Here is the last weekly round up of new social science websites for 2010!
Remember the latest reports can be seen in our blog. http://lselibraryresearch.blogspot.com/2010/12/social-science-sites-of-week_21.html
In the British Politics and Policy blog see discussion of donors to the Uk Conservative party and some reviews of recent politics books http://blogs.lse.ac.uk/politicsandpolicy/
Facebook trends 2010
http://blog.facebook.com/blog.php?post=466369142130
What are the top trends see which events generated the most information.
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<a href="http://blog.twitter.com/2010/12/hindsight2010-top-trends-on-twitter.html">Top trends on Twitter in 2010</a>
YouTube : <a href="http://youtube-global.blogspot.com/2010/12/double-rainbows-annoying-oranges-and.html?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+youtube%2FPKJx+%28YouTube+Blog%29">most watched videos on YouTube during 2010</a> from the official blog.
How to Do a Bibliometric Analysis of Your HEI
<http://www.ics.heacademy.ac.uk/publications/guides/download.php?file=/guides/Oppenheim.pdf>
http://www.ics.heacademy.ac.uk/publications/guides/download.php?file=/guides/Oppenheim.pdf
A paper written by Charles Oppenheim , Department of Information Science
Loughborough University and published by the Higher Education Academy in October 2010. It discusses the use of bibliometrics in the forthcoming (RAF)
Research Excellence Framework,
the process that will be undertaken by the various higher education funding councils, but led by HEFCE, to assess research quality in the UK. It provides a definition of bibliometrics and describes the process of citation analysis using ISI web of Knowledge.
MDG Monitor
http://www.mdgmonitor.org/aboutMDG.cfm
Has been created by the UN Development Programme in partnership with the Statistics Division of the UN Department of Economic and Social Affairs (DESA), Relief Web of the UN Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA), and the United Nations Children's Fund (UNICEF). Funding and in-kind support were provided by Google and Cisco. It is intended to provide a single quick portal for tracking data on progress towards the Millennium development goals.
It has an online map, or the ability to create graphs by nation or by goal. Goals include: poverty, education, gender equality, child mortality. Maternal health, environment and development.
The full MDG website remains at http://mdgs.un.org/unsd/mdg/Default.aspx
New online tutorial for political scientists from University of Heidelberg
Willkommen beim Online-Tutorial "FIT für Politologen"!
(http://fitpol.uni-hd.de)
Designed for local students, but with wider general advice of literature searching and citing. All information offered in German only.
Foreign Assistance.Gov
http://foreignassistance.gov/
Launched by the State Department and USAID enables members of the public and researchers to find information on AID distributed overseas by the US Government and USAID. Some data goes back to 1996. It is possible to create graphs by sector (e.g. health, education, country or aid fund) information on the methodology and sources of data used is provided
Legal information Institute of India
http://liiofindia.org/
LII of India has been developed through cooperation between four leading Indian Law Schools (NALSAR University of Law, Hyderabad; National Law School of India University, Bangalore; National Law University, Delhi, and Rajiv Gandhi School of Intellectual Property Law, Indian Institute of Technology - Kharagpur) in partnership with AustLII.
Currently offers free access to 50 leading Indian law databases. These include:
Constitution of India
Supreme Court decisions 1950-
Indian Treaty Series 1947-
Indian Law commission reports 1999-
Resource types covered include legislation, state legislation, case law, auricles from law journals, Hypertext links are provided between related cases and reports. There are also case citators.
Yugoslavia in the World: new wiki website
http://yugoslaviaintheworld.pbworks.com
This academic site seeks to promote research and discussion into global role and experiences of socialist Yugoslavia.
It aims to highlight research, new publications and individuals working in the field. Free registration required.
The Retrospektive Digitalisierung wissenschaftlicher Rezensionsorgane und Literaturzeitschriften des 18. und 19. Jahrhunderts aus dem deutschen Sprachraum, Universitätsbibliothek Bielefeld <http://www.ub.uni-bielefeld.de/index.htm> ,
http://www.ub.uni-bielefeld.de/diglib/aufklaerung/index.htm
Free access to several hundred major German language enlightenment journals (philosophy, scientific and literary journals from 1750 to 1815".The site is maintained by Bielefeld University Library, The project is being carried out by carried out in cooperation with the Georg Olms Verlag AG, the microfiche editions with funding from the funded by the Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft <http://www.dfg.de/index.jsp> , (German Research Foundation).
It is possible to search or browse.
Tobar an Dualchais: Scotland online oral archive
http://www.tobarandualchais.co.uk/
This site has been created by EDINA with funding from the national Lottery heritage fund. It provides free access to over 15,000 Scottish sound recording s taken from the archives of the are drawn from the archives of
The School of Scottish Studies, the BBC and the National Trust for Scotland's Canna Collection. Items include folksongs from Scotland, Gaelic , Conversations recorded on Radio nan Gàidheal and rare Stories recorded by John Lorne Campbell on wax cylinders in 1937 .
On board HMS Medusa, 1802-1810
http://www.gla.ac.uk/services/archives/exhibitions/onboardhmsmedusa/
Site maintained by University of Glasgow archive. Provides free access to all twenty-one of the pages of the logbook) of Royal Navy sailor Andrew Service <http://www.gla.ac.uk/services/archives/exhibitions/onboardhmsmedusa/andrewservice/> covering the period 1802 to 1825 but predominately including remarks on his voyages on board HMS Medusa <http://www.gla.ac.uk/services/archives/exhibitions/onboardhmsmedusa/hmsmedusa/> between 23 March 1802 and 10 June 1810. These offer insights into the experiences of an individual sailor during the Napoleonic wars. Transcripts provided. The site also includes charts the ship and details of the digitisation project.
Polymaps
http://polymaps.org/
Polymaps <http://flowingdata.com/2010/08/20/design-advanced-online-and-interactive-maps-with-polymaps/> , by SimpleGeo and Stamen, is an open-source JavaScript mapping library that lets you build interactive maps from scratch. It aims to enable: provides speedy display of multi-zoom datasets over maps, and supports a variety of visual presentations for tiled vector data, see these examples: http://polymaps.org/ex/
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