> Here is this week's round up of new and interesting sites.
> Remember you can keep up to date with out blog at;
> http://lselibraryresearch.blogspot.com/2011/07/social-science-sites-of-week_28.html
> Launch of the International Political Education Database <https://sites.google.com/site/psatlg/Home/resources/journal-articles> 
> https://sites.google.com/site/psatlg/Home/resources/journal-articles
> IPED is hosted on the website of the UK Political Studies Association> '> s Teaching and Learning Group It provides free access to hundreds of bibliographic references to journal articles covering teaching and learning in politics and public administration. It aims to comprehensively index articles from the following leading journal titles: PS: Political Science and Politics > ->  from volume 24 (1991) ;Journal of Political Science Education > ->  from Volume 1 (2005) ;International Studies Perspectives > ->  from Volume 1 (2000) European Political Science > ->  from Volume 1 (2001) Politics > ->  from Volume 1 (1981) ELiSS: Enhancing Learning in Social Science > ->  from Volume 1 (2008) LATISS: Learning and Teaching: The International Journal of Higher Education in the Social Sciences > ->  from Volume 1 (2008) LATISS: Learning & Teaching in the Social Sciences > ->  Volume 1 (2004) to 3 (2007)
> Materials are listed under broad subject headings. These include: e-learning, critical thinking, surveys of teaching and teaching techniques.
> Basic author title information is provided. The website also has links to conference papers presented at PSA Teaching and Learning Conferences
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> Happiness research. This week the Office for National Statistics released the results of a public consultation on indicators which the British public feel should be used to measure happiness National Statistician> '> s Reflections on the National Debate on Measuring National Well-being <http://www.statistics.gov.uk/cci/article.asp?id=2718> .
> http://www.statistics.gov.uk/cci/article.asp?id=2718
>  On the same theme
> OECD better life index  <http://www.oecdbetterlifeindex.org/ > 
> http://www.oecdbetterlifeindex.org/
> has created an interactive tool to allow citizens to compare well-being across 34 countries. It uses 11 dimensions including material living conditions and quality of life: housing, income, jobs, community, education, environment, governance, health, life satisfaction, safety, work-life balance.
> Also try the mappiness index <http://www.mappiness.org.uk/>   http://www.mappiness.org.uk/ which is mapping levels of happiness across the UK. The World Database of happiness research <http://worlddatabaseofhappiness.eur.nl/>  http://worlddatabaseofhappiness.eur.nl/
> directed by: Ruut Veenhoven, Erasmus University Rotterdam provides free access to a bibliography of articles in academic journals plus a database of measures.
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> EGO: European History Online <http://www.ieg-ego.eu/en/ego> 
> http://www.ieg-ego.eu/en/ego
> Is a project of the Institute of European History (Institut für Europäische Geschichte > ->  IEG) Mainz. It is creating a collection of over 200 articles for undergraduates focusing on themes of European history from 1450-1950. The main emphasis is upon intercultural exchange in European history. Key topic threads include: Theories and Methods - methodological and theoretical approaches that are crucial to a transcultural history of Europe; European Networks depicts the personal networks in which the regular exchange of ideas, technologies and practices took place; Alliances and Wars; European media. Articles are presented in English and/or German. They include text and illustrating prints, images. Bibliographies are provided.
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> Handbook for National Action Plans on Violence against Women <http://www.un.org/womenwatch/daw/vaw/handbook-for-nap-on-vaw.pdf >  
> http://www.un.org/womenwatch/daw/vaw/handbook-for-nap-on-vaw.pdf
> (UN Women) Recently>  published by UN Women The Handbook presents a model framework for national action plans on violence against women, which sets out detailed recommendations, accompanied by explanatory commentaries and good practice examples.
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> New digital exhibitions from the Newberry Library 
> The Newberry Library is an independent research library based in Chicago. Its online collections include free access to digitised exhibitions recent examples include Revolutionary France and Haiti, 1787> -> 1804 http://publications.newberry.org/digitalexhibitions/exhibits/show/franceandhaiti/intro <http://publications.newberry.org/digitalexhibitions/exhibits/show/franceandhaiti/intro> 
> Includes text and some images of maps and prints.
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> Approaching the Mexican Revolution: Books, Maps, Documents http://publications.newberry.org/digitalexhibitions/exhibits/show/mexicanrevolution/intro <http://publications.newberry.org/digitalexhibitions/exhibits/show/mexicanrevolution/intro> 
> It includes examples of images from José Guadalupe Posada: Art of the Mexican Revolution. Copyright and technical information is displayed on the website.
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> FRAGEN  <http://www.fragen.nu/aletta/fragen> 
> http://www.fragen.nu/aletta/fragen
> Fragen (FRAmes on GENder) is an electronic library of full text feminist works published since the 1960s. It was the result of a pan-European digitization project; The Women's Library was the UK project partner and joined 28 other women's libraries, archives and organisations across Europe in choosing key titles of feminist theory. The site provides free access to books, articles. Browse by country or search by keyword.
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> Lower Manhattan project <http://lmp.uqam.ca/credits> 
> http://lmp.uqam.ca/credits
> The Lower Manhattan Project/ Le project Lower Manhattan is an initiative of l'Équipe de recherche sur l'imaginaire contemporain, la littérature, les images et les nouvelles textualités (ERIC LINT) du Département du Département d> '> études littéraires de l> '> Université du Québec à Montréal (UQAM), It is listing and analysing literature, fiction and cultural objects covering the representation and construction of the mythology of September 11. it lists a bibliography of over 1,000 items, plus news stories events and articles. Some materials are offered in French only.
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> The International Political Science (IPSA) and International Review of Political Science (IPSR) announce the creation of the Meisel-Laponce Award for high quality articles. All 6 nominated articles are offered free of charge on the website <http://ips.sagepub.com/cgi/collection/meisel-laponce>  http://ips.sagepub.com/cgi/collection/meisel-laponce 
> until 2012. They are Jørgen Møller, and Svend-Erik Skaaning Beyond the Radial Delusion: Conceptualizing and Measuring Democracy and Non-democracy; Rollin F. Tusalem Determinants of Coup d> '> État Events 1970> -> 90: The Role of Property Rights Protection; Chelsea Brown Democracy> '> s Friend or Foe? The Effects of Recent IMF Conditional Lending in Latin America; Joakim Ekman Political Participation and Regime Stability: A Framework for Analyzing Hybrid Regimes; Judith A. Teichman Competing Visions of Democracy and Development in the Era of Neoliberalism in Mexico and Chile; Daniel Oesch ; Explaining Workers' Support for Right-Wing Populist Parties in Western Europe: Evidence from Austria, Belgium, France, Norway, and Switzerland 
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> David Livingstone Spectral Project <http://livingstone.library.ucla.edu/index.htm> 
> http://livingstone.library.ucla.edu/index.htm
> The David Livingstone Spectral Imaging Project is a collaborative, international effort to use spectral imaging technology and digital publishing to make available a series of faded, illegible texts produced by the famous Victorian explorer when stranded without ink or writing paper in Central Africa. Collaborators include Birkbeck College. One item recently digitised is the Livingstone> '> s Letter from Bambarre 1871 which is annotated with notes on its importance for scholars of the British Empire. Associated with this is UCL> '> s Livingstone Online <http://livingstone.library.ucla.edu/index.htm>    http://livingstone.library.ucla.edu/index.htm which currently has images/transcripts of key letters and manuscripts from the explorer plus biographical information, bibliographies of further readings and a historical companion of background articles about Livingstone.
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> energy.publicdata.eu > ->  Europe's energy <http://energy.publicdata.eu/ee/ > 
> http://energy.publicdata.eu/ee/
> An Open Knowledge Foundation Project which aims to provide open transparent information to understand progress of individual eu nations towards reducing greenhouse gas emissions and climate change targets. Data mainly taken from is mainly based on data from Eurostat, the statistical office of the European Union, visual graphics of greenhouse gas emissions, renewable energy.
> Other sources are Eurostat <http://epp.eurostat.ec.europa.eu/portal/page/portal/energy/data/main_tables>  http://epp.eurostat.ec.europa.eu/portal/page/portal/energy/data/main_tables
> Basic international energy statistics are on the International Energy Agency website <http://www.iea.org/stats/index.asp> .http://www.iea.org/stats/index.asp  IEA More detailed data is also available for subscribers of oecd ilibrary. 
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