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Election boost for SOSIG blog news service.(Social Science Information Gateway Subject News)
Bristol University's social sciences blog, SOSIG Subject News, was a winner in last month's general election.
The General Election channel of SOSIG Subject News was cited by the British Council, the British Election Study and several universities as a key research resource for the election.
Paul Ayres, SOSIG research officer at the Institute for Learning and Research Technology, said the blog has a distributed team of contributors that keep it up to date.
He said: "The blog aims to bring the latest internet resources to the Social Science academic community by linking to the research sites behind the latest news."
It is one of the largest units of its kind in UK higher education, with around 60 staff and an annual turnover of nearly [pounds sterling]3m. It brings together expertise in digital libraries, internet developments, e-learning, semantic web and digital imaging.
The SOSIG blog was set up last November after a request from the JISC for an RSS newsfeed about service developments. "We used a blog as a way of providing this automatically, and then went on to provide a version which was subject-based and targeted at our users or ...
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