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November 19, 2020 / Last updated : November 19, 2020 ResearchBuzz COVID-19

Coronavirus: The realities of schooling in rural Brazil (BBC)

BBC: Coronavirus: The realities of schooling in rural Brazil. “In Latin America and the Caribbean, 97% of children are still not having face-to-face classes, according to estimates by the United Nation’s children’s agency, Unicef. That is around 137 million students. On average, children in Latin America have lost nearly four times more days of schooling […]

February 22, 2020 / Last updated : February 22, 2020 ResearchBuzz Around the Search & Social Media World

Florida International University News: FIU, UF scholars awarded grant to increase accessibility to Caribbean primary research data

Florida International University News: FIU, UF scholars awarded grant to increase accessibility to Caribbean primary research data. “FIU Libraries, in partnership with the Digital Library of the Caribbean and the University of Florida George A. Smathers Libraries, has received $50,000 to support dLOC (Digital Library of the Caribbean) as Data: A Thematic Approach to Caribbean […]

December 8, 2019 / Last updated : December 8, 2019 ResearchBuzz New Resources

St. Olaf College: St. Olaf team creates Caribbean Studies Network

St. Olaf College: St. Olaf team creates Caribbean Studies Network. “Thanks to the research and funding opportunities provided by the Collaborative Undergraduate Research and Inquiry (CURI) program, the TRIO McNair Scholars Program, and the Institute for Freedom and Community, St. Olaf College now serves as the official headquarters of a collaborative network of academics and […]

January 10, 2019 / Last updated : January 10, 2019 ResearchBuzz Around the Search & Social Media World

University of Florida: The University of Florida, University of Puerto Rico Libraries and the Digital Library of the Caribbean Receive Grant Award to Digitize Threatened Newspaper Microfilm of the Caribbean

University of Florida: The University of Florida, University of Puerto Rico Libraries and the Digital Library of the Caribbean Receive Grant Award to Digitize Threatened Newspaper Microfilm of the Caribbean. “This three year project totaling $434,124, Film on a Boat: Digitizing Historical Newspapers of the Caribbean, was one of 16 from a pool of 100 […]

April 25, 2018 / Last updated : April 25, 2018 ResearchBuzz Tweaks & Updates

University of North Carolina: Libraries Partner on Open-Access Publication Series

University of North Carolina: Libraries Partner on Open-Access Publication Series. “The University of North Carolina Press, the Institute for the Study of the Americas and the University Libraries published the first title in their collaborative open-access series, Studies in Latin America. Tropical Tongues: Language Ideologies, Endangerment, and Minority Languages in Belize by Jennifer Carolina Gómez […]

March 28, 2018 / Last updated : March 28, 2018 ResearchBuzz Around the Search & Social Media World

The Daily Herald: St. Eustatius to become part of International Digital Archive

The Daily Herald: St. Eustatius to become part of International Digital Archive. “Once the main destination for the African slave trade in the eighteenth century, St. Eustatius has a fascinating history that remains largely undiscovered on the world stage. But this may change since Angela Sutton from Vanderbilt University in Nashville, Tennessee, visited the Historical […]

December 9, 2017 / Last updated : December 9, 2017 ResearchBuzz New Resources

Curacao Chronicle: Tropical Dutch Biodiversity Now In One Database

Curacao Chronicle: Tropical Dutch Biodiversity Now In One Database. “Naturalis Biodiversity Center (NBC) is proud to announce the launch of the Dutch Caribbean Species Register… For the first time ever, NBC presents a complete overview of the known biodiversity (animals, plants, fungi) from the Dutch Caribbean: over 7.500 species. This online database is the result […]

July 20, 2017 / Last updated : July 20, 2017 ResearchBuzz New Resources

Phys.org: Climate scientists create Caribbean drought atlas

Phys.org: Climate scientists create Caribbean drought atlas. “Cornell atmospheric scientists have developed the first-of-its-kind, high-resolution Caribbean drought atlas, with data going back to 1950. Concurrently, the researchers confirmed the region’s 2013-16 drought was the most severe in 66 years due to consistently higher temperatures – a hint that climate change is to blame. Because of […]

May 9, 2017 / Last updated : May 9, 2017 ResearchBuzz New Resources

St. Lucia News Online: Caribbean’s first online human rights database launched

St. Lucia News Online: Caribbean’s first online human rights database launched. “The region’s first online database that will enable a standard system for capturing, collating and reporting human rights violations, has been launched. Developed by the Caribbean Vulnerable Communities Coalition (CVC), the Shared Incident Database (SID) is an advanced, user-friendly, web-based technology that will strengthen […]

December 6, 2016 / Last updated : December 6, 2016 ResearchBuzz New Resources

Dutch Caribbean Digital Heritage Project Goes Online

A large collection of Dutch Caribbean history has gone online. “The Dutch Caribbean digital heritage project, made possible through a subsidy of the Dutch Ministry of Education, Culture and Science OCW, was an extensive endeavour that involved the sorting and selecting of a whole lot of material of which some pieces were very fragile because […]

July 23, 2016 / Last updated : July 23, 2016 ResearchBuzz New Resources

Newspaper From the Waning Days of the Danish West Indies Digitized, Put Online

Now available: a digitized newspaper from the US Virgin Islands when it was the Danish West Indies. “Over 3,000 pages of David Hamilton Jackson’s The Herald, which is the first citizen-owned and -operated newspaper in the Danish West Indies, have been digitized and are freely available online to researchers everywhere … the digitization project includes […]

June 26, 2016 / Last updated : June 25, 2016 ResearchBuzz New Resources

Crowdsourcing Information on the Black Volunteers of the Royal Air Force in WWII

More crowdsourcing for people of color: the International Bomber Command Centre (IBCC), which is doing some very interesting projects, wants to highlight the Caribbean and West African volunteers who served in the Royal Air Force (RAF) during World War II. “…the board of trustees of the new International Bomber Command Centre (IBCC) being built in […]

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