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• 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.

• 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.

• 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.

• 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.

• Humanitarian Data

  https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2014/08/19/humanitarian-data/

  Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on August 19, 2014 The UN Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA) has launched the  Humanitarian Data Exchange   to offer a single access point to statistics from the...

• UNV Knowledge Portal on Volunteerism

  https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2020/09/11/unv-knowledge-portal-on-volunteerism/

  Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on September 11, 2020 The UNV Knowledge Portal on Volunteering  is  a great new resource it  includes a volunteering database containing country laws, policies, statistical measurement.

• 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.

• 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.

• Israel and Palestine

  https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2023/10/27/israel-and-palestine/

  Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on October 27, 2023 AN updated fact sheet on the conflict in Israel and Palestine    Get the statistical facts and chronological timeline from the ACLED (Armed Conflict Location & Event...