>Here is the latest listing of social science sites of the week
>As chosen by the LSE Library http://lselibraryresearch.blogspot.com/
>See our latest listing of new social science reports here too http://lselibraryresearch.blogspot.com/
>Our latest links to elections in the news http://electionsinthenews.blogspot.com
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> Miller NAWSA Suffrage Scrapbooks, 1897-1911
>http://www.memory.loc.gov/ammem/collections/suffrage/millerscrapbooks
>Part of the wonderful American Memory hosted by the Library of Congress. This site provides free access to a collection of notebooks maintained by American suffragettes Elizabeth Smith Miller and Anne Fitzhugh Miller they cover the years 1897-1911 documenting women’s rights movements such as the activities of the Geneva Political Equality Club from leaflets, notebooks and publications. The site also contains biographical information and an introductory essay.
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>Flickr – British Monarchy
>http://www.flickr.com/photos/britishmonarchy
>Launched this week it includes sections for particular members of the royal family. But most useful are an archive index which contains historic images from 1964 onwards, although in practice most are from 2003 onwards. The majority cover ceremonial occasions. Descriptions and copyright are provided on the website which complements the Monarchy YouTube channel http://www.youtube.com/user/TheRoyalChannel
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>Observatoire Politique de l'Amérique latine et des Caraïbes <http://www.intute.ac.uk/cgi-bin/redir.pl?url=http://www.opalc.org/&handle=20090318-11381481>
>http://www.opalc.org/
>Observatoire Politique de l'Amérique latine et des Caraïbes (OPALC) is a major research body of staff, students and researchers based at Sciences Po, France. It organises events, researches and publishes on all aspects of Latin American politics. This includes coverage of elections in Latin American nations, participative democracy, political parties and movements, migration and politics and assessments of the state of democracy. Its website provides information on its mission and projects. It includes free access to press releases, newsletters and political outlooks, plus some full text papers and reports. The site also includes some blogs and access to some video clips of lectures. The section on elections contains an electoral calendar, recent results and papers. Countries covered include: Dominican Republic; Brazil; Chile; Mexico; Peru; Argentina; El Savador; Bolivia; Nicaragua; Puerto Rica; Colombia and Costa Rica.
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>Vitalizing Democracy through Participation –
>http://vitalizing-democracy.org/
>This site is maintained by the Bertelsmann Stiftung, a private operative foundation based in Gütersloh, Germany. It provides information on websites nominated for the Reinhard Mohn Prize 2011 - 'Vitalizing Democracy through Participation. Users to the site can view examples of the projects, cases studies and links to their websites. They include useful examples of egovernment and community e-democracy sites in action.
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>Global Pulse
>http://www.unglobalpulse.org/
>This is an official site of the United Nations. It acts as a web presence for the Secretary General's "Voices of the Vulnerable <http://www.unglobalpulse.org/voices-report> " report on the impacts on vulnerable populations of the economic crisis. It aims to use new technology to map and report on regional initiatives. Users can view reports on the impact of the recession on the developing world, blog entries, interactive maps and links to UN websites.
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>1948 Olympics.
>http://www.bbc.co.uk/archive/olympics_1948/
>Latest addition to the BBC archive. Get free access to a small collection of behind the scenes films and news report from the London 1948 austerity games. They include photographs of the opening ceremony. There are also some fascinating images of Radio Times front pages advertising events.>
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>Archive and Access
>http://publicarchives.org/introducing-archives-and-access.html
>Archive & Access is supported by the Jamsetji Tata Trust <http://www.dorabjitatatrust.org/> and housed at the Centre for the Study of Culture and Society <http://www.cscsarchive.org/> , Bangalore. It is aiming to create a central listing of major public archives and libraries in India. This will include cross searchable catalogues and links to full text materials from Indian institutions and archives. At the movement content is being added.
>The blog provides useful updates.
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>esearchportal.ch <http://www.forschungsportal.ch>
>http://www.forschungsportal.ch/
>A tool that allows a federated search (metasearch) in the databases of the research projects of 8 Swiss universities (Basel, Bern, Fribourg, Lucerne, St. Gallen, Ticino, Zurich, EPFZ).A useful complement to is a useful complement to
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>seals.ch <http://www.seals.ch/index_fr.html>
>http://www.seals.ch/index_fr.html
>seals.ch website is a portal of information from a consortium of universities based in Switzerland. It offers 2 main sections: a full text digital periodical library and a repository of metadata (bibliographic references and abstracts to other types of recent articles, papers and reports)
>· retro.seals.ch <http://retro.seals.ch/digbib/home> http://retro.seals.ch/digbib/home has been digitizing and putting online full text scientific periodicals of all disciplines. There are currently 82 backruns of titles. From 1881 onwards. Subject collections include: Mathematics (SwissDML) <http://retro.seals.ch/digbib/browse5_1>
>1 Memory of Swiss construction online <http://retro.seals.ch/digbib/browse5_2>
>2 History & geography <http://retro.seals.ch/digbib/browse5_3>
>3 Natural sciences <http://retro.seals.ch/digbib/browse5_4>
>4 Languages <http://retro.seals.ch/digbib/browse5_5>
>5 Education <http://retro.seals.ch/digbib/browse5_6>
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>* meta.seals.ch <http://meta.seals.ch/> cross searches the principal open archives (repositories) of research institutions in Switzerland (ETH E-Collection; RERO DOC; Zora, etc.). it provides access to full text (where copyright allows) and abstracts of theses, working, papers, preprints and conference papers
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>EnCoRe –
>http://www.encore-project.info/
>The EnCoRe project runs from June 2008 to November 2011. It receives funding from the UK Government’s Technology Strategy Board, Economic & Social Research Council and Engineering & Physical Sciences Research Council. The project partners are Hewlett-Packard Laboratories, HW Communications, QinetiQ, the London School of Economics, the HeLEX Centre of the University of Oxford and the University of Warwick. It aims to
>To enable business to adopt scalable, cost effective and robust consent and revocation methods for controlling the use, storing, locating and sharing of personal data.
>●> to benefit individuals by providing meaningful, intuitive mechanisms which will allow them to control the use of their personal information held by others. At the beginning of July it launched its first newsletter, events and papers can also be viewed relating to technical aspects of data privacy.
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>Africana Conference Paper Index </cgi-bin/redir.pl?url=http://nucat.library.northwestern.edu/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?PAGE=dbPage***SEQ=20041220093310***PID=9269&handle=sosig1103557095-1119>
>http://africonf.library.northwestern.edu/
>This site provides access to a searchable catalogue of references to papers and Africana Conference Proceedings which are held by Northwestern University Library. They cover economic, political and social studies of Africa and African nations. Key topics include elections and democracy in Africa, colonialism and colonial administration, slavery, the slave trade and emancipation, Africa and international trade, economic development and famine. All materials are in Western languages. They include useful examples of grey literature. Full bibliographic references are provided.> A
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