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Facebook launches Notify News App
https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2015/11/20/facebook-launches-notify-news-app/
Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on November 20, 2015 As a dedicated app for iOS, it’s designed to be a central hub for alerts from a variety of partners, including BuzzFeed, CNN, Washington Post, Vogue and the Weather Channel.
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Refugee use of mobile phones
https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2016/05/20/refugee-use-of-mobile-phones/
Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on May 20, 2016 T he Open University has released a research report on how refugees use smartphones. It was led by Prof. Marie Gillespie and was carried out in partnership with France Medias Monde.
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Global Social Theory
https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2015/10/26/global-social-theory/
Posted by William Farrell in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on October 26, 2015 Globalsocialtheory.org is a new, collaborative resource on social theory from a global perspective.
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Locating London’s past
https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2024/10/04/locating-londons-past/
Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on October 4, 2024 Locating London’s past This revamped website enables searching of digital resources relating to early modern and eighteenth-century London.
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Where is the world’s happiest country?
https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2016/03/24/where-is-the-worlds-happiest-country/
Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on March 24, 2016 Find out in the 2016 update to the World Happiness report . It ranks 156 nations according to a number of detailed criteria which are explained in the methodology.
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The Social Welfare History Image Portal
https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2017/10/30/the-social-welfare-history-image-portal/
Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on October 30, 2017 This great site provides free access to a wealth of images drawn from the collections of VCU Libraries, Union Presbyterian Seminary Library, Beth Ahabah Museum & Archives,...
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Create your own QuickMark set in GradeMark
https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/lli/2016/07/11/create-your-own-quickmark-set-in-grademark/
Posted by Stephen Walker in Leicester Learning Institute: Enhancing learning and teaching on July 11, 2016 The default QuickMark sets in GradeMark may not have the sorts of comments that you want to make on assignments.
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The World of RePEc
https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2017/10/24/the-world-of-repec/
Posted by William Farrell in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on October 24, 2017 A new paper explores the world of RePEc (Research Papers in Economics) the major database of economics papers.
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Cybervault- How is the US government involved in cyberhacking/ defence and war?
https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2016/04/08/cybervault-how-is-the-us-government-involved-in-cyberhacking-defence-and-war/
Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on April 8, 2016 National Security Archive based at George Washington University has just launched this new specialist site to reveal and monitor the activities of the US government concerning cyberspace.
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Aid data
https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2016/04/25/aid-data/
Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on April 25, 2016 Financial tracking service United Nations UN Office for the Co-ordination of Humanitarian Affairs (UN OCHA).