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Hacking the academy
https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2011/09/23/hacking-the-academy/
Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on September 23, 2011 http://www.digitalculture.org/hacking-the-academy/ Access the full text of a new book released by MPublishing, the publishing division of the University of Michigan Library.
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Map Tube
https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2011/09/30/map-tube/
Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on September 30, 2011 http://www.maptube.org/ A great free resource for viewing and mashing up maps. Basically maps can be overlayed to compare data visually.
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Event: Update on UKRI Open Access books policy
https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/library/2023/06/28/event-update-on-ukri-open-access-books-policy/
Posted by William Farrell in Library and Learning Services on June 28, 2023 Join us on the 17 July for an important update on UKRI’s open access policy for academic books. Library Research Services will be explaining how to apply to UKRI’s new fund for open access academic books.
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War of the Worlds Letters
https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2025/04/11/war-of-the-world-letters/
Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on April 11, 2025 A digital library collection from the University of Michigan , The Richard Wilson – Orson Welles Papers preserves 1,349 letters sent to the New York City office of Orson Welles’s...
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It is Ok to not feel OK
https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/pgrcareers/2020/07/01/it-is-ok-to-not-feel-ok/
Posted by Martin Coffey in Postgraduate Researcher Careers on July 1, 2020 At the start of the Wellbeing Webinars for PGRs and ECRs here at the University of Leicester I sometimes find myself referring to the trend for emails to begin with, or contain, reference to ‘these...
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Harriman recollected: 1899 voyage to Alaska digital collection
https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2025/03/14/harriman-recollected-1899-voyage-to-alaska-digital-collection/
Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on March 14, 2025 A new digital collection from Penn State University.
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MOVIN’ ON UP: A Social Mobility Comic
https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2025/05/16/movin-on-up-a-social-mobility-comic/
Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on May 16, 2025 The research of Anthony Miro Born expressed in the form of a comic to communicate easily complex ideas to a wider audience.
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esutton
https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/sapphire/author/es225/
I'm an experienced qualitative researcher and part-time PhD student.
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Opportunity Index
https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2025/05/16/opportunity-index/
Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on May 16, 2025 A map and report released this week by the Sutton trust which explores social mobility in relationship to background and geographical location. alongside it is an interactive map .
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Enhanced access to data from International Telecommunications Union
https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2012/08/16/enhanced-access-to-data-from-itu-international-telecommunications-union/
Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on August 16, 2012 http://www.itu.int/ The ITU collects data on mobile phones, internet use and access worldwide. Its website offers some free statistics.