicians advised or worked with the Iranian Government; supplies and equipment were provided for demonstration purposes; and Iranian personnel were sent to the United States or third countries for observation or training programs. The bulk of assistance was directed towards improving agricultural methods, but much also was achieved in such areas as preventive medicine, education, and administrative improvement.