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• Missing Migrants Project

  https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2023/07/28/missing-migrants-project/

  Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on July 28, 2023 The  Missing Migrants Project  from the International Organization for Migration (IOM) documents reported cases of deaths or missing people in international migration since 2014.

• World Investment Report 2018 launched

  https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2018/07/09/world-investment-report-2018-launched/

  Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on July 9, 2018 The  World Investment Report  has been published annually since 1991 by UNCTAD. It provides specialist reports on trends in foreign direct investment worldwide.

• Little Data book on Gender

  https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2019/05/31/little-data-book-on-gender/

  Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on May 31, 2019 A new handy reference tool from the World Bank for those seeking accessible statistics on gender. It covers 217 countries, tracing progress in closing gender gaps between 2000-2017.

• What is the state of open data?

  https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2017/06/16/what-is-the-state-of-open-data/

  Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on June 16, 2017 The Open Knowledge Foundation has just published its open Data index.

• More data portals

  https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2015/12/01/more-data-portals/

  Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on December 1, 2015 O pen Data Inception   has mapped over 1600 open data portals around the world.  Hover over the maps to get statistics on different nations.

• Who owns the UK Media?

  https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2015/11/04/who-owns-the-uk-media/

  Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on November 4, 2015 An i nteresting new report from the Media Reform Coalition states that 3 companies own 71% of the market.

• 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.

• FRASER

  https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2013/08/21/fraser/

  Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on August 21, 2013 Federal Reserve Archival System for Economic Research from the Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis has added some archival documents dating back to the 1930s.

• Women in Congress, 1917-2017

  https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2017/04/24/women-in-congress-1917-2017/

  Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on April 24, 2017 Free access to this reference book from the Library of Congress.

• 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 .