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Here is the latest round up of new and interesting sites
In the news this week
18th July was Nelson Mandela day find out more about this
UN day in our recent blog posting.
Republican Convention.
Also took place in Cleveland. Find out more about the candidate and platform adopted in
our elections blog posting.
USA Today have created a website which provides information on the numerous cases of litigation in which the business empire of Donald Trump has been involved. It
lists over 4,000 cases in the last 30 years.
Brexit resources.
The Fawcett Society headed a coalition of organisations to launch the
Face her future campaign to protect Uk women’s rights post Brexit . See the other
signatories on the Fawcett press release
We are continuing to link to key online reports and papers covering brexit analysis from think tanks, academics and leading organisations on our
current awareness blog . This week surveys on job prospects from CIPD and an analysis of foreign policy post Brexit from Policy Exchange
New Social Science open access archive launched.
SocArXiv , being
developed in association with Center for Open Science and an international research body of advisors
will provide free open access to social science research papers . A
temporary home allows researchers to search and browse the pre prints which have already been loaded.
Trident
Parliament has voted to renew Trident
Get some background on the history of this decision, its context in British foreign policy and implications by downloading the excellent summary research briefing from the
House of Commons Library which was prepared on the 11th July 2016. This summarises previous UK government documents, parliamentary debates and the viewpoints of key stake holders.
For more information on UK Nuclear deterrent policy see the
UK government website
BASIC has been running its own Trident commission considering the alternatives download the report and summary from its website. It also has a response to this week’s decision. Other
useful responses include:
RUSI which has published a paper on future nuclear threats to the UK
Oxford research group briefings on UK defence policy
Centre for International Studies & Diplomacy at SOAS, new study;
'Trident - Strategic Dependence & Sovereignty'.
Retiring Trident Centreforum paper 2015
CND opposes trident see its briefings on high costs
It also has a
no to trident campaign
Trident ploughshares anti trident campaign
Free access to PASCAL and FRANCIS journal index archives
These major journal indexes are produced by leading French institution Inist-CNRS. Their archives have now been made open access on the internet enabling researchers to quickly search
by keyword for references to journal articles and reports covering a wide range of social science topics.
Pascal is scientific in focus it covers 1984-2015 . Has 6 main themes. Energy, environmental issues, materials, nanotechnology, safety, cognition, digital communication
FRANCIS 1972-2015. Focuses upon the humanities and social sciences.
Both databases have high percentages of references to European language materials. Many references contain abstracts. Conference proceedings are also indexed.
According to a new report by the
Resolution foundation. See also some interesting comment on declining home ownership and living standards for the
young from the Guardian.
The Resolution Foundation has referred to stagnation generation and raised concerns that millennials will earn less than previous generations. See its new website the
Intergenerational Commission which is examining fairness between generations.
The
Equality and Human rights Commission Report is Britain fairer report? Also reviewed evidence of a decline in social mobility in modern UK
Media Pluralism Monitor 2015 launched
The Media Pluralism Monitor is conducted by the Centre for Media Pluralism and Media Freedom it aims to measure legal, economic and socio-cultural risks to media pluralism in EU
nations. It is therefore a useful measure of the extent of media freedom. Topics covered include: media ownership, political independence of the media and social inclusiveness. The full methodology is provided on the website. Monitors issued since 2014 can
be downloaded from the website. the 2015 monitor cover 19 European nations. UK was excluded.
For more recent reports on media and communication studies see our
free scoop.it page
How much is the Ocean worth?
Mapping Ocean wealth is an interesting website from
The Nature Conservancy (TNC) which seeks to quantify the economic value of oceans and marine resources worldwide. Its
Atlas of ocean wealth maps the economic, social and cultural value of oceans and coastal areas.
Identities: Understanding Islam in a Cross-Cultural Context
Finally
If you are enjoying the hot weather at the moment.
So how it compares with weather extremes worldwide using the World Weather Extremes climate archive hosted by
Arizona State University for the World Meteorological Organization This has maps where you can locate the highest and lowest temperatures in continents worldwide.
Getty Images has some photographs from the hot summer of 1976
Heather Dawson