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🔗 The Getty Makes Nearly 88,000 Art Images Free to Use However You Like

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Since the J. Paul Getty Museum launched its Open Content program back in 2013, we’ve been featuring their efforts to make their vast collection of cultural artifacts freely accessible online. They’ve released not just digitized works of art, but also a great many art history texts and art books in general. Just this week, they announced an expansion of access to their digital archive, in that they’ve made nearly 88,000 images free to download on their Open Content database under Creative Commons Zero (CC0). That means “you can copy, modify, distribute and perform the work, even for commercial purposes, all without asking permission.”

🔗 Whole Earth Index

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Here lies a nearly-complete archive of Whole Earth publications, a series of journals and magazines descended from the Whole Earth Catalog, published by Stewart Brand and the POINT Foundation between 1970 and 2002. They are made available here for scholarship, education, and research purposes.

🔗 information for practice

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To help social service professionals throughout the world conveniently maintain an awareness of news regarding the profession and emerging scholarship.

!! Goals

  • identify and deliver a selection of the highest quality available in each category
  • regularly deliver an interesting mix of new information
  • create a more global sense of the profession for users from all locales
  • serve as an introductory socialization force for students

🔗 Braggoscope - Explore the In Our Time archive

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In Our Time with Melvyn Bragg has been broadcast on BBC Radio 4 since 1998. Here’s the official site.

There are almost a thousand episodes (974 listed here), on all kinds of topics, and they are all available to listen to on the BBC website.

This unofficial site is about finding what to listen to next.

🔗 CrumpLab Books

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  • Instances of Cognition
  • Reproducible statistics for psychologists with R: Lab Tutorials
  • Using R for Reproducible Research: Student contributed tutorials
  • Answering Questions with Data: Introductory Statistics for Psychology Students
  • Answering Questions with Data: The Lab Manual
  • Answering Questions with Data: The Course Website
  • Research Methods for Psychology
  • Cognitive Technologies: From Theory and Data to Application
  • Open tools for writing open interactive textbooks (and more)
  • Programming for Psychologists: Data Creation and Analysis

🔗 GRADE Handbook

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The GRADE approach is a system for rating the quality of a body of evidence in systematic reviews and other evidence syntheses, such as health technology assessments, and guidelines and grading recommendations in health care. GRADE offers a transparent and structured process for developing and presenting evidence summaries and for carrying out the steps involved in developing recommendations. It can be used to develop clinical practice guidelines (CPG) and other health care recommendations (e.g. in public health, health policy and systems and coverage decisions). <<<

🔗 Linus Pauling Institute - Micronutrient Information Center

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The Linus Pauling Institute's Micronutrient Information Center is a source for scientifically accurate information regarding the roles of vitamins, minerals, phytochemicals (plant chemicals that may affect health), and other dietary factors, including some food and beverages, in preventing disease and promoting health. All of the nutrients and dietary factors included in the Micronutrient Information Center may be obtained from the diet, and many are also available as dietary supplements.

🔗 Guidebook on Vicarious Trauma: Recommended Solutions for Anti-Violence Workers - OS_Vicarious_Trauma_Guidebook-508.pdf

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This guidebook is written for those indi­viduals who have chosen to dedicate a time in their life to work with abused women, children and their abusers. It attempts to recognize the unique experi­ence of anti-violence workers in Canada and to promote individual, professional and organizational solutions to support them.Vicarious trauma is one outcome of this work. The effects of vicarious trauma are cumulative and build upon memories obtained through listening to the stories of one inhumane act of cruelty after another. This creates a permanent, subtle or marked change in the personal, political, spiritual and professional outlook of the counsellor or advocate. Vicarious trauma has a life-changing effect on individuals, ultimately affecting their view of the world and their relationships and connections to families, friends …

🔗 Vicarious Trauma Toolkit | Vicarious Trauma Toolkit Introduction

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The Vicarious Trauma Toolkit (VTT) was developed on the premise that exposure to the traumatic experiences of other people—known as vicarious trauma—is an inevitable occupational challenge for the fields of victim services, emergency medical services, fire services, law enforcement, and other allied professionals; however, organizations can mitigate the potentially negative effects of trauma exposure by becoming vicarious trauma-informed.

🔗 National Centre for Text Mining — NaCTeM — RobotAnalyst

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RobotAnalyst was developed as part of the Supporting Evidence-based Public Health Interventions using Text Mining project to support the literature screening phase of systematic reviews. RobotAnalyst is designed for searching and screening reference collections obtained from literature database queries. It combines search engine functionality with machine learning and text mining technology, including topic modelling and relevancy feedback-based text classification models, to minimise the human workload involved in identifying relevant references