EUScreen
Free online access to videos, stills, texts and audio from European broadcasters and audiovisual archives. Explore selected content from early 1900s until today. http://www.euscreen.eu/
International Encyclopedia of the Social and Behavioral Sciences
We now have access to the International Encyclopedia of the Social and Behavioral Sciences. Over 4,000 articles from leading authors in your field. Have a look at the encyclopedia here: http://ezproxy.lib.le.ac.uk/login?url=http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/referenceworks/9780080430768 Or you will find the encyclopedia by searching the library catalogue.
2012twit
http://2012twit.com/ A project which aims to provide real time coverage of the USA 2012 elections from Twitter. It looks at trending topics and recent tweets. There is also an interesting blog http://140elect.com/ with coverage of twitter tools and metrics. Currently it is covering controversy over the campaign to promote a minor candidate by retweeting. See […]
India Real Time
http://blogs.wsj.com/indiarealtime/ Useful readable blog with contributions from staff at the Wall Street Journal and Dow Jones newswire reporters. A heavy emphasis upon the economy, industry and financial markets. However also coverage of social trends including the Bollywood entertainment industry.
Stream Congress and Capitol Words
http://streamcongress.com/chrome A tool from the Sunlight foundation that combines in one web based application Tweets, YouTube videos and floor updates from members of Congress, making them into a single customized news feed. Instructions given on the website. Note usage requires Google Chrome to be installed. Also relaunched by the same group Capitol words. http://capitolwords.org/ Get data […]
Research from South Asia
http://www.esocialsciences.com/blog/index.asp A social sciences portal produced by south Asian scholars to promote research from India and the South Asian continent. Free registration required to access some aspects. Include links to events, working papers, and a good starting point for finding materials. Other useful sites relating to India include: Vidyanidhi, E-scholarship portal and Digital library which […]
Politics twitter feeds
Politicker USA http://www.politickerusa.com/ Good directory of twitter feeds from politicians, parties and USA presidential candidates. Follow them all in one place. Other good directories. Tweetminister http://tweetminster.co.uk/pages/about find UK MPs. Tweetcongress (USA) http://tweetcongress.org/
Sight and Sound – electronically
We now have access to Sight and Sound electronically from 01/01/2000 to date. It can be accessed on the Journals A-Z tab on the library home page and through the database Art Full Text: http://www.le.ac.uk/library/find/databases/a/artfulltext
Citing datasets
http://www.dcc.ac.uk/news/new-dcc-guide-citing-datasets Download the 12 page guide which will help researchers cite datasets. Topics covered include elements of data citation, challenges involved in citing and linking to datasets associated with research. Produced by the Digital Curation Centre.
Occupy Archive
Another site archiving protest materials. This one http://occupyarchive.org/ , a special project of the Roy Rosenzweig Center for History and New Media at George Mason University, is saving digital evidence and stories from the Occupy protests worldwide that began in September 2011 in Lower Manhattan. This includes archives of websites, personal accounts, photographs and texts. It is possible […]
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