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Political Science sites of the week Here is the latest round up of new and interesting sites for social scientists In the news this week. Ireland elections. Use our special elections blog posting<http://electionsinthenews.blogspot.co.uk/2016/02/ireland-elections-get-started-with-our.html> to get started with guides to the electoral system and the full text of the political manifestoes from the main parties. We also have a second posting with links to<http://electionsinthenews.blogspot.co.uk/2016/02/ireland-elections-follow-news-and.html> analysis and commentary. Irish Political studies journal has created a special virtual issue of articles - <http://explore.tandfonline.com/page/pgas/irish-political-studies-general-election-2016-virtual-special-issue> free access to articles it published on the 2007 election and the Irish political system EU referendum where do Eurosceptics live? YouGov this week revealed the 10 most Eurosceptic and EU friendly parts of the UK<https://yougov.co.uk/news/2016/02/28/eurosceptic-map-britain/>. Havering is most likely to vote out- along with Blackpool and Southend! For more indepth academic analysis of who supports and opposes EU membership see this recent article by John Curtice<http://whatukthinks.org/eu/wp-content/uploads/2015/10/Analysis-paper-1-Britain-divided.pdf>, Senior Research Fellow at NatCen and Professor of Politics at Strathclyde University Keep up to date with the latest polls using our free recommended resources.<http://electionsinthenews.blogspot.co.uk/2016/03/eu-referendum-resources-for-tracing.html> The European Parliament think tank has just published a study which provides an overview of rules relating to referendums and the funding of political parties and campaigns in EU Member states<http://www.europarl.europa.eu/thinktank/en/document.html?reference=IPOL_STU%282015%29519217> Other key papers published this week are listed on our blog<http://electionsinthenews.blogspot.co.uk/2016/03/eu-referendum-key-papers-this-week.html> UK Evidence ecosystem map updated New from the Alliance for Useful Evidence a map which charts producers, intermediaries and consumers of UK research evidence<http://www.alliance4usefulevidence.org/introducing-our-map-of-the-uk-evidence-world>. Useful for understanding the policy process. Explanations of the methodology are given on the website. 'Women still under represented in Uk higher education management positions in 2016' The latest report from non profit organisation Women Count<http://www.women-count.org/news_and_events/7> indexes the representation of women as governors, Chairs and Vice-Chancellors in each of the 166 HEIs in the UK that are publicly funded. It finds that although improvements have occurred since 2013., Women only hold 28% of Chancellor roles. Men are 78% of all Vice-Chancellors or Principals. Women have increased their share of these roles from 17% to 22% since the last report. Also this week another report conducted by the Academy of Science of South Africa<http://www.assaf.org.za/ASSAf%20news/ASSAF_IAP%20Report%20Final.pdf> (ASSAf women were found to be under represented in key scientific academic bodies in 69 nations. Britain did particularly poorly. In the UK, 6% of the Royal Society's 1,419 members were women in 2013-14. Find more recent free reports on women and gender on our scoop.it blog.<http://www.scoop.it/t/women-and-gender-studies> Rosa Parks digital collection Just released by the Library of Congress this great new online resource<https://www.loc.gov/collections/rosa-parks-papers/about-this-collection> celebrating the life, civil rights achievements and legacy of Rosa Parks who refusal to give up a seat to a white passenger , sparking the Montgomery Bus Boycott in the 1950s. It includes thousands of photographs, letters, manuscripts . See this key account of her arrest<https://www.loc.gov/resource/mss85943.001810/?sp=27>. Also available from the website are timelines and essays<https://www.loc.gov/collections/rosa-parks-papers/articles-and-essays/> setting the material in the context of civil rights and race relations in the USA and teaching materials on civil rights<http://www.loc.gov/teachers/classroommaterials/presentationsandactivities/presentations/civil-rights/> York's Archbishops Registers 1225-1650 Another great new political history resource are the digitised registers from the Archbishop of York.<https://archbishopsregisters.york.ac.uk/> They are one of the earliest sources of church, cultural and political history for the North of England in the Medieval period. It is possible to browse by people and place . Key topics include opinions on the black death<https://archbishopsregisters.york.ac.uk/browse/registers?folio=67®ister_id=k0698827w> and official evidence relating to Henry VIII's divorce from his fourth wife, Anne of Cleves.<https://archbishopsregisters.york.ac.uk/browse/registers?utf8=%E2%9C%93®ister_id=zp38wd88v&folio=309> See more details on the project website<https://www.york.ac.uk/borthwick/projects/archbishops-registers/> Gender statistics database European Institute for Gender Equality (EIGE) ( an autonomous body of the European Union) has just launched a new gender statistics database<eige.europa.eu/gender-statistics/> for researchers which enables easy comparisons between European and other nations. It includes indicators on men and women in decision making, EU strategy areas and many other policy areas ranging from health to education, work and employment. Print and download your own prehistoric bunny or fossil! Duke university has a scientific database called Morphosource<http://morphosource.org/> which has data and images on fossils, dinosaurs . Its blog<http://today.duke.edu/2016/02/virtualfossils> has now revealed how you can download and print 3d images. See this lesson plan<http://morphosource.org/index.php/Detail/ProjectDetail/Show/project_id/144> for the evolution of horse teeth from Paleoteach Heather Dawson [log in to unmask]<mailto:[log in to unmask]>