General Interest
http://www.nhm.ac.uk/nature-online/earth/antarctica/index.html
Conserving temporary structures of historical importance is hard, and performing such work in the harsh climate of the Antarctic is even harder. Of course, dedicated researchers and conservators from the Natural History Museum in Britain would never shy away from such a challenge, and this splendid sites offers insight into their work on this project. Essentially, the team is working on conserving the huts left by Ernest Shackleton during his 1908 expedition to the Antarctic, and visitors can read their team weblog, learn about the history of the huts, and also read up on the dilemmas faced by the team as they work on this heritage project. The site is rounded out by a fine selection of images of Antarctica (including shots of icy landscapes and penguins) and detailed maps of the continent and Ross Island. [KMG]
http://www.law.berkeley.edu/institutes/bclt/
Established at Berkeley's Boalt Hall in 1995, the mission of the Berkeley Center for Law & Technology is "to foster beneficial and ethical advancement of technology by promoting the understanding and guiding the development of intellectual property and related fields of law and policy as they intersect with business, science and technology." First-time visitors to their homepage can make their way through some of their new publications and papers, which can include everything from work on stem cell research ethics to international copyright law. By clicking on the "Research" section, visitors can learn more about faculty research and the scholarship of those persons working closely in affiliation with the Center through research appointments. [KMG]
http://www.virginia.edu/publichistory/bl/index.php
Over the past several years, the Institute for Public History at the University of Virginia has been compiling a set of interviews with important black leaders across the United States. The project is co-directed by Phyllis Leffler and noted civil rights leader Julian Bond. By recording these experiences and comments, they hope that they can "implicitly connect the ways in which historical circumstances create the conditions for the future." Currently, there are over 30 interviews available, including talks with politician Eleanor Holmes Norton, publisher Earl Graves, and comedian and social critic Dick Gregory. Visitors can read transcripts of the interviews, read a short biographical statement, and also listen to each interview. [KMG]
Some people out there might be thinking: "What will MIT think up next?" Well, they've probably thought up a number of things in the time it takes just to read this sentence, but one of their latest endeavors is MIT TechTv. It's a partnership between the MIT School of Engineering and MIT Libraries Academic Media Production services, and it basically allows various members of the MIT community (and others) to locate high-quality science and engineering related videos on the web. It's pretty easy to get started, as visitors can just click on the "View" button to watch some of the latest content. Recent highlights have included Brian Chan's origami demonstrations, debates on the gas tax, and physics demonstrations. Visitors should check back frequently, as new content is added quite regularly. [KMG]
https://kb.osu.edu/dspace/handle/1811/131
The Knowledge Bank at The Ohio State University has a number of ongoing digitization and research projects, and this latest collection will be of interest to a broad range of scholars or anyone else with an interest in subjects such as American history, literary criticism, or communication arts. Currently, the site contains 295 titles published by The Ohio State University Press that are not available in a traditional paper edition. Visitors can search the collection by keyword, or they can also browse around by title, author, subject, or date of publication. The collection is nothing if not eclectic, as the offerings here include the 1999 work "Rewriting Chaucer: culture, authority, and the idea of the authentic text, 1400-1602" and 1952's "History of the Ohio State University: The story of its first seventy-five years, 1873-1948". [KMG]
http://journals.sfu.ca/coaction/index.php/egp
The guiding principle behind the new open access scholarly journal "Ethics & Global Politics" is "to foster theoretical contributions to the study of global politics by providing a forum for presenting novel ways of understanding and conceptualizing the global political challenges the world faces today." The journal is published by Co-Action Publishing with substantial support from The Swedish Research Council and the Department of Political Science at Stockholm University. On their homepage, visitors can learn about their editorial board, register for updates, read their latest announcements, and also find out about their submissions guidelines. Recently, the journal has published compelling and thoughtful pieces like "Neither global nor national: novel assemblages of territory, authority and rights" by Saskia Sassen and "Amnesty on trial: impunity, accountability, and the norms of international law" by Max Pensky. [KMG]
http://www.msuglobal.com/opencourseware/
Michigan State University is one of the partner institutions working on the Open CourseWare Initiative and this website is their way of giving the general web-browsing public access to some of their educational expertise. Those persons who might be unfamiliar with the open educational resources movement may wish to read the paper on the homepage titled "Giving Knowledge for Free: The Emergence of Open Educational Resources" or the equally timely work "Access to Education with Online Learning and Open Educational Resources: Can They Close the Gap?" Currently, the subject areas available here include international business, planning and zoning, and horse management. Visitors can scan through the course documents at their leisure, and they are also welcome to download various materials here. [KMG]
http://www.borderfilmproject.com/en/index.php
In 2005, three young Americans, Rudy Adler, Victoria Criado, and Brett Huneycutt, whose backgrounds include activism, economics, and advertising, wondered what would happen if they gave disposable cameras to two groups of people on different sides of the border between the United States and Mexico: undocumented migrants crossing into the United States, and American Minutemen trying to stop them. Both groups were asked to document their activities, given postage- paid mailers for the return of their unprocessed film, and were offered different incentives. Minutemen received $25 Shell gas cards, while migrants were given $25 Wal-Mart gift cards. The results can currently be viewed on this website and were published in book form in 2007. They have also been exhibited in galleries throughout the U.S. ranging from Venice, California to Buffalo, New York. The project has collected around 2,000 photos, most of which can be viewed here by clicking on the "Photos" section at the top of the page. There is also a 20-minute video, designed to play as a loop at an exhibition, divided into short segments for online viewing. [DS]
