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Digital Archive of Japan’s 2011 Disasters
https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2012/03/23/digital-archive-of-japans-2011-disasters/
Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on March 23, 2012 The Digital Archive of Japan’s 2011 Disasters is a project by Harvard University to collect, preserve and make available the digital records of the Japan’s disasters to assist scholarly...
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The Universal Human Rights Index
https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2012/04/27/the-universal-human-rights-index/
Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on April 27, 2012 http://uhri.ohchr.org/ Quickly trace recommendations relating to individual countries from the leading intergovernmental organisations.
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World Development Indicators 2012
https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2012/05/04/world-development-indicators-2012/
Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on May 4, 2012 Now available from the World Bank: http://data.worldbank.
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Bitcoin ‘offers opportunities to charities’
https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2015/05/08/bitcoin-offers-opportunities-to-charities/
Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on May 8, 2015 According to the latest report from the Charities Aid Foundation online currencies such as Bitcoin could enable charities to cut currency transfer costs and encourage transparency.
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LGBT Hate crime under-reported
https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2015/06/29/lgbt-hate-crime-under-reported/
Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on June 29, 2015 88% of UK LGBT people have experience emotional or physical hate crime and only 14% have felt able to report the most recent crimes to the police.
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Suffragettes on File
https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2018/03/16/suffragettes-on-file/
Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on March 16, 2018 A new educational resource from the National Archives designed for teachers of Key stage 1,3,5 – Suffragettes on File .
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Wikipedia bans the Daily Mail as an ‘unreliable source’
https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2017/02/17/wikipedia-bans-the-daily-mail-as-an-unreliable-source/
Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on February 17, 2017 See the discussion from the Wikipedia reliable sources noticeboard There is also some interesting discussion by the Nieman Lab Also see this recent article on search strategies in...
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Opengendertracking project
https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2013/03/22/opengendertracking-project/
Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on March 22, 2013 A project which aims to build software to track gender content in online news stories. The website provides an explanation of the project. This launch page http://opengendertracking.
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May Book Group: Vile Bodies
https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/waughandwords/2014/04/07/may-book-group-vile-bodies/
Details of the Waugh Book Group's meeting to disuss Vile Bodies.
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Historical Newspaper Archives: Finance and Economics
https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2015/10/14/historical-newspaper-archives-finance-and-economics/
Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on October 14, 2015 The University has recently acquired some historical newspaper archives amongst which are the Economist 1843-2011 and the Financial Times 1888-2010.