Social science sites of the week 15th May 2020



The LSE have launched a blog of academic writing and opinion pieces on The impact of COVID-19 in Latin America and the Caribbean
covid-19 and information literacy: a selective list of useful resources – a great useful listing for librarians from the Information Literacy Group


 Created by the World Intellectual Property Office this website provides information on measures adopted by national IP offices in response to the COVID-19 pandemic these include extension and changes of deadlines for registration. Users can also consult new legislation and regulation changes.

The COVID-19 Protein Portal
Recently launched by a UK consortium. This website
aims is to facilitate more rapid  COVID-19 research by providing high quality protein reagents directly to scientists

Florence Nightingale

International Nurses' Day is celebrated around the world each year on 12 May, the anniversary of Florence Nightingale's birth. Nurses' Day provides an opportunity to mark the contribution of nursing staff and reflect on the vital work they do everyday.
To celebrate 200 years of the legacy of Florence Nightingale. Read this article from the RCN
And explore this fabulous online exhibit from the Florence Nightingale Museum.
Things I learnt.
She was incredibly good at maths and statistics. The diagrams are so beautifully drawn
She wrote a text called Cassandra discussing womens roles and aspirations and the restrictions of society. It can be read on the Internet archive
A prolific letter writer . The Florence Nightingale Digitization Project began in 2014 as a collaborative effort between the Florence Nightingale Museum in London, England, the Boston University Howard Gotlieb Archival Research Center, the Royal College of Nursing and the Wellcome Library has an index of her writings and letters with their locations  



Every 12th May, the anniversary of the birth of Florence Nightingale- international nurses day is celebrated. Now more than ever we all recognise the value of nursing care.
Here are some links to information the nursing workforce worldwide.
For England there are regular monthly nursing force statistics issued by the NHS for full time equivalent (FTE) NHS Hospital and Community Health Service (HCHS) staff groups working in NHS Trusts
There is also a factsheet by ethnicity of staff for January 2020
WHO Europe has data on staff in European nations.It includes information on numbers training and wages.OECD Data number of nurses per 1000 inhabitants
world bankWorld Bank has a similar data for nurses and midwives with a larger spread of countries worldwide.Global Health observatory of the WHO has data on the Density of nursing and midwifery personnel (total number per 10 000 population,


 PrivaSeer: Searchable Database of Web Privacy Policies
Launched by Penn State university and explained in full in this introductory paper. This new portal  enables researchers to search over one million English language privacy policies from across the web. It was created from Common Crawl URLs and can be searched by text or URL


New edition of the Verification Handbook launched – fight fake news!
The book is published by the European Journalism Centre and supported by Craig Newmark Philanthropies and is now now in its third edition.
It is intended to enable equips journalists with knowledge and advice on how to check the authenticity of  social media accounts, bots, private messaging apps, information operations, deep fakes, as well as other forms of disinformation and media manipulation.


New UK Education Statistics portal launched by UK government
This service enables researchers to explore and download the latest education data and create their own tables. It covers all levels from early years to higher education and also covers staffing.


The Library of Congress “Newspaper Navigator” Dataset is Now Available
Created by AI technology over ; Over 16 Million Pages From “Chronicling America” are available in this new resource on GIT Hub . dataset by extracting headlines, photographs, illustrations, maps, comics, cartoons, and advertisements from 16.3 million historic newspaper pages in Chronicling America historic newspaper resource from the Library of Congess

women Activists of East London 1880-2020
A great website new from ShareUk
Women Activists of East London' was funded by the Heritage Lottery Fund and looked to explore the history of women-led activism in the East London boroughs of Hackney, Tower Hamlets and Waltham Forest. It focused on the themes of gender violence, the labour movement, racism, environment and peace movements between 1888 and 2016. The project captured thirty-seven interviews with women activists and published a report, 'Women Activists of East London: A study of radical female history in Tower Hamlets, Hackney and Waltham Forest' to accompany the interviews.
It includes an app to a walking tour.Plus links to online learning resources related to the themes.


Museums at Home
Why not take a virtual tour of the Painted Hall Old Royal Naval College, Greenwich renowned for decorate ceiling which was restored in 2019.
Look out for the positive new updates each day


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