Tracks "mentions" on the web in various sources (Twitter, Facebook, Reddit, etc.). Browse, search, and query mentions of publications and other output by researchers at U-M and elsewhere.
Altmetric Explorer for Institutions is a dashboard that allows users to browse, search, and query Altmetric data about "mentions" on the web of publications and other research outputs associated with researchers and departments at the University of Michigan--and elsewhere. The tool can be used to find and connect with readers of your work; to understand and communicate about online engagement with the work of any given researcher or department, or to see which research is most often mentioned in the news, cited in policy, etc. The University of Michigan is conducting a one-year pilot that will allow all affiliated users at the Ann Arbor, Dearborn, and Flint campuses to access the Altmetric Explorer.
Altmetric has a large and ever-growing set of sources where they look for mentions, since October 2011. (Start date of tracking varies by source.) It includes:
• More than 2,000 different news and media outlets (e.g., The New York Times, Wall Street Journal, Vox, Salon, Huffington Post, etc.)
• Publicly visible posts on social media (e.g., Facebook, Twitter, Google+, Reddit, etc.)
• Academic social platforms (Mendeley, F1000)
• Selected scholarly/academic blogs (e.g., Scholarly Kitchen)
• Collections of book reviews (e.g., Bryn Mawr Classical Review)
• Wikipedia
• Policy documents (e.g., Gov.UK, IMF, WHO, etc.)
• Syllabi in the Open Syllabus Project
Stories of American military personnel and civilians during the Second World War
Experiences of American military personnel and civilians during the Second World War through their oral histories, correspondence, diaries, photographs, artifacts, and military records. Presents personal experiences of those involved in the conflict, both on the United States home front and on deployment overseas in Europe, the Mediterranean, the Pacific, and China, Burma, and India.
CDP is an international organization, with regional offices and local partners spanning 50 countries. The CDP, formerly the Carbon Disclosure Project, runs the global disclosure system that enables companies, cities, states and regions to measure and manage their environmental impacts.
Access to the data is available to currently affiliated University of Michigan faculty, staff, and students who must accept the terms and conditions.
• Aerospace and High Performance Alloys Database
• Aerospace Structural Metals Database
• High Performance Alloys Database
• Microelectronics Packaging Materials Database
• Thermophysical Properties of Matter Database
• Damage Tolerant Design Handbook
• Structural Alloys Handbook
CINDAS LLC is a private company formed exclusively to disseminate materials properties data collected and analyzed by the Center for Information and Numerical Data Analysis and Synthesis (CINDAS) at Purdue University.
Manuscript cookbooks, advertising ephemera, government reports, films, and illustrated content sourced from across the globe.
Primary source material, including printed and manuscript cookbooks, advertising ephemera, government reports, films, and illustrated content showing the evolution of food and drink in society. The collection has been sourced from across the globe to reflect a wide range of food cultures and traditions. The collection illustrates the deep links between food and identity, politics, power, gender, race, and socio-economic status.
Other subject areas of interest include; agriculture and food production, and advertising histories of key food and drink brands.
Video database containing more than 4,400 Holocaust witness testimonies. Requires personal registration.
The Fortunoff Archive currently holds more than 4,400 testimonies, containing over 10,000 recorded hours of videotape. The Fortunoff Archive and its affiliates recorded the testimonies of willing individuals with first-hand experience of the Nazi persecutions, including those in hiding, survivors, bystanders, resistants, and liberators. Testimonies are recorded in whatever language the witness prefers, and range in length from a half hour to over 40 hours (recorded over several sessions).
NOTE: First-time users will need to create a login on Yale's Aviary platform before viewing testimonies.
1) Go to https://fortunoff.aviaryplatform.com/. Click on 'Log In,' and then 'Join Now.'
2) After submitting the form, you will receive a confirmation email. This is to verify you are indeed a human and not a bot. Check your spam if it doesn’t show up in your inbox.
3) Return to https://fortunoff.aviaryplatform.com/, login if necessary, and then enter a search term, such as a town name, a concentration camp, or a ghetto in the search bar at the top of the page. You can also click in the search box and press Enter to retrieve all records.
4) Click on a testimony in the search results and request access. You only need to request access to one testimony to obtain viewing rights for the entire collection. You should receive an approval email a few minutes after you make your request.
5) Once you get the approval email, refresh your browser to view testimonies.
Includes:
• Encyclopedia of Associations: National Organizations of the U.S.
• Encyclopedia of Associations: Regional, State and Local Organizations
• Encyclopedia of Governmental Advisory Organizations
• Gale Directory of Publications and Broadcast Media
• Publishers Directory
• Research Centers Directory
• Scholarships, Fellowships and Loans
• Ward's Business Directory of Private and Public Companies in Canada and Mexico
Video interviews of thousands of African Americans from a broad range of backgrounds.
The HistoryMakers Digital Archive is an easy-to-use online database of thousands of African Americans from a broad range of backgrounds and experiences. Unlike other primary source resources, The HistoryMakers Digital Archive provides high-quality video content, fully searchable transcripts, and unique content from individuals whose life stories would have been lost were it not for The HistoryMakers.
Articles covering 140 topics that focus on hobbies and crafts.
Hobbies & Crafts Reference Center is a full text database accessible that includes a collection of core, proprietary articles covering over 140 topics, as well as licensed periodicals and books that focus on hobbies and crafts. Features include the ability to search the Hobbies & Crafts interface by category, view all available topics, and browse popular resources related to the area of Hobbies & Crafts.
Includes topics in many categories:
• Arts & Crafts
• Collecting
• Home & Garden
• Indoor Recreation
• Kids' Crafts
• Model Building
• Needlecrafts & Textiles
• Outdoor Recreation
• Performing Arts
• Science & Technology
• Scrapbooking & Paper Crafts
Index to the literature of the particle and high-energy physics community.
Search over 500,000 high-energy physics related articles. Includes journal papers, preprints, e-prints, technical reports, conference papers and theses. Produced since the late 1960s, and comprehensively indexed by the SLAC and DESY libraries since 1974. Covers some articles published as far back as the 1920's.
Supersedes the SPIRES database started by the Stanford Linear Accelerator Center(SLAC) in the late 1960's.
Full text articles from scholarly law journals, covering current issues, studies and trends in the legal world.
Intended for attorneys, educators, business people, law librarians, and others involved with the law, Legal Source offers information centered on the discipline of law and legal topics such as criminal justice, international law, federal law, organized crime, medical law, labor & human resource law, ethics, the environment.
Performance and architecture-related documents offering insights into the performance practice in the reconstructed Globe Theatre.
This collection of documents offers insights into the performance practice in the particular space of the reconstructed Globe Theatre. It details the way in which the theatre was constructed as a place of radical experiment, documenting over 200 performances through prompt books, wardrobe notes, programs, publicity material, annual reports, show reports, photographs, and architectural plans.
This project makes available material from the Shakespeare’s Globe performance and architectural archives. The performance archive shows how productions at the reconstructed Globe and Sam Wanamaker Playhouse were conceived, rehearsed, dressed, marketed, and sound tracked, as well as how props were used, how the audiences behaved, and the theatre history and performance lessons that were observed and learned. The documents of the Globe’s performance archive primarily deal with productions from the opening of the theatre in 1997 to the end of Dominic Dromgoole’s tenure as Artistic Director in 2016. It also includes material on performances at the Sam Wanamaker Playhouse from 2014-2016.
The architectural archive contains material on how the reconstruction of the theatre was designed and planned and some of the conversations and debates that informed construction decisions. There is also material on the theatre’s annual reports, communications to its supporters and oral histories detailing some of the early history of the reconstructed theatre.
English - Yiddish dictionary from Indiana University Press.
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