> Here is the latest update
> Of new and interesting sites of the week.
> From Intute and the LSE Library
> http://lselibraryresearch.blogspot.com/
> Follow out updates of social science publications
> weekly round ups of new Uk government publications.
> http://lselibraryresearch.blogspot.com/2010/07/government-publications
> -15-22nd-july.html
> Our elections in the news blog - this week Burundi
> http://electionsinthenews.blogspot.com/
>
> European e-Justice portal
> https://e-justice.europa.eu/home.do
> The European Internet portal e-Justice, was launched this week as an
> electronic one-stop-shop for access to justice throughout the EU. It
> is intended to help citizens and practitioners in locating information
> about European law and law of individual member states.
> * It includes links to the main EU primary law databases: EUR-Lex
> <http://eur-lex.europa.eu/> , Summaries of EU Legislation
> <http://europa.eu/legislation_summaries/index_en.htm> , PreLex
> <http://ec.europa.eu/prelex/apcnet.cfm> , JURIFAST
> <http://www.juradmin.eu/en/jurisprudence/jurifast/jurifast_en.php> ,
> JURE <http://ec.europa.eu/civiljustice/jure/index.htm> , and Caselex
> <http://www.caselex.com/> .
> * Links to e N-Lex database <http://eur-lex.europa.eu/n-lex/> ,
> which enables access to the national legislation of many EU and
> information on national judicial systems
> * Information on obtaining legal aid and going to court for
> members of the public
> * Information for businesses on insolvency procedures, business
> registers in Europe and the individual EU member states.
>
> UK sound Map
> http://sounds.bl.uk/uksoundmap/map.aspx
> The SoundMap is a project of the British Library and the Noise Futures
> Network <http://www.noisefutures.org> . It is working to create a
> sound map of the UK using mobile technology. The beta pilot version
> covers pilot survey is based on the Sheffield metropolitan area. It
> covers Sheffield, Rotherham, Doncaster, Barnsley, Chesterfield,
> Eckington, Worksop, Killamarsh, Dronfield and Bolsover. Members of the
> public can contribute typical sounds, noise recordings from their
> locality. Users may browse the map and listen to the sounds. These aim
> to create a social history of the natural and built environment of the
> area. Those already available include football matches, wildlife.
>
> Cibera
> http://www.cibera.de/en/index.html
> Cibera was launched in 2003 as a joint project among the
> Ibero-American Institute (Berlin), the German Institute for Global and
> Area Studies - Institute of Latin American Studies (Hamburg) and the
> Bremen State and University Library. It sponsored by Deutsche
> Forschungsgemeinschaft (DFG) <http://www.dfg.de> and part of the
> interdisciplinary German Science Portal vascoda
> <http://www.vascoda.de> . Its aim is to provide indexes to articles
> and links to key web resources covering German research on German
> research on Latin America, Spain and Portugal <http://wiki.cibera.de/>
> .
> It cross search searches library catalogue holdings from the partners,
> Bibliography of Hispanistic Research in Germany, Austria and
> Switzerland <http://www.hispanistikbibliographie.uni-muenster.de/%20>
> , IberoDigital 1 (since 1999) and tables of contents of a number of
> key titles.
>
>
>
> National Library of Scotland Flickr
> http://www.flickr.com/photos/nlscotland/
> The NLS now has its own flickr account where you can get free access
> to images, photographs and prints from the collection. Key historic
> highlights are: last letter of Mary Queen of Scots
> http://www.flickr.com/photos/nlscotland/sets/72157623401099945/
> Order for the massacre of Glencoe
> http://www.flickr.com/photos/nlscotland/sets/72157623539487578/
> Another key set are the First World War images
> http://www.flickr.com/photos/nlscotland/sets/72157624150609895/
> These are from the papers of Field Marshal (Earl) Haig (1861-1928),
> and include battlefield scenes. They are official military
> photographer images and also include examples of military propaganda.
> .
>
> Our changing lives
> http://www.ourchanginglives.net/
> A useful website supported by the Economic and social research
> council, Wellcome Institute and the Medical research council. It
> describes itself as offering a gateway to finding s from latest
> research on how British lives are shaped and are changing in the 21st
> century. How they are affected by health, wealth, employment. It
> provides links to the major websites of longitudinal studies, birth
> cohort studies undertaken from the 1940s until the present day. The
> descriptions are offered in a style which is accessible to the public
> and undergraduate's links are provided to the original survey home
> pages where many examples of data can be directly downloaded.
>
>
> 14-18 Images of the Great War (Immagini della Grande Guerra)
> http://www.14-18.it/1418/index.php?1/home
> is a digital library made of historical photographs digitized from
> different library collections in Italy. They include the Central
> Museum of the Risorgimento in Rome. Fondo guerra BUA - Biblioteca
> Universitaria Alessandrina
> <http://www.alessandrina.librari.beniculturali.it/> Fondo guerra BSMC
> - Biblioteca di Storia Moderna e Contemporanea <http://www.bsmc.it/>
> in addition to the photographs the site also has a selection of
> digital images of Italian first World War Trench newspapers offering
> insight into the Italian soldiers experiences. All information is
> offered in Italian only. Copyright notices are on the website.
>
> Multidimensional Poverty Index (MPI)
> http://www.ophi.org.uk/policy/multidimensional-poverty-index/mpi-resou
> rces/
> The United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) and Oxford University
> have launched a new index to measure poverty levels which they said
> give a "multidimensional" picture of people living in hardship, and
> could help target development resources more effectively. The new
> measure, the Multidimensional Poverty Index, or MPI, was developed and
> applied by the Oxford Poverty and Human Development Initiative (OPHI)
> with UNDP support. It will be featured in the forthcoming 20th
> anniversary edition of the UNDP Human Development Report to be
> released in October 2010, and replaces the Human Poverty Index, which
> had been included in these reports since 1997. It is possible to view
> examples of the methodology and case studies of the new index at
> http://www.ophi.org.uk/
> http://www.ophi.org.uk/policy/multidimensional-poverty-index/mpi-count
> ry-briefings/
>
> Heather Dawson
> LSE Library
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