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University of Leicester is now a supporter of DOAJ
https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/library/2022/12/02/university-of-leicester-is-now-a-supporter-of-doaj/
The University of Leicester is now an official supporter of the Directory Open Access Journals (DOAJ).
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Research Data Journal for the Humanities and Social Sciences
https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2015/11/04/research-data-journal-for-the-humanities-and-social-sciences/
Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on November 4, 2015 A new free open access journal from Brill and a number of research institutes based in the Netherlands seeks to highlight research based on data.
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Are emojis sexist?
https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2016/05/13/are-emojis-sexist/
Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on May 13, 2016 Certainly Google engineers think so as they recently submitted a proposal to Unicode: s ee Expanding Emoji Professions: Reducing Gender Inequality for 13 proposed designs to...
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Bloomberg: offshore yuan values
https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2013/05/17/bloomberg-offshore-yuan-values/
Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on May 17, 2013 The offshore yuan weakened on May 6 by the most since 2011 after Chinese regulators announced a probe of export data and new restrictions on loans.
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Longer lives
https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2013/06/21/longer-lives/
Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on June 21, 2013 The UK government has launched a new public health site to provide citizens with easily accessible data about premature death and mortality rates: http://longerlives.phe.org.
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American Federation of Labor records now online
https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2020/02/07/american-federation-of-labor-records-now-online/
Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on February 7, 2020 Available to researchers from the Library of Congress Website .
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Innovative use of social media in the Pakistan elections
https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2013/05/17/innovative-use-of-social-media-in-the-pakistan-elections/
Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on May 17, 2013 The Election commission worked with a site called Jaag Pakistan website which aimed to encourage reporting of electoral fraud and violence. This used crowd sourced technology.
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What do students want from university?
https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2017/06/23/what-do-students-want-from-university/
Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on June 23, 2017 Interesting new study released by Comres for Universities UK entitled Education, consumer rights and maintaining trust , focuses on how students view their roles as consumers –...
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Classic Movie Posters Online
https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2018/01/26/classic-movie-posters-online/
Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on January 26, 2018 Great new digital collection from the Harry Ransom Center University of Texas at Austin . They are gradually placing online over 10,000 posters from the 1920s-1970s.
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LGBT+ public officials
https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2022/05/06/lgbt-public-officials/
Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on May 6, 2022 Queer politics databases from Princeton University New Queer Politics website provides data on openly self-declared LGBT+ officials worldwide.