<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?><rss version="0.92"> <channel><title>DrexelSocialSciencesLib</title><link>http://www.library.drexel.edu/blogs/drexelsocialscienceslib</link> <description>Just another Drexel University Libraries Blogs Sites site</description> <lastBuildDate>Thu, 17 Feb 2011 15:16:36 +0000</lastBuildDate> <docs>http://backend.userland.com/rss092</docs> <language>en</language><item><title>Got Data?</title> <description><![CDATA[The Google Public Data Explorer is now ready to help you visualize your data. The same tool that Google uses to let you explore datasets from select governments and NGOs has now been opened up to help you visualize your own data. The link above takes you the Google Code Labs homepage for the DSPL [...]]]></description><link>http://www.library.drexel.edu/blogs/drexelsocialscienceslib/2011/02/17/got-data/</link> </item> <item><title>Sage Research Methods Online offers public beta</title> <description><![CDATA[Sage Research Methods Online has just started a free public beta test.  And the Library has started an institutional trial too.  The resource, which contains over 100,000 pages of books, journals, encyclopedias and handbooks, is designed to help you choose and implement the best social science research method for your project. You can use the [...]]]></description><link>http://www.library.drexel.edu/blogs/drexelsocialscienceslib/2010/10/13/sage-research-methods-online-offers-public-beta/</link> </item> <item><title>Keep Safe, Stay In (and play this game)</title> <description><![CDATA[The Curfew Readers of this blog have probably noticed that I am fond of visual ways of exploring complex issues.  Often that involves maps but sometimes, as with ICED, that means web-based games.  The Curfew is a game (currently in beta) from Channel4 and LittleLoud in the UK with the support of groups such as [...]]]></description><link>http://www.library.drexel.edu/blogs/drexelsocialscienceslib/2010/08/11/keep-safe-stay-in-and-play-this-game/</link> </item> <item><title>The LLoC&#039;s new guide to resources on Elena Kagen</title> <description><![CDATA[Elena Kagen &#8211; Law Library of Congress Whether you are a policy wonk (I am), a Supreme Court groupie (got me again), or just interested in the way the nation&#8217;s highest court helps shape our society (yep), this new page from the LLoC will be very useful as we gear up for Elena Kagen&#8217;s Senate [...]]]></description><link>http://www.library.drexel.edu/blogs/drexelsocialscienceslib/2010/05/13/the-llocs-new-guide-to-resources-on-elena-kagen/</link> </item> <item><title>Mapping the Deepwater Horizons spill</title> <description><![CDATA[Oil Spill Cris Map [from the Louisiana Bucket Brigade] I&#8217;m always impressed at how quickly important events are mapped these days.  As you have probably noticed, I am very interested in the ways GIS tools are used to visualize data and help us understand our world using maps.  That will be the subject of an [...]]]></description><link>http://www.library.drexel.edu/blogs/drexelsocialscienceslib/2010/05/05/mapping-the-deepwater-horizons-spill/</link> </item> <item><title>Help us try out CSA-Linguistics &amp; Language Behavior Abstracts (LLBA)</title> <description><![CDATA[From now until May 26th we have a  trial of the Linguistics &#38; Language Behavior Abstracts (LLBA) database.  If you study a topic related to language, linguistics, or speech this may be an important resource for you.  I could envision this being used by students and researchers in fields like Psychology, Sociology, Anthropology, Communications, Modern [...]]]></description><link>http://www.library.drexel.edu/blogs/drexelsocialscienceslib/2010/04/29/help-us-try-out-csa-linguistics-language-behavior-abstracts-llba/</link> </item> <item><title>Free access to online primary source collection to celebrate Women&#039;s History Month</title> <description><![CDATA[Women and Social Movements in the United States 1600-2000, Scholar’s Edition SUNY Binghamton&#8217;s Center for the Historical Study of Women and Gender and publisher Alexander Street Press are offering one month&#8217;s free access to their extensive digital archive collection in honor of Women&#8217;s History Month.  This free preview which lets you use the colection&#8217;s, &#8220;91 [...]]]></description><link>http://www.library.drexel.edu/blogs/drexelsocialscienceslib/2010/03/08/free-access-to-online-primary-source-collection-to-celebrate-womens-history-month/</link> </item> <item><title>How do you like your data?</title> <description><![CDATA[Data Store: World Government Data If you like your data international, free, and easy to find then the UK newpaper,  The Guardian, has a site for you! World Government Data draws from publicly available government databases like data.gov for the US and the cleverly named data.gov.uk.  Now you can browse or cross-search government datasets from [...]]]></description><link>http://www.library.drexel.edu/blogs/drexelsocialscienceslib/2010/01/22/how-do-you-like-your-data/</link> </item> <item><title>Keeping Up: Earthquake in Haiti</title> <description><![CDATA[Starting soon I will begin a series of blog posts on easy ways to &#8220;keep up&#8221; with the academic disciplines that I support here at Drexel.  That&#8217;s the plan anyway.  Sometimes, though, something comes up that is just more pressing. Here are some ways to keep up with the events around the earthquake in Haiti.  [...]]]></description><link>http://www.library.drexel.edu/blogs/drexelsocialscienceslib/2010/01/19/keeping-up-earthquake-in-haiti/</link> </item> <item><title>Oh APA, I&#039;m sooo disappointed&#8230;</title> <description><![CDATA[Does your program  require that you use APA Style for the research papers you write? Did you go out and buy the brand new 6th Edition of the Publication Manual of the American Psychological Association? Yes? Well, I have some bad news for you. It seems that the first printing of the 6th edition is [...]]]></description><link>http://www.library.drexel.edu/blogs/drexelsocialscienceslib/2009/10/23/oh-apa-im-sooo-disappointed/</link> </item> </channel> </rss>
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