Sites of the week 30th September 2022

 Here is the latest update of new and interesting sites for social scientists

 

Reaction to the budget  

Take a look at the links on our blog to submissions and analyses made before and after the delivery of the September 2022 mini budget. 

 https://alissresearch.blogspot.com/2022/09/mini-budget-reactions.html 

for start of term 

higher education links on our scoop.it page are worth exploring 

https://www.scoop.it/topic/higher-education-news-for-libraries-and-librarians 

Added this week 

NUS survey highlights cost of living issues faced by uk students 

student money survey 2022 results 

 

 

 State of trust and integrity in research 

a commercial company called Ripeta – has published  The State of Trust & Integrity in Research. 

it considers open data stewardship and how to foster integrity in research. The second section considers the policies of several major funders: the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, European Commission (EC), US National Institutes of Health (NIH), National Science Foundation of China (NSFC), and German Federal Ministry of Education and Research (Bundesministerium für Bildung und Forschung, BMBF). 

 

Global registry of oil and gas reserves, provides access in one place to production and emissions with data for more than 50,000 fields. 

Launched by Carbon Tracker Initiative, with data support from Global Energy Monitor, the Global Registry also received initial support from France, Sweden, Luxembourg and Nauru at COP26 in Glasgow. Visualisations also include sections on 

comparisons of  emissions in the supply chain across different producing countries 

a variety of future possible scenarios and consideration of  

how fossil fuel production fits into the global economy 

 

Sisters are doing it for themselves  

the latest addition to the LSE Digital Library. Funded by the National Lottery. They comprise 14 fascinating oral history recordings covering, the careers, life experiences and insight of 14 remarkable women selected by the Womens resource centre for their leadership. Truly inspirational and a good resource for Black history month as they include insight from the lived experiences of women of colour.  

 

 Also as a starter for black history month 

an expansion of Brown Library Race in America digital books 

Each of the thirteen volumes in the series includes: 

 

A recording of one of the 90-minute panel discussions that took place throughout the 2021-2022 academic year 

And Student Voices podcast episodes in which Brown University students engage the panelists in follow-up discussion 

Recommendations for entry-point materials on the subject 

Multimedia resource collections of readings, online exhibitions, podcasts, and other materials referenced during the panel discussions 

Suggestions for further exploration 

  

Liberating Histories 

 A great new project site based at Northumbria University and partnered with the Women’s Library at the LSE which explores feminist magazines from the beginning of the Women’s Liberation Movement in 1968 to the present day. It will be developing class resources for teachers, linking to digital archives. It is also aiming to develop digital oral histories from consumers of. women's magazines such as Spare Rib and Shocking pink 

Qalamos portal is being developed as part of the DFG project "Orient-Digital". Project partners are the Bavarian State Library in Munich, the Gotha Research Library, the Berlin State Library and the University Computer Center in Leipzig. It aims to provide information and links to some digitised  manuscripts from Asian and African writing traditions. 

including  Arabic, Persian and Ottoman Turkish works, 

Law and Corpus Linguistics suite of corpora. 

maintained by BYU university enables analysis of historical texts .It allows researchers to computer analyse words in  large textual datasets to track meaning and occurrence. 

https://lawcorpus.byu.edu/ 

It now contains the whole Congressional Record as published from 1873-2021 by the Government Publishing Office . More about it is here 

https://lncl11.lawcorpus.byu.edu/crec/ 

There are instructional videos on the website 

 

Best wishes 

Heather Dawson 

h.dawson@lse.ac.uk 

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