Canadian women directors
Canadian women film directors database Compiled by Margaret Fulford, a librarian at the University of Toronto. This database is a great bilingual research tool containing bibliographies, filmographies, quotations, and other information about over 1,600 Canadian women directors and their films. It has timelines of key events, a bibliography of key articles about women directors as well […]
Pacific Manuscript Bureau
Pacific Manuscript Bureau is useful tool for researchers of ethnography and colonial, social, political history of the region. The online resources page details digitisation projects including photographs Also see links to a recent New Guinea photo index which provides a listing of collections in different archives and libraries worldwide.
African Law resource
AfricanLII is an open-access research platform for African law jointly operated by the AfricanLII based at University of Cape Town and Laws.Africa. AfricanLII aims to provide free access to legal materials from the African Union as well as a network of national legal institutes. There are currently about 16 of these. Get links to full text […]
Global Social Challenges Journal
New from Bristol University press Global Social Challenges Journal, a non-profit, open access publication with a mission to address urgent global social issues across disciplines, fields and geographies. It will publish on 16 themes which are connected to the UN’s Sustainable Development Goals.
Using Data and Analytics in HE
Data and Analytics- EDUCAUSE 2022 This report from EDUCAUSE is useful in keeping track of recent and emerging technologies relating to data and analytics in the Higher Education landscape. Areas identified are: • Data Management and Governance • Unifying Data Sources • Modern Data Architecture •Data Literacy Training • DEI for Data and Analytics • Assessing and Improving Institutional […]
African American Student Project
Database – African American Student Project University of Michigan resource covering 1853-1970 which documents and maps black students enrolled at the university. It is searchable by year subject and name. There are also interesting infographics showing where the students lived, data on statistics for enrolment by year and for male and female students .
Getty Images: Black History and Culture
Black History and Culture Collection – Getty Images Getty images is developing a database relating to photographic images of the black experience in the USA and UK. It is currently being offered free of charge for online viewing but may become more commercial in the future. Consult the site for advice on copyright and rights. Click on preview to […]
BBC rewind
BBC rewind The Rewind archive contains tens of thousands of individual clips from the BBC’s news and current affairs output from across the UK, including both regional and national programmes, from the late 1940s to 2021. Nationwide, 24 Hours, Tonight, Midweek, Everyman, Monitor, Man Alive, Newsnight, Countryfile and The One Show are covered. Short clips […]
Global Gender Gap Report 2022
Global Gender Gap Report 2022 | World Economic Forum (weforum.org) Get information on the trends from 2020. The report records that it will take another 132 years to close the gap. The website also has infographics and information on economy trends worldwide. The full methodology is provided on the website.
Atlas of Economic Complexity
A resource from Harvard University which maps accurate real data on global trade worldwide enabling great data visualizations. Topics covered include: Country files Growth projections to 2027 downloadable data such as International Trade Data Country-Product-Year Country-Partner-Product-Year Growth Projections and Complexity Rankings
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