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Historic US election results
https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2016/11/11/historic-us-election-results/
Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on November 11, 2016 USA Presidential elections. Here are some historical data sources. Official vote counts for federal elections since 1920 from the official sources compiled by the Office of the Clerk.
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Punk
https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2023/06/07/punk/
Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on June 7, 2023 A major exhibition about punk, Rage and Revolution is now on at New Walk Museum.
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Can social media predict election results?
https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2015/05/26/can-social-media-predict-election-results/
Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on May 26, 2015 A recent SSRN paper from Cardiff University developed a model using Twitter and considers how it could be applied to the UK 2015 general election.
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News clips archives
https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2013/08/21/news-clips-archives/
Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on August 21, 2013 University of Virginia Library WSLS-TV. Archive online: http://news.virginia.
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Governments and Facebook
https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2013/09/04/governments-and-facebook/
Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on September 4, 2013 Government requests for data from Facebook Which governments request information the most from Facebook? First report from Facebook covers 6 months from January-June 2013.
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Economic and Social Commission for Asia and the Pacific
https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2014/01/24/economic-and-social-commission-for-asia-and-the-pacific/
Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on January 24, 2014 ESCAP digital publications Free access to its flagship publication Economic and Social Survey of Asia and the Pacific starting with the first edition published in 1948 and continuing...
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European Encyclopaedia on National Education Systems
https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2013/08/21/european-encyclopaedia-on-national-education-systems/
Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on August 21, 2013 EURYPEDIA Useful new tool which has encyclopaedia style entries on the education systems of over 30 nations in Europe.
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The International Aid Transparency Initiative (IATI) Data Library
https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2012/09/07/the-international-aid-transparency-initiative-iati-data-library/
Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on September 7, 2012 http://www.iatiregistry.org/ The IATI Seeks to make data about Aid spending easier to use and understand. A list of the major organisations involved is on the website.
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European Forum of Official Gazettes
https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2012/02/17/european-forum-of-official-gazettes/
Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on February 17, 2012 http://circa.europa.eu/irc/opoce/ojf/info/data/prod/html/index.
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Understanding Society Findings 2012
https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2012/04/04/understanding-society-findings-2012/
Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on April 4, 2012 http://research.understandingsociety.org.uk/findings/findings-2012 Understanding Society contains headline findings from the UK Household Longitudinal Survey.