UCL is part of the University of London. Dependent organisations include the Development Planning Unit (see separate entry), an Anthropology Unit, the Centre for Social and Economic Research on the Global Environment (CSERGE: see separate entry)

Information sources include:

(a) Library Catalogue: OPAC includes the collections of the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine (see separate entry) and the Royal Free Hospital School of Medicine. Coverage 50% (c350,000 records), For UCL, book cataloguing since 1982, plus circulating stock, plus some retrospective cataloguing especially in science and medicine. Periodicals: current journals included; some – not all – dead sets. : journal holdings, plus monographs from 1980. Royal Free Hospital School of Medicine: all journal holdings, plus monographs since 1987.OPAC: Libertas. Library has an archive on Latin American business.

(b) WWW site: information on departments, courses and research

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