Pan-African Magazines is the newest module on the Africa Commons platform. It complements and expands the value of three other modules—Black South African Magazines; West African Magazines; and East African Newspapers, Magazines, and Films: The Hilary Ng’weno Collection. Through an exclusive agreement with Drum Archive in Johannesburg, formerly Baily's African History Archive (BAHA), Coherent Digital’s Pan-African Magazines delivers over 70,000 pages of content.
A richly-indexed, full-text database providing centralized access to centuries of Latin American and Latinx primary-source materials, previously scattered across the internet.
Documentary films about the impact of American mass media. Films focus on topics such as gender, race and representation, health, class, consumerism, politics, and the environment, with the purpose of encouraging critical thought about the media, its effects on viewers, and on the world more broadly.
Sage Research Methods: Data and Research Literacy supports students and researchers in developing a critical understanding of the research process and the role of data. Through a blend of video interviews, how-to guides, real-life case studies, and teaching datasets, the collection empowers users to assess research approaches, manage data responsibly, and interpret findings with confidence. It promotes research integrity and transparency across qualitative, quantitative, and mixed methods, helping users produce credible, high-quality research.
This unique collection of videos covers a range of innovative and cutting edge techniques and projects across data science methods, issues and challenges surrounding big data research, and applications of computational social science research. With a focus on what new methods and data sources can tell us about human behaviour, the collection contains interviews with leading academics at the forefront of developing these methods, and short documentaries exploring industry applications of data science. From basic programming techniques for those starting out, through to advanced techniques in deep learning, you will find helpful tutorials, tailored to those with different disciplinary backgrounds and experience.
Videos featuring hundreds of different methods through tutorials, case studies, and expert interviews. See research in action in real projects and learn to combine qualitative techniques with quantitative for a mixed methods approach.
This interdisciplinary resource offers the theoretical insights and practical skills needed to create impactful research projects. Ideal for the social, behavioural, and health sciences, the collection covers essential topics such as crafting research questions, selecting methodologies, securing ethical approval, data management, field preparation, and conducting literature reviews.
While research can reveal insights about society’s problems, faulty data can lead to dangerous misinformation. The videos in this collection cover ethical considerations (including handling of sensitive data), working with review boards, and maintaining integrity to produce rigorous, reproducible research. Learn from the experts in video tutorials, interviews, and case studies.
Featuring a variety of high-quality resources serving as a gateway to the multimedia, video, cases, and datasets collections available across the platform. Users can start their journey with bitesize learning using dictionary definitions, or dive straight in to full reference texts, and then having gained confidence, they can explore what additional collections have to offer.
Explore the skills necessary to become a social worker through videos that show insights of different client groups and elevate understanding of how theory and policy relate to practice. The collection includes global content and features tutorials, video case studies, interviews with practitioners, documentaries, and videos that show social work in action.
