22nd UNESCO Week of Sound

Sound is all around us. It carries meaning through speech, and emotion through tone and music. The invention of radio, more than a century ago, changed the world, and the Internet gave this medium a new form through podcasts. Social science researchers, historians and anthropologists also use sound and recordings as research data or as the subject of their research, whether for oral histories or qualitative analysis.

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World AIDS day, December 1

A red ribbon with hands over a world map

World AIDS day is organised every year to raise awareness of the challenges faced by people living with this disease, remember those who lost their lives and be aware that in 2023, there were 39.9 million people living with HIV (https://aidsinfo.unaids.org/). Here is a selection of titles that can bring you to better understand the origins and issues faced by people living with AIDS. 

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Home improvement, the Zotero way

A white house on a hillside

You could think of Zotero as a house which you may want to customise to suit your needs. Instead of adding a porch or a swimming pool, this takes the form of plugins that allow you to add features to your reference manager. With the arrival of Zotero 7, which has brought some changes to the plugin landscape, this blog post has been updated.

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