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Digital Data Gender Divide
https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2018/11/30/digital-data-gender-divide/
Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on November 30, 2018 Today worldwide 327 million fewer women than men have a smartphone and can access the mobile Internet. This report from the OECD considers what can be done.
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UNESCO’s Internet Universality Indicators
https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2018/12/10/unescos-internet-universality-indicators/
Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on December 10, 2018 This is based on 4 principles.
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LGBT+ History month
https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2019/01/31/lgbt-history-month/
Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on January 31, 2019 February is LGBT+ History month. Here is a list of some of the many LGBT-related resources in the library https://rl.talis.
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United Nations Yearbook on Human Rights
https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2019/02/08/united-nations-yearbook-on-human-rights/
Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on February 8, 2019 Yearbook on Human Rights (1946-1988) now available online Between 1946 and 1988 the United Nations published annual editions of the Yearbook on Human Rights.
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Where is the World’s Most Expensive City?
https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2019/03/22/where-is-the-worlds-most-expensive-city/
Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on March 22, 2019 …according to the latest EIU intelligence report? In 2019 it was shared by Singapore, Hong Kong and Paris. The least expensive city is Caracas, Venezuela.
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Press freedom is declining
https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2019/04/29/press-freedom-is-declining/
Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on April 29, 2019 According to the latest annual report from Reporteurs Sans Frontières which ranks 180 nations worldwide only 24% are rated as having a good level of press freedom, a decline from...
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Principled Aid Index
https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2019/04/29/principled-aid-index/
Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on April 29, 2019 Launched in March by the Overseas development index , this index ranks bilateral Development Assistance Committee (DAC) donors by the extent to which they give aid to countries...
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Historic election data
https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2019/05/03/historic-election-data/
Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on May 3, 2019 For historic elections data see the Elections centre University of Plymouth It provides free access to detailed handbooks of trends and results from 1991-2011 Historic election...
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LGBTI inclusion index
https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2019/05/03/lgbti-inclusion-index/
Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on May 3, 2019 United Nations Development Programme has just devised the first indicators on how to measure LGBTI inclusion.
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Cuban Radionovelas
https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2019/06/11/cuban-radionovelas/
Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on June 11, 2019 Currently being digitised by Tulane University library this collection of original Spanish-language radio soap operas — better known as radionovelas produced by Cuban Emigres in Miami...