Presidential debates
See video footage and transcripts from the official Commission on presidential debates: http://www.debates.org/ There is a historical section with information on debates from 1858 onwards, in addition to coverage from the main US newspapers. http://www.debates.org/index.php?page=debate-history C-Span also has some coverage and pre and post-debate discussion on its website http://www.c-span.org/Debates/Events/Town-Hall-Presidential-Debate/10737434294-9/ The C-Span video library http://www.c-spanvideo.org/topic/54 has extensive footage […]
Political Union in the EU
A new project launched by LSE and Policy Network http://www.policy-network.net/news/3953/Political-Union-What-is-it-Do-we-need-it-How-could-it-work This will focus on Europe’s emerging political union. Key focuses of interest will be political issues surrounding the Eurozone crisis. The website has an introduction and events listing. This week other EU news included the award of the Nobel Prize. The LSE blog covers this and also […]
Asian Overview report – Social, digital and mobile media
http://wearesocial.sg/blog/2012/10/social-digital-mobile-asia/ Free access from the We are Social Media website to 100 slides of the latest facts and figures from around the region, including select highlights from each of the 24 countries covered. Key facts include: 1. There are now well over 1 billion internet users in Asia 2. At least 811 million of these […]
University of Rochester’s Empty Closet digital Archive
http://www.lib.rochester.edu/index.cfm?PAGE=4769 Free access to one of the longest running LGBT newspapers. The Gay Liberation Front launched the Empty Closet in 1971. All 438 issues from January 1971 to April 2011 are now online. Now published by the Gay Alliance of the Genesee Valley, the newspaper chronicles the gay rights movement, from the first gay pride […]
PSE: UK Poverty and social exclusion
http://www.poverty.ac.uk/ has just been re-launched, with a host of new features to improve access to the project data and findings. PSE: UK provides free access to definitions of poverty, the full text of In Poverty in the United Kingdom (1979), Peter Townsend and the latest research findings. Other key research groupson this topic include Centre for […]
League of Nations Archives
http://libraryresources.unog.ch/leagueofnationsarchives Intended primarily to provide information to researchers about the contents of the Geneva archive of the League of Nations research in general . It has a special thematic guide on disarmament. Links to key digitised collections can be found at: http://libraryresources.unog.ch/content.php?pid=279421&sid=2361880 These include: Sean Lester Papers (1929- ). Sean Lester (1888-1959), Irish journalist, diplomat and […]
TV News Search Borrow
http://archive.org/details/tv Internet Archive site. This service is designed to help USA citizens better understand the issues and candidates in the 2012 U.S. elections by allowing them to search closed captioning transcripts from relevant television news programmes. The collection now contains 350,000 news programmes collected over 3 years from national U.S. networks and stations in San […]
Social Sciences Directory
http://www.socialsciencesdirectory.com/index.php/socscidir/information/readers First issue of new web-based open-access publishing platform, aimed at the global academic research and higher education market: http://www.socialsciencesdirectory.com/index.php/socscidir It aims to provide a peer reviewed collection of short articles and research papers, thereby increasing open access to scholarly publication See the publication and submission policies: http://www.socialsciencesdirectory.com/index.php/socscidir/about
Tweeting #OWS
http://disc.library.emory.edu/ows/ A great new digital archive from Emory University. Ten million tweets about Occupy Wall Street have now been collected. The site includes timeline of key events, plus useful maps and word clouds which allow hastags and trends to be mapped over time. See the data analysis section for methodology and techniques: http://disc.library.emory.edu/ows/about/data-analysis/
Bishopsgate Institute Library and Archive: new online exhibitions
http://www.bishopsgate.org.uk/ Since 2010 the London based Bishopsgate Institute has been digitizing some of its major archival collections. Key strengths includes various collections on London, labour, freethought and radicalism. Recent additions include the Morning star photographic archive – view photographs this has over 300 online images relating to industrial relations, strikes and unions most from 1960s […]
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