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UN Document Digitisation Project
https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2012/03/02/un-document-digitisation-project/
Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on March 2, 2012 The UN has created a web page http://www.un.org/depts/dhl/deplib/digitization_program.htm where you can find out about the progress of its document digitisation programme.
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The Universal Human Rights Index
https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2012/04/27/the-universal-human-rights-index/
Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on April 27, 2012 http://uhri.ohchr.org/ Quickly trace recommendations relating to individual countries from the leading intergovernmental organisations.
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World Development Indicators 2012
https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2012/05/04/world-development-indicators-2012/
Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on May 4, 2012 Now available from the World Bank: http://data.worldbank.
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Who’s downloading pirated papers?
https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2016/05/06/whos-downloading-pirated-papers/
Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on May 6, 2016 Fascinating article from Science magazine which concludes that students and researchers from around the world are. It focuses upon downloads from SCI-HUB.
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The Chilling: Global trends in online violence against women journalists
https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2021/05/17/the-chilling-global-trends-in-online-violence-against-women-journalists/
Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on May 17, 2021 Based on a global survey of 901 journalists from 125 countries, this new UNESCO study found 73% identifying as women said they had experienced online violence.
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New suffrage history podcast
https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2018/05/18/new-suffrage-history-podcast/
Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on May 18, 2018 From the LSE: From People’s Dissent to Royal Assent: Sylvia Pankhurst and the struggle for the vote.
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Expansion of GovInfo (US government)
https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2019/10/14/expansion-of-govinfo-us-government/
Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on October 14, 2019 For those seeking full-text US government documents Govinfo has now added more than 1500 Congressional Hearings since 2008.
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The U.S. Media Index database
https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2021/05/24/the-u-s-media-index-database/
Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on May 24, 2021 F ind out who owns what . Compiled by the Future of Media Project the index details the 176 parent companies of daily news outlets.
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Demos Integration Hub
https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2015/06/29/demos-integration-hub/
Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on June 29, 2015 Think-tank Demos has created a special mapping integration area which is examining evidence of racial and ethnic integration/segregation in Britain today.
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How did UK newspapers report the 2016 EU referendum campaigns?
https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2017/05/12/how-did-uk-newspapers-report-the-2016-eu-referendum-campaigns/
Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on May 12, 2017 Download the latest fascinating research from Kings College London. It is the first complete survey of over 351,000 articles from news outlets published over a 20-week period.