http://tags.library.upenn.edu/tag/social_sciences PennTags Feed http://tags.library.upenn.edu/makerecord/url/38465 http://tags.library.upenn.edu/makerecord/url/38465 <p>New multi-sponsored opportunity encourages humanities and social science research using large-scale data analysis, challenging scholars to develop international partnerships and explore vast digital resources, including electronic repositories of books, newspapers, and photographs to identify new opportunities for scholarship.</p> http://tags.library.upenn.edu/makerecord/url/23801 http://tags.library.upenn.edu/makerecord/url/23801 <p><span class="textBlack">The Endangered Archives Programme is offering a number of grants every year to individual researchers world-wide to locate vulnerable archival collections, to arrange their transfer wherever possible to a suitable local archival home, and to deliver copies into the international research domain via the British Library.</span></p> <p>The specific focus of this Programme is upon archives relating to the pre-industrial stages of a society's development, whether in Asia, the Middle East, Africa, Latin America, or even Europe.</p> <p>These grants will be the primary means by which Arcadia will contribute to the urgent task of identifying, preserving and making accessible such archival collections before they are lost to international scholarship forever.</p> <p>&nbsp;</p> http://tags.library.upenn.edu/makerecord/url/32745 http://tags.library.upenn.edu/makerecord/url/32745 http://tags.library.upenn.edu/makerecord/ered/29053 http://tags.library.upenn.edu/makerecord/ered/29053 <div class="mlacite">Kwetu.net<br />Searchable fulltext (PDF-format) documents from African research organizations, NGOs, educational institutions, and government agencies. Topics covered include agriculture, AIDS support services, arid lands research, children and family and social services, environmental conservation and forest and water resources, finance and economic development including the informal sector, journalism, human rights and social justice, peace and conflict resolution, politics and elections, population issues and family planning, urban development, and women's issues.<br /></div> http://tags.library.upenn.edu/makerecord/ered/29022 http://tags.library.upenn.edu/makerecord/ered/29022 <div class="mlacite">Periodicals Index Online<br />Humanities and social sciences. The scope is international, including journals in English, French, German, Italian, Spanish and other Western languages. <br /></div> http://tags.library.upenn.edu/makerecord/ered/29021 http://tags.library.upenn.edu/makerecord/ered/29021 <div class="mlacite">UNESBIB</div> <div class="mlacite">Indexing with abstracts for the international publication and document literature on education, culture, communication and information, the natural sciences, and the social sciences and humanities. Topics covered are those treated by UNESCO (United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization): literacy, access to education, publishing, freedom of expression, access to media, information ethics, cultural policy, copyright, cultural heritage, tourism development, environmental studies, sustainable development, multiculturalism and tolerance, democracy, and urban issues.<br /></div> http://tags.library.upenn.edu/makerecord/ered/29018 http://tags.library.upenn.edu/makerecord/ered/29018 <div class="mlacite">Islam in Sub-Saharan Africa<br />A "web dossier on Islam in Sub-Saharan Africa to coincide with the conference on