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Here is the latest round up of new and Interesting websites for social scientists.



Commonwealth Heads of Government Summit
Took place this week . Try our special blog posting for all the free links.<https://alissresearch.blogspot.co.uk/2018/04/commonwealth-heads-of-government-meeting.html>
These include think tanks and official government sources.

Syria military action
Prime minister's statement 14th April.<https://www.gov.uk/government/speeches/pms-press-conference-statement-on-syria-14-april-2013>
UK Government legal position documents.<https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/syria-action-uk-government-legal-position>
This UK website<https://www.gov.uk/government/topical-events/syria-uk-military-action> is linking to all statements, speeches and UK government position documents.
The House of Commons Library<https://researchbriefings.parliament.uk/ResearchBriefing/Summary/CBP-7166> has  published this briefing on Parliamentary Approval for Military Action.
And the Legal basis for air strikes against Syrian Government targets.<https://researchbriefings.parliament.uk/ResearchBriefing/Summary/CBP-8287>

Reaction.
UK Labour Party<https://labour.org.uk/press/jeremy-corbyn-responds-syria-airstrikes/>
Stop the War Coalition.<http://www.stopwar.org.uk/index.php/usa-war-on-terror/476-pakistan-the-ally-america-loves-to-hate>
US secretary of state website<https://www.state.gov/p/nea/ci/sy/>
G7 leaders statement.<https://pm.gc.ca/eng/news/2018/04/16/g7-leaders-statement-syria>
Nato<https://www.nato.int/cps/en/natohq/news_153670.htm>
EU response.<https://eeas.europa.eu/headquarters/headquarters-Homepage/22664/eu-and-crisis-syria_en>
UN documents and press releases<http://www.un.org/apps/news/infocusRel.asp?infocusID=146>
OPCW statements.<https://www.opcw.org/special-sections/syria/press-releases/>
For more background information on this see our previous blog posting on chemical weapons and Syria resources.<https://alissresearch.blogspot.co.uk/2018/04/syria-and-chemical-weapons-get-some.html>


Brexit negotiations.
Reach the next stage this week.
Keep up to date on our blog.<https://socialsciencecurrentwareness.blogspot.co.uk/2018/04/brexit-reports-this-week_16.html> Where we put weekly links to new papers and reports free online. This week links to the latest background papers from the British government.

Historiography of Early Modern Ottoman Europe database
This useful resource for historians<https://hoe.ub.rub.de/> has been created as a project by the Chair for the History of the Ottoman Empire and Modern Turkey of Ruhr-Universität Bochum and the University Library Bochum. It aims to provide a bibliography of key published and unpublished historical sources and archival materials relevant to the history writing of Early Modern Ottoman Europe from the 15th-18th centuries.
Entries provide information about the source . They also indicate if the  item is available online. It is possible to browse entries by date, person, area and type of resource. The tools section of the website provides information on major catalogues and reference discovery materials.


Chinese Language day
April 20th is designated by the United Nations as Chinese Language day<http://www.un.org/zh/events/chineselanguageday/>
it seeks to celebrate multilingualism and cultural diversity.
Some great recommended resources are: Chinese Foreign Policy Database <http://digitalarchive.wilsoncenter.org/theme/chinese-foreign-policy-database>
from the Wilson Center which provides a marvellous reference source for Chinese foreign policy from 1949 onwards. It includes a timeline and chronology of key events. Thematic sections and biographies. It includes hundreds of full text chinese and international government documents offering a range of perspectives on events. Mainly 1949-2000. Some are declassified materials.

Chinese Digital Archive 1966-1976 (ANU)<https://digitalcollections.anu.edu.au/handle/1885/7575> More than 400 digitized documents dealing with the Cultural Revolution free online.
National Social Sciences Database China<http://www.nssd.org/>
Free database of government-funded Chinese social sciences journals. Coverage varies, but includes in most cases materials post 2012 . Individual registration required.

Historiography of Early Modern Ottoman Europe" (HOE) Database
gesisDataSearch: "A Data Discovery Index for the Social Sciences
Now in beta,  a new tool which will enable researchers to quickly identify high quality social and economic datasets. It is described more fully in this article.<https://www.nature.com/articles/sdata201864> But basically it aims to use Data Documentation Initiative metadata to harvest records from a number of separate high quality sources including  German GESIS Data Archive (https://www.gesis.org/en/services/data-analysis/), and the US American Data Archive ICPSR. The aim is to  enable searchers to conduct key word searches in one place
Then sort the results by date, type of survey (includes numeric, spss files, voting pols, opinion polls. Try it out in the Beta search<http://datasearch.gesis.org/>

If you are interested in data you might also like to take a look at the
OpenMinTeD websuiite.<http://openminted.eu/> This European project is aiming to create an infrastructure that fosters and facilitates the use of text mining technologies in scientific publications worldwide. It has recently been developing infographics to demonstrate usage in food microbiology. See  this posting -what organisms live in my cheese?<http://openminted.eu/what-microorganisms-live-in-my-cheese/> The website also has some articles and video content explaining why text and datamining could be key to different types of scientists.


Open access theses and dissertations
OpenDissertations.org,<https://biblioboard.com/opendissertations/>  a project from EBSCO Information Services<http://www.ebsco.com/> (EBSCO) and BiblioLabs<https://biblioboard.com/openaccess/>, has now been officially been  launched . It lists more than 800,000 Electronic Theses and Dissertations (ETD). It includes any electronic theses listed in the British Library's EThOS Service<http://ethos.bl.uk/Home.do> as well as material listed in American doctoral theses and masters theses. Seach by aiuthor , keyword and date. There are links through to catalogue records where the facility to download is  often available
Another well recommended theses online catalogue search is . NDLTD, the Networked Digital Library of Theses and Dissertations.<http://www.ndltd.org/resources/find-etds> NDLTD provides information and a search engine<http://www.ndltd.org/find> for electronic theses and dissertations (ETDs), whether they are open access or not. It also has detailed information on projects for digitisation worldwide.
DART Europe e-theses portal<http://www.dart-europe.eu/basic-search.php> which now includes 764,667 open access research theses from 613<http://www.dart-europe.eu/browse-list.php?index=institution> Universities in 28<http://www.dart-europe.eu/browse-list.php?index=country> European countries

Who were the suffrage artists?
Now available a podcast from Elizabeth Crawford which took part as part of the LSE Suffrage 18 events.
Scroll down to Talk podcast and videos section<http://www.lse.ac.uk/library/suffrage18>
 Then click on the image to hear the one hour broadcast. Which is based on her most recent book art and suffrage<https://womanandhersphere.com/>
Also you can explore some examples of visual imagery in some of the LSE marvellous Suffrage banners.<https://www.flickr.com/photos/lselibrary/sets/72157660179759073/>


Enjoying the sun - thinking of the seaside?
Thomas Cook has some wonderful on the history of travel<https://www.thomascook.com/thomas-cook-history/>
There are Wonderful online images from their archives<http://explore.thomascook.com/>. Did you know that Thomas cook offered pilgrimages to Mecca? This page from the British Museum has some tickets and travel documents http://www.britishmuseum.org/explore/themes/hajj/the_journey/routes/across_the_indian_ocean/from_the_indian_subcontinent.aspx

Best wishes
Heather Dawson
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