Social science sites of the week archive 21st September 2020
Here is the latest update of new and interesting sites for social scientists
this week more covid updates on the latest measures
UniCovid - to track reported Covid-19 cases at UK universities.
Established by This website was set up by John Levin and Andrew Chitty. It aims to report news stories and statistics on cases, outbreaks, local measures,
Collective Architecture and Design Response to Covid-19 Web Archive.
curated by Ann Whiteside and Sara Rogers (Harvard University), Patricia Guardiola (University of Pennsylvania), and Kathy Winsor Bohlman and Jessica Quagliaroli (Yale University) — under the auspices of the Ivy Plus Libraries Confederation — the Archive documents how the architecture and design communities have responded to the Covid-19 pandemic by web archiving a number of key American websites
Knitting the Curve
a data driven initiative from staff at the university of Alberta who are creating knitted items tracking the spread of the disease in Canada . They are working from actual data so it is expressing scientific facts in art
UN75
This week was High-level Meeting to Commemorate the Seventy-fifth Anniversary of the United Nations- 21 September 2020
Reliefweb response on the efforts needed to improve humanitarian aid.
Here are our favourite UN resources for academic research
United Nations Digital Library: The online catalogue of UN documents and publications. The Digital Library includes UN documents, voting data, speeches, maps, and open access publications. The platform provides access to UN-produced materials in digital format and bibliographic records for print UN documents starting in 1979. System features include linked data between related documentation such as resolutions, meeting records and voting, and refining of searches by UN body, agency or type of document. User Guide
UNBIS Thesaurus: The multilingual UNBIS Thesaurus contains the terminology used in subject analysis of documents and other materials relevant to United Nations programmes and activities. Available in Arabic, Chinese, English, French, Russian and Spanish.
Index to Proceedings: A research tool providing a window into the meetings of the main UN organs. The annual publication is comprised of a subject index to all the documents issued by the body in question during a particular session/year and an index to speeches delivered before the forum in question during a particular session/year.
Official Document System: The United Nations official document system provides full text search of documents issued since 1993; resolutions of all principal organs & Security Council plenary documents since 1946. Older documents are added regularly. Includes the Daily Journals of New York and Geneva.
Ruth Bader Ginsberg death
with the recent death of Supreme Court Judge Ruth Bader Ginsberg find out more about her legal contribution
Ballotpedia Encyclopedia of American politics has a biographical and career entry
over 392 videos. the first appearance was a 1986 Interview as a Judge for District of Columbia Circuit in the U.S. Court of Appeals
Oyez Cornell’s Legal Information Institute (LII), Justia, and Chicago-Kent College of Law—a multimedia archive devoted to making the Supreme Court of the United States accessible to everyone has entries on her judgements
New database of evidence-based gender and race equality initiatives
Advance HE has launched a new good practice database, featuring examples of initiatives that advanced gender and race equality in higher education, intended to assist those working through Athena Swan and the Race Equality Charter.
The Global Biodiversity Outlook 5 (GBO-5),
Published by the UN Convention on Biological Diversity (CBD), offers an authoritative overview of the state of nature. It is a final report card on progress against the 20 global biodiversity targets agreed in 2010 with a 2020 deadline, offers case studies of lessons learned and recommendations for future action.
The Technical Platform on the Measurement and Reduction of Food Loss and Waste
Recently launched by the FAO a site to support efforts related to the first International Day of Awareness of Food Loss and Waste which will be held on the on 29 September 2020. The site brings together in one place information on measurement, reduction, policies, alliances, actions and examples of successful models applied to reduce food loss and waste across the globe. It includes a database on food loss and foodwaste statistics worldwide.
Internet Archive scholar launched
a great new project providing free access to thousands of articled and papers on a range of topics. Content in this search index comes from preservation copies at the Internet Archive in one of three forms:
public web content in the Wayback Machine web archives (web.archive.org), either identified from historic collecting, crawled specifically to ensure long-term access to scholarly materials, or crawled at the direction of our Archive-It partners
digitized print material from paper and microform collections purchased and scanned by Internet Archive or our partners
general materials on the archive.org collections, including content from partner organizations, uploads from the general public, and mirrors of other projects
Reels From Home contains materials from Irish Film Institute IFI Player collections including The Bord Fáilte Film Collection, The Irish Adverts Project, The Father Delaney Collection, The Loopline Collection Vol. 1, and The Irish Independence Film Collection. It also has items from the London Irish Centre. it includes special sections on irish, history culture and a selection of fascinating adverts which would be of great value to social, and economic historians.
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