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sites of the week 12 March

In the news this week    Ukraine  Some useful collections of factual papers  UNRIC Library Backgrounder: Ukraine   Overview of the latest information from the United Nations system on the Ukraine crisis.   House of Commons papers   CRS reports for US Congress     More international reports on COVID   Caring for those who care – Guide for the development  and implementation of occupational health and safety programmes for health workers (ILO / WHO) COVID-19 Research and Innovation: Powering the world’s pandemic response – now and in the future (WHO) See more on the blog     Inclusive Britain  The release of  a new policy to tackle racial inequality in the UK.   which is a response to the Commission on Race and Ethnic Disparities.  see more on our  scoop.it page   including a report on racial and ethnic inequality in chemistry funding and research which was released this week and shows...

social science sites of the week 4th March 2022

here is the latest update of new and interesting sites for social scientists  key checking the blog for the latest  uk government publications on Covid   social science research  selections of key recent publications        Survey findings: Two years into the COVID-19 pandemic, how is Africa's higher education sector faring?   Latest research from the Africa portal where you can find more papers and reports from African universities   There is a specialist research library for covid related materials.   Paud's Pins – an LGBTQ+ history project   Great LGBT community archive it comprises over 100 badges. belonging to former Gay’s the Word  bookshop manager Paud Hegarty which were discovered recently abandoned in an attic.  The physical archive is housed in the bookshop in London.  Learn more about the campaigns & struggles of left-wing and LGBTQ+ activists. See images of the badges and comments and me...

sites of the week 11th March 2022

  Here is the latest round up of new and interesting sites for social scientists  key checking the blog for the latest  uk government publications on Covid   social science research a selection of key recent publications      Ukraine.  some useful large scale resources.    Archive-it website archive   Since 2014 archive-it have been archiving the websites of a selection of resources selected by experts from Stanford University, Harvard and the Library of Congress. They include blogs, social media and government. Topics include politics and investigative journalism. The site is searchable and a good resource for tracing documents relating to the development of the conflict    ACLED datasets relating to Ukraine   It has    data and mappings on all    political violence and demonstrations since 2018. There is an interactive map which is now being updated daily with data,    Russia-Ukraine Mo...