sites of the week 10th June 2022

Here is the latest round up of new and interesting sites of the week

British Library launch covid 19 oral history testimony database

Now available to download from the British Library website where can find information about oral history projects  undertaken by local record offices across the Uk to preserve the people  memory of lockdown, life and experiences in 2020-21 for future generations. Each entry has a link to the website and contact details.

News from the LSE, the LSE archives was recently  lucky enough to use an endowment fund from the Women’s library to purchase a letter which gives an account of suffragette Emily Wilding Davison. It contains an account from a witness who visited the hospital after she was hit by a horse at the 1913 Epsom Derby and believed she was regaining consciousness. It can be viewed on a Google Arts and Culture exhibition of her life 

.The Interactive Encyclopedia of the Palestine Question, launched by  the Institute for Palestine Studies is proud to present

Contains. A historical chronology of the region – highlighting key events

Biographies of Palestinian intellectuals, artists, leaders, combatants, and politicians from 19^th, 20^th century. Academic articles on thematic topics. Also available  are full text primary source documents including maps, photographs and documents plus contextual essays

Measuring Publication Diversity Among the Most Productive Scholars: How Research Trajectories Differ in Communication, Psychology, and Political Science”

Interesting article published in Scientometrics.

Looks at publication patterns in three disciplines: Communication, Political Science, and Psychology), and examine who publishes articles and where. It considers interdisciplinarity in the social sciences. And considers if there are ore published authors who are male or female. See more articles on our scoop.it page

Supervision podcast

Just launched a new series which interviews UK doctoral students about the topics of their research and their experiences of studying for a PHD. What advice do they give about the supervision process?

 

Earth Observing dashboard

Recently launched by NASA using scientific evidence to provide a global view of recent environmental changes taking place due to climate change.

It includes

The atmosphere focus area demonstrates ways in which air pollution and climate change contribute to environmental change

In the agriculture focus area, users can explore satellite data that provides insights into agricultural production, crop conditions, and food supply.

The biomass focus area features a story describing how trees and plants remove substantial amounts of carbon dioxide out of the atmosphere each year.

In the cryosphere focus area, a story on the effects of global temperature rise on the extent of sea ice allows the reader to interact with a geographic visualization of a JAXA sea ice dataset.

The water and ocean area focuses on Earth’s largest natural resource and enables users to discover a view of the ocean that is as rich and complex as that of land.

The economy focus area provides access to datasets that show how Earth’s social and economic systems are connected to the environment.

Bath and colonialism

Based on research from Bath Abbey, Bath Record Office and Bath Preservation Trust  funded by the National lotter this website contains information on Bath’s links to the transatlantic slave trade.  It is based on research  conducted in local newspaper the Bath Chronicle from 1760 to 1780. The website contains discussion of contemporary words used to discuss slavery and race. It also has articles, contextual images and some original documents. It includes details of profit, trade and images of it in Georgian England

 

best wishes

Heather Dawson

h.dawson@lse.ac.uk