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Here is the latest round up of new and notable social science sites of the week.
Remember to check our blog. http://lselibraryresearch.blogspot.co.uk/2012/07/social-science-sites-of-week_26.html
http://www.open.ac.uk/blogs/innovating/
Free access to this useful new report from the Open University
The 38 page report explores new forms of teaching learning and assessment, covering 10 themes in detail. Similar to the American Educause Horizon reports http://www.educause.edu/library/resources/2012-horizon-report it predicts new trends and provides useful links to associated websites with examples: areas covered include: eBooks, personal inquiry learning, seamless learning and badges to accredit learning
Memories of war.org
http://www.memoriesofwar.org.uk/
Useful oral history site covering the experiences of people from London and the South East during the Second World War. The project is being led by Led by Dr June Balshaw and Malin Lundin from the University of Greenwich. It provides free access to materials from over 200 civilians, evacuees and members of the armed services. The site is subdivided into thematic topics including evacuation, http://www.memoriesofwar.org.uk/page_id__60_path__0p12p32p.aspx home front, blitz, women at war, British prisoners of war. The site also includes some resources for teachers with lesson plans for key stage 3 pupils. http://www.memoriesofwar.org.uk/category_id__21_path__0p1p.aspx
How happy are you?
Measuring Subjective Wellbeing in the UK, First Annual ONS Experimental Subjective Well-being Results
http://www.ons.gov.uk/ons/rel/wellbeing/measuring-subjective-wellbeing-in-the-uk/first-annual-ons-experimental-subjective-well-being-results/index.html
was released this week by the Office of National Statistics. Release includes statistical tables by geographical location.
The Guardian has a good graph of locations http://www.guardian.co.uk/news/datablog/interactive/2012/jul/24/happiness-wellbeing-map-britain For an international comparison Gallup launched a world pessimism index - which concluded that Greeks were most unhappy! http://www.gallup.com/poll/156137/Worldwide-Greeks-Pessimistic-Lives.aspx
The New Economics Foundation site http://neweconomics.org/blog/2012/07/24/mapping-well-being-in-the-uk has some comment. It continues to produce the alternative worldwide. Happy Planet index. http://www.happyplanetindex.org/
Some interesting discussion- including podcasts on wellbeing and economics can also be found on the All Party parliamentary group website http://parliamentarywellbeinggroup.org.uk/
United Nations Social Development Network (UNSDN)
http://unsdn.org/
This new web portal was launched by the Division for Social Policy and Development (DSPD) of the Department of Economic and Social Affairs (DSPD/DESA) as a pilot project, aiming to share knowledge and good practices among social development professionals worldwide on ageing, civil society, cooperatives, disability, employment, family, indigenous peoples, poverty, social integration, technology and youth. It includes a section on best practices and empowerment. Links are provided to news stories, UN projects, events and publications.
British Library Release free sports oral history collection.
http://sounds.bl.uk/Oral-history/Sport%20
Free access to interviews and recording s of famous British athletes. Those available include
Sebastian Coe (on Olympics wins and drugs in sport) , Tanni Grey-Tompson (on disability and sport)
Hopefully not one for the Olympics!
Crowd Behaviour Network
http://www.crowdbehaviournetwork.org/
Recently launched international forum for academic research on crown behaviour, management and safety. Currently includes news and recent UK government sponsored reports on understanding crowd behaviours. http://crowdbehaviournetwork.org/work/research/
Syria Maps
UNITAR (Un satellite) specializes in refugee war zone data. Latest releases are Syria refugee camps. http://www.unitar.org/unosat/maps
The UN cartographic section also has general and peace keeping maps for Syria. The latter are dated early July 2012. http://www.un.org/Depts/Cartographic/english/htmain.htm
The Perry-Castaņeda Library Map Collection http://www.lib.utexas.edu/maps/syria.html
Have some political maps of Syria from the CIA collections. Check date of production as some are historic. The main home page http://www.lib.utexas.edu/maps/ also has links to other maps of fighting in the region compiled by news services such as the BBC and user generated from Google.
Library and Archives Canada YouTube channel
http://www.youtube.com/user/LibraryArchiveCanada
Increasingly releasing major new films see details of films on immigration to Canada in the 1920s. http://www.bac-lac.gc.ca/eng/news/Pages/release-of-silent-film-on-youtube.aspx
Other major Canadian sources of free film.
Hotdocs documentary library http://hotdocslibrary.ca/en/
This site is supported by the Department of Canadian Heritage. It provides free access to a large growing collection of documentary films from Canadian film makers
NFB.ca a free website where you can watch films produced by the National Film Board of Canada. It is possible to view over 500 documentaries online. These include clips, short and full length features
http://nfb.ca/
CASSIR: Cross-archive search for Indian repositories.
http://casin.ncsi.iisc.ernet.in/oai/index.php/browse
This project is being carried out at National Centre for Science Information (NCSI), Indian Institute of Science (IISc), and Bangalore with the support of the Department of Scientific & Industrial Research, Ministry of Science & Technology, and Government of India. It is aiming to develop a large cross searchable portal of Indian open access repositories. It currently harvests from 33 containing reports, theses and other bibliographic references.
See this paper for discussion of coverage. http://%20eprints.iisc.ernet.in/43176/1/fj-minj_drtc_ictk_final.pdf
Chicago History Museum online collection.
http://digitalcollection.chicagohistory.org/cdm/
Useful for social historians of fashion and great fund to look at! With over 50,000 costumes and textile artifacts from the mid-18th century to the present, the Chicago History Museum’s Costume Collection is the second largest in the world and one of the nation’s most complete fashion repositories. Its online website provides free access to over 400 images from its textile and costume collection.
Browse by date, type of garment or designer the later include Dior. Entries have dates and object history.
Heather Dawson
LSE Library