4th March 2023

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

 

The UK Government’s research evaluation system encourages a higher quantity and lower quality of work from academics, according to a paper published this week 

Read the. document on the Queen Mary University of London website 

see more reports on higher education on our scoop.it page  

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

 

 

UK government is  creating a “hostile environment” towards campaigners, charities and other civil society bodies. 

according to The latest Civicus Monitor, which tracks the democratic and civic health freedom of over 190 nations worldwide. 

 

 

Taube Archive of the International Military Tribunal at Nuremberg, 1945-1946 (IMT) is now online via the Stanford Libraries and the Stanford Center for Human Rights and International Justice. website. it includes original unedited footage which may be searched. it also includes digitised court room evidence archive of holocaust and Nazi home rights abuses during the second world war 

 

Time-Lapse Maps of Russia’s War on Ukraine 

released on the  

Institute For the Study of War (ISW). it is possible to download maps for each month of the war and to interact with them to zoom in and look at advances made by specific sides 

 

Periodical Poets

http://periodicalpoets.com/

 is a project by Charline Jao with the support of the Cornell Summer Graduate Fellowship in Digital Humanities, sponsored by Cornell University Library & Society for the Humanities.it contains over 500 by well known and anonymous authors including discussion of abolition, slavery and race 

 

Countering disinformation 

Created by the United Nations 

contains the Secretary-General has submitted report based on information and examples of best practices shared by States, UN entities and others on countering disinformation. 

 

Women in Social and Public Policy Research Hub (WISPPRH)  

new hub created at the LSE Social Policy 

which aims to act as. a network and website for scholars working on the causes and impact of gender inequality  

 in education, labour markets and the family. 

it includes details of projects, full text papers and events. 

 

Black Mothers in the Forefront: Struggles and Resistance in the 1970s 

an online exhibit from the Black Cultural Archives 

amazing images and oral histories which focus on  activism by black mothers in the UK in the 1970s includes campaigns for health, education and work. 

 

new endangered archives from the British Library 

Digital Documentary Resources in Nilgiri and Coimbatore (1850-1970) (EAP1274) 

https://eap.bl.uk/project/EAP1274

The collections digitised in this project consist mostly of photographs dating from the late 19th to mid 20th centuries. They include historic records from Tea planters associations with photos of. tea plantations. And their owners and workforces  

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