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- Like Wikipedia but wary about its accuracy? Why not try Scholarpedia? This, like Wikipedia, is a free encyclopedia which anyone can edit, but unlike Wikipedia it's peer reviewed. Each Scholarpedia article is written by an 'expert' who has either been invited by Scholarpedia editors or elected by the public. Every article is anonymously peer reviewed and is allocated to a curator who is responsible for its content.
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Websites & Sources of Data
Sound & Video Resources
- Archival Sound Recordings
- Arts on Film Archive
- BBC Motion Gallery
- ScreenOnline
- In View (BFI)
- British History Through the Lens
- The London Broadcasting Company / Independent Radio News audio archive
- "consists of 7,000 reel-to-reel tapes in a collection that runs from 1973 to the mid-1990s.
It is the most important commercial radio archive in the UK and provides a unique audio history of the period"
News Portals
Online News
- ANANOVA
- formerly the Press Association
- BBC News
- Cable News Network [CNN]
- Channel 4 News
- Independent Media Center [Indymedia]
- a collective of independent media organizations and hundreds of journalists offering grassroots, non-corporate coverage
- ITN Online
- Moreover.com
- A collection of webfeeds and news headlines from over 1500 sources
- Newsday.com
- Online news from Newsday Media Group
- Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty [RFE/RL]
- Reuters
- The financial information and news group
- Sinopolis.com
- Information, deriving mainly from media reports, about mainland China, including business, education, technology, environment, life, reform. Includes archive search facility.
- Sky News
- USA Today Website
Newspapers
- FT.com : Financial Times
- Guardian Unlimited - website
- Website for the Guardian and Observer newspapers.
- Independent
- News [Portsmouth's evening newspaper]
- Observer
- The Observer Sunday newspaper online
- Sunday Times
- Telegraph
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Scholarpedia
Like Wikipedia but wary about its accuracy? Trying to deter your students from using it? Why not try Scholarpedia? This, like Wikipedia, is a free encyclopedia which anyone can edit, but unlike Wikipedia it's peer reviewed. Each Scholarpedia article is written by an 'expert' who has either been invited by Scholarpedia editors or elected by the public. Every article is anonymously peer reviewed and is allocated to a curator who is responsible for its content.
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