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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.

• Global university ranking of employability

  https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2016/11/18/global-university-ranking-of-employability/

  Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on November 18, 2016 Which university graduates are favoured by employers?  See the 2016 ranking of 150 institutions from the Times Higher .

• Development studies

  https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2016/12/16/development-studies/

  Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on December 16, 2016 Two major annual reports released recently. African Human Development report 2016 focuses upon women’s empowerment. The Arab Human Development report focuses upon Youth.

• We need more women in science.

  https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2017/02/10/we-need-more-women-in-science/

  Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on February 10, 2017 The UN International Day of Women and Girls in Science was celebrated on 11 February.

• Dangerous Women Project

  https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2017/03/10/dangerous-women-project/

  Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on March 10, 2017 Research project from the Institute for Advanced Studies in the Humanities at the University of Edinburgh.

• 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.

• New address for this blog

  https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2013/08/22/new-address-for-the-blog/

  Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on August 22, 2013 Hello all.  The Social Sciences Librarians’ Blog has a new address https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/   RSS feed addresses have also changed.

• Health Databases from WHO

  https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2013/09/27/health-databases-from-who/

  Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on September 27, 2013 WHO Europe new statistical database- HlthRes-DB Contains nearly 200 indicators on human and technical resources for health covering 53 states from WHO Europe.

• OHCHR anti-discrimination database launched

  https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2013/09/27/ohchr-anti-discrimination-database-launched/

  Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on September 27, 2013 OHCHR anti-discrimination database launched .

• Peoples Assembly against Austerity

  https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2014/02/07/peoples-assembly-against-austerity/

  Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on February 7, 2014 Peoples Assembly against Austerity launch new website Includes materials from unions, socialists and campaign groups against welfare cuts.