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Oral History of the Runnymede Trust 1968-1988
https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2012/03/23/oral-history-of-the-runnymede-trust-1968-1988/
Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on March 23, 2012 Runnymede is the UK’s leading independent race equality think tank.
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Ministry of Justice website
https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2012/03/01/ministry-of-justice-website/
Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on March 1, 2012 The Ministry of Justice’s website was relaunched this week. The new design provides easier access to content, with information organised by subject.
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Citizen Cyberspace
https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2011/07/01/citizen-cyberspace/
Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on July 1, 2011 The rise of citizen cyberscience and its impact on professional research http://indico.cern.ch/contributionDisplay.
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Digital Education Research Archive (DERA)
https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2011/03/22/digital-education-research-archive-dera/
Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on March 22, 2011 http://dera.ioe.ac.uk DERA is a digital archive of documents published electronically by government and related bodies in the area of education.
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UN Document Digitisation Project
https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2012/03/02/un-document-digitisation-project/
Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on March 2, 2012 The UN has created a web page http://www.un.org/depts/dhl/deplib/digitization_program.htm where you can find out about the progress of its document digitisation programme.
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Global voices advocacy
https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2013/02/08/global-voices-advocacy/
Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on February 8, 2013 A report on the internet firewall in China. Surveys the 2013 battle between Chinese netizens and China’s Great Firewall: http://advocacy.globalvoicesonline.
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How do you access news?
https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2015/05/01/how-do-you-access-news/
Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on May 1, 2015 39 out of 50 of the top US news sites now get more traffic from mobile devices than desktop computers.
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Global State of Freedom of Information is ‘worrying’…
https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2016/05/03/global-state-of-freedom-of-information-is-worrying/
Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on May 3, 2016 …according to the annual Open Data Barometer from the World Wide Web Foundation. It says that only 50% of the 92 included countries have ‘reasonably strong’ laws.
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Coronavirus: Media coverage
https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2020/03/30/coronavirus-media-coverage/
Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on March 30, 2020 Media Cloud is monitoring global media coverage of the pandemic and has some interesting facts and figures on its website.
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Alternatives to Wikileaks
https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2015/03/02/alternatives-to-wikileaks/
Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on March 2, 2015 Wikileaks is widely known as a portal where whistleblowers can securely upload classified information. Recently a number of newspapers have created their own systems.