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Bloomberg: Macroeconomic data
https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2013/05/22/bloomberg-macroeconomic-data/
Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on May 22, 2013 The U.K. economy grew 0.3 percent in the first quarter, avoiding a triple dip recession. Bloomberg functions show much of the recovery comes from the services industry.
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Bloomberg: Environmental, Social and Corporate Governance/Corporate Social Reponsibility
https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2013/06/17/bloomberg-environmental-social-and-corporate-governancecorporate-social-reponsibility/
Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on June 17, 2013 ESG (or CSR) has been topical over the last five years.
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Bloomberg: carbon offsets and environmental issues
https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2013/06/24/bloomberg-carbon-offsets-and-environmental-issues/
Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on June 24, 2013 Carbon markets remain under pressure with the collapse of United Nations climate change talks last week.
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Think Tanks
https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2023/10/27/think-tanks/
Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on October 27, 2023 An annual snapshot of the state of the think tank sector worldwide, drawing on data from the Open Think Tank Directory and a sector survey.
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Nashriyah: digital Iranian historic newspapers
https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2016/02/05/nashriyah-digital-iranian-historic-newspapers/
Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on February 5, 2016 The University of Manchester now provides free access to a digital library of Iranian newspapers .
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Are emojis sexist?
https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2016/05/13/are-emojis-sexist/
Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on May 13, 2016 Certainly Google engineers think so as they recently submitted a proposal to Unicode: s ee Expanding Emoji Professions: Reducing Gender Inequality for 13 proposed designs to...
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Parentview
https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2011/10/24/parentview/
Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on October 24, 2011 Parentview http://parentview.ofsted.gov.uk/ A new citizen focused initiative launched by the UK Ofsted body which is giving parents the right to comment on their child’s school.
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Politics twitter feeds
https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2011/11/28/politics-twitter-feeds/
Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on November 28, 2011 Politicker USA http://www.politickerusa.com/ Good directory of twitter feeds from politicians, parties and USA presidential candidates. Follow them all in one place.
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The Ill-Treatment and Torture Project
https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2011/08/05/the-ill-treatment-and-torture-project/
Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on August 5, 2011 http://www.politicalscience.uncc.edu/cconra16/UNCC/ITT_Data_Collection.
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Mexico Turns to Social Media for Information and Survival
https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2011/09/30/mexico-turns-to-social-media-for-information-and-survival/
Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on September 30, 2011 Mexicans are using social media sites such as twitter and face book to exchange information about violence, areas to avoid. Key examples are Wikinarco – https://www.wikinarco.