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• Opendata for Africa

  https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2013/07/26/opendata-for-africa/

  Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on July 26, 2013 Great free open data portal just launched by the African Development Bank. Covers over 50 nations providing recent data.

• Factiva tutorials

  https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2013/12/23/factiva-tutorials/

  Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on December 23, 2013 Library tutorials on how to use Factiva ( http://www2.le.ac.uk/library/find/databases/f/factiva ) available. Finding newspaper articles: https://connect.le.ac.

• African American Student Project

  https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2022/07/29/african-american-student-project/

  Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on July 29, 2022 Database – African American Student Project  University of Michigan resource covering 1853-1970 which documents and maps black students enrolled at the university.

• Critical race theory  

  https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2022/08/16/critical-race-theory/

  Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on August 16, 2022 UCLA Law school project tracking attacks on the teaching of critical race theory in the USA. Critical race theory seeks to expose systematic racism and racist cultures.

• Index of African Governance

  https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2023/02/03/index-of-african-governance/

  Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on February 3, 2023 The  2022 Ibrahim Index of African Governance has just been published.

• 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.

• Labour Together

  https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2016/06/03/labour-together/

  Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on June 3, 2016 Find out more about this new political grouping launched this week by members of the Labour Party to unify and renew the party.

• World Wide Income Inequality Database – updated

  https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2017/03/24/world-wide-income-inequality-database-updated/

  Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on March 24, 2017 Latest release 2017 WIID3.

• Trump’s remarks and speeches

  https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2020/01/20/trumps-remarks-and-speeches/

  Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on January 20, 2020   FactCheck.org has launched a special section on its website for fact checking transcripts of the presidents remarks and political speeches .

• US Armed Forces: Overseas activity

  https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2013/05/17/us-armed-forces-overseas-activity/

  Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on May 17, 2013 Instances of Use of United States Armed Forces Abroad, 1798-2013 Useful reference report from Congressional research services, 23 pages long.