Search where you will find most: Comparing the disciplinary coverage of 56 bibliographic databases
Michael Gusenbauer
Scientometrics volume 127, pages2683–2745 (2022)
Interesting open access article. Find out which databases will retrieve the beast results for academic subjects. Has tables comparing commercial and free sources including Google scholar.
Voyage to Madagascar: Thomas Locke Lewis and the Anglo-Merina Treaty of 1817
fascinating online exhibition curated by Conal Priest, an MA History student at King’s College London who was an intern in KCL special collections during 2020
Lieutenant Thomas Locke Lewis (ca 1780-1852) was part of the 1817 British diplomatic and commercial mission to King Radama of Madagascar, which resulted in a treaty of formal alliance between the two countries. The mission was sponsored by Robert Farquhar (1776-1830), governor of Mauritius. The manuscript includes an account of colonialism. The exhibition has a gallery of images , transcriptions and details about colonialism and details about the lives of the indigenous people
Archive-It - War in Ukraine: 2022
by Liladhar R. Pendse, Librarian for East European, Central European, Central Asian and Armenian Studies Collections, UC Berkeley has worked with partners to web archive key sources relating to the 2022 Ukraine conflict
it has seven distinct sections, or collections:
Russian Language Media
The Separatist Enclaves
Ukraine: Educational and Cultural Institutions
Ukraine: NGOs and Social Media
Ukraine: News
Ukrainian Governmental Websites
Ukrainian Public Figures/ Ministries on Twitter
the site aims to preserve writings and images for the future and to be searchable.
Yemen Truce Monitor - ACLED (acleddata.com)
Updated weekly tracking violations of the truce in Yemen which was agreed in April 2022. The site also is aso collected in partnership with the Yemen Data Project, which is tracking air raids during the truce. Subscribe for their weekly updates.
Caribbean Takeaway Takeover: Identities and Stories
oral histories of ten Caribbean elders from the Windrush generation, who arrived in the UK between the 1940s-1960s, have been recorded and shared on this website which offers insight into their experiences, identity and history
The Protracted Displacement economies project launched in September 2020 and runs until August 2023. it aims to focus on
longer-term development responses to protracted displacement (more than 5 years) rather than immediate humanitarian aid. It includes articles data related to feminist economics, mutual ai and development economics
countries covered:
DRC
Ethiopia
Lebanon
Myanmar
Pakistan
Rainbow Europe 2022
The Rainbow Map and Index produced by ILGA-Europe’s ranks 49 European countries on their legal and policy practices for LGBTI people. 7 themes are covered
equality and non-discrimination; family; hate crime and hate speech; legal gender recognition; intersex bodily integrity; civil society space; and asylum. The site contains all indexes since 2009 allowing longitudinal analyses.
best wishes
Heather Dawson