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> Here is the latest update from Intute > > > Note that over the coming months you are likely to see a reduction in > the number of new items added to Intute due to the previously > announced funding cut > http://www.intute.ac.uk/blog/2009/12/16/jisc-announces-intute-funding- > cut/ > However, I will continue to alert major new sites via the blog. > http://www.intute.ac.uk/blog/ > You might also want to look at the LSE library blog which lists new > social science publications http://lselibraryresearch.blogspot.com/ > > There is also a new elections in the news blog > http://electionsinthenews.blogspot.com/ > > In the news: Oil spill > > GeoPlatform.gov > http://www.geoplatform.gov/gulfresponse/ > Developed by the US National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration. > This site draws together in one place an interactive mapping of all > the official US government responses to the oil spill. It includes > news from the U.S. Coast Guard, and the Department of Interior. Take a > look at the map for trajectories of the oil spill, locations of the > clean up effort, weather forecasts and trajectory predictions. > National Archive Labs. > http://labs.nationalarchives.gov.uk/wordpress/ > This fascinating site has been created by the U.K National Archives as > a test area to showcase and test digitization projects. You can take a > look at the latest ongoing work and give your feedback. Current > examples include online Valuation office survey maps of England, > historic photograph collections. Find out about the latest projects > before they are fully integrated into the national Archives website! > > Political reform.ie > http://politicalreform.ie/ > A useful blog maintained by the Political Studies Association of > Ireland <http://www.psai.ie/default.asp> (PSAI).with contributions > from the main Irish universities. It provides news, comment and > analysis of political reform in Ireland. Recent topics discussed > include political parties, the economic crisis and the results of the > latest public opinion polls. There are links to over major blogs > covering Irish politics. > > US National Strategy Documents digital Library > https://digitalndulibrary.ndu.edu/cdm4/search_strategy.php > A new digital collection from the national defense University Library. > Features a comprehensive collection of the official version of every > U.S. National Security Strategy released by the U.S. Government, > accompanied by other major strategy documents, such as Military > Strategies, Defense Strategies, the Quadrennial Defense Review report, > and strategies focusing on terrorism, homeland security, cyber > security, and weapons of mass destruction. Cover from the Reagan > administration (1980s) onwards. Categories which can be browsed > include: pandemics, homeland security, and policy in Afghanistan, > Iraq, terrorism, narcotics and cyber security. > > LENUS - Irish Health repository. > http://www.lenus.ie/hse/ > an open Access repository maintained for the Health Service Executive, > Ireland by Regional Library & Information Service at Dr. Steevens' > Hospital, Dublin. It provides free access to full text government > reports, theses, published journal articles (where copyright allows). > There are subsections on public health, children and young peoples > services, mental health, community health, codes of conduct. There are > some historic materials from the 1960s onwards. > > WIPO GOLD > http://www.wipo.int/wipogold/en/ > > A site maintained by the World Intellectual Property organisation > (WIPO) which provides free access to WIPO information. Subsections > include: laws and treaties, WIPO standards, brandnames, decisions on > domain names,. The statistics section includes data on trademark > registrations; World Intellectual Property Indicators 2009. The > Patentscope section enables users to search for recent invention and > patent applications. > > CitizenTube > http://www.citizentube.com/ > Working In partnership with the Graduate school of Journalism > University of California at Berkeley YouTube is trailing the > CitzenTube service. This aims to be a news feed service. It hopes to > avoid the problem of breaking news stories being buried amongst > uploaded videos by drawing together the most notable ones from > professional and amateur journalists in one place. It is possible to > contribute to the service by tweeting examples of uploaded news to > (@citizentube) with context. The site includes the latest examples, > plus a blog. > > PLEIADI <http://www.openarchives.it/pleiadi/> , > http://www.openarchives.it/pleiadi/modules/openarchives/ > the "Portale per la Letteratura scientifica Elettronica Italiana su > Archivi aperti e Depositi Istituzionali," is a project which is > creating a central portal to all information held in Italian open > access archives. Its website contains project news and a searchable > database. The database has entries for articles, theses, conference > papers and books and technical reports. All subject areas from the > humanities, social sciences and sciences are covered. The site can be > searched in English or Italian, although many items are available in > Italian only. Full text is offered online where copyright allows. > > photoLondon: gateway to London's public photographic collections > http://www.photolondon.org.uk/pages/highlights.asp > A site maintained by a consortium of leading London research > institutions and archives: Guildhall Library, Museum of London, London > Metropolitan Archives, Westminster City Archives, National Monuments > record. It currently offers a database of approximately 9,000 > biographical entries about photographic companies and the people who > worked within the photographic industry in London during the 19th > century. Some entries include sample photographs. > > Oneplace > http://oneplace.direct.gov.uk/Pages/default.aspx > Oneplace provides independent information on local issues in England.. > Members of the public can search for assessments of their local police > forces, councils, fire services , NHS. It is also possible to look at > performance indicators for public services for a particular town, or > region at a local neighbourhood level. > > Not new but recommended. > African Elections Project > http://www.africanelections.org/ > a special project of the International Institute for ICT Journalism > www.penplusbytes.org working hand in partnership with other > organisations including the Open Society Initiative for West Africa. > It aims to develop ICT and technology in African nations to enable the > media and political organisations to use technology as a tool for > enhancing democracy during election campaigns. To the present time > efforts have been on concentrated mainly in a number of West African > nations: including Guinea, Guinea and the Ivory Coast. Typical country > files include surveys of elections, links to blogs, news stories, and > photographs . some materials are offered in French only. > See our other suggestions for the 2010 Guinea elections on > http://electionsinthenews.blogspot.com/ > > > Heather Dawson > [log in to unmask] > Please access the attached hyperlink for an important electronic communications disclaimer: http://www.lse.ac.uk/collections/planningAndCorporatePolicy/legalandComplianceTeam/legal/disclaimer.htm