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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...
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Opendata for Africa
https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2013/07/26/opendata-for-africa/
Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on July 26, 2013 Great free open data portal just launched by the African Development Bank. Covers over 50 nations providing recent data.
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Index of African Governance
https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2023/02/03/index-of-african-governance/
Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on February 3, 2023 The 2022 Ibrahim Index of African Governance has just been published.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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...
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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.