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Dear all here is the latest round up of Social science sites of the week In the news this week Iran Nuclear Treaty As Iran pulls out of the nuclear deal<http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-us-canada-44045957> use these resources to find out more. What is the Iran treaty? On July 14, 2015, the P5+1 (China, France, Germany, Russia, the United Kingdom, and the United States), the European Union (EU), and Iran reached a Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action (JCPOA) to ensure that Iran's nuclear program will be exclusively peaceful . The Department of state website <https://www.state.gov/e/eb/tfs/spi/iran/jcpoa/> has the text of the agreement IAEA is conducting the verification programme see its statements and reports.<https://www.iaea.org/newscenter/focus/iran> Reaction. Joint statement from Prime Minister May, Chancellor Merkel and President Macron following President Trump's statement on Iran <https://www.gov.uk/government/news/joint-statement-from-prime-minister-may-chancellor-merkel-and-president-macron-following-president-trumps-statement-on-iran> EU statement <http://www.consilium.europa.eu/en/press/press-releases/2018/05/09/declaration-by-the-high-representative-on-behalf-of-the-eu-following-us-president-trump-s-announcement-on-the-iran-nuclear-deal-jcpoa/> See some more in our blog<https://alissresearch.blogspot.co.uk/2018/05/iran-nuclear-treaty-get-some-facts-from.html> Lebanon elections. IFES<http://www.electionguide.org/elections/id/3057/> has background information on the system and lists of current and previous results. UNDP elections assistance projec<https://lebanon-elections.org/>t has information on the administration , electoral law and programmes to improve democracy Official Lebanese government<http://elections.gov.lb/Home.aspx?lang=en-US> website has news and results (Most Arabic) Election Observation. NDI <https://www.ndi.org/middle-east-and-north-africa/lebanon> EU mission<https://eeas.europa.eu/headquarters/headquarters-homepage/42203/european-union-election-observation-mission-lebanon-2018_en> For some useful links consult our special election blog.<https://electionsinthenews.blogspot.co.uk/2018/05/lebanon-elections-2018-did-hezbollah-win.html> Syrian Archives Chemical weapons database The Syrian Archive aims to support human rights investigators, advocates, media reporters, and journalists in their efforts to document human rights violations in Syria. Its website collects reports of attacks on journalists and human rights violations. It now has a database of chemical weapons attacks<https://syrianarchive.org/en/collections/chemical-weapons/database> materials. Currently verified 861 videos from 193 sources covering some 212 attacks 'Mental Health care letting down students' According to the latest report released this week by Universities UK<http://www.universitiesuk.ac.uk/policy-and-analysis/reports/Pages/minding-our-future-starting-a-conversation-support-student-mental-health.aspx> which considers a better coordination between universities and NHS mental health care providers. See more reports on UK Higher education on our scoop.it page<https://www.scoop.it/t/higher-education-news-for-libraries-and-librarians> Irish Independence film collection. Free access via the Irish Film Institute player<https://ifiplayer.ie/independencefilms/> to this great collection of British news reel films covering the period 1900-1930 with such key events as WW1, the Easter Rising, the War of Independence, the Irish Civil War. Browse by timeline or key events. . Each entry has description technical information and credits. Big data and society Our Data and society scoop.it page<https://www.scoop.it/t/data-and-society> is continuing to collect links to recent new reports covering data and society Consumer Data and research from UCL Press considers the potential of data<http://www.ucl.ac.uk/ucl-press/browse-books/consumer-data-research> supplied by smart phones, supermarkets etc to transform social science research However released this week an amnesty International report on the Gangs database<https://www.amnesty.org.uk/files/reports/Trapped%20in%20the%20Matrix%20Amnesty%20report.pdf> found 'racial discrimination' in the collecting of data by Metropolitan police service. The Influence Industry: The Global Business of Using Your Data in Elections.<https://ourdataourselves.tacticaltech.org/posts/influence-industry/> Tactical tech is monitoring these issues and will be releasing reports over the coming months'Maintaining power: how are data and digital influence techniques used in-between elections?' - 'What are the options for monitoring and controlling digital influence in political campaigning?' - 'Money, power and right-wing experiments in digital influencing. Archiving activism. The aim of this worthy project is to explore the ways in which radical, feminist, and at times illegal, protest actions are archived. The project was initiated by Rachel Tavernor during a three month PhD placement at the British Library (funded by the Arts and Humanities Research Council). The website includes two strands. The first, is a curated collection of resources<https://archivingactivism.com/category/resources/> on archiving activism. How do libraries and archives decide what to collect and store them. The second section hopes to develop a section on the range of activist archives held at the British library. These are currently being developed but include sections on housing and animal rights. TUC 150 To celebrate is founding 150 years ago the TUC is creating its 150 voices<https://tuc150.tuc.org.uk/explore-all-stories/> to capture inspiring stories about trade unionists. They include early women socialists as well as more recent oral histories from strikes and industrial disputes The TUC already has a great digital library of key documents and images from its history. On the Union makes us strong website<http://www.unionhistory.info/>. It includes details of the Matchworkers strike, the General strike of 1926 and TUC annual reports. There is also a section on workers during the second world war which has online posters and accounts from working men and women. Equal pay struggle which details major disputes using documents, images and oral history. The most recent addition is the Britain at work 1945-1995 which has a rich collection of oral histories on working lives themes include workers education, race, health and safety at work, women at work and employment law. Finally - a visual treat. Monet was Here The National Gallery in London is currently showing The Credit Suisse Exhibition: Monet & Architecture (on view through July 29, 2018), Google Arts and Culture has curated Monet Was Here<https://artsandculture.google.com/project/monetwashere>: an online exhibition featuring Monet's travel-inspired works from over 18 collections. They include sections from London, Rouen , Paris and Venice you can view locations on google maps and learn more about the places in stories about individual paintings. For instance in the foggy London<https://artsandculture.google.com/story/VwKyDFXzPLGdIg> section I learnt the tower bridge was new and when Monet painted it and you can see the workmen completing the embankment in this painting! Best wishes Heather Dawson [log in to unmask]<mailto:[log in to unmask]>