Search
-
Independent digital news organisations
https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2023/09/01/independent-digital-news-organisations/
Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on September 1, 2023 Project Oasis Europe A year-long project to map the extent nature and impact of independent news outlets in over 40 European nations.
-
Congressional Directories Back to the 1800s digitised
https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2023/09/29/congressional-directories-back-to-the-1800s-digitised/
Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on September 29, 2023 The US Government Publishing Office (GPO) has aigitized all Congressional Directories back to the 1800s.
-
Bloomberg: geographical distribution of revenue
https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2013/05/28/bloomberg-geographical-distribution-of-revenue/
Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on May 28, 2013 Analysing a company’s revenue geographic breakdown is interesting angle to predict future strategic development. Find case studies using the function FFM on your Bloomberg terminals.
-
NATO Encyclopedia 2016
https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2017/03/10/nato-encyclopedia-2016/
Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on March 10, 2017 Useful reference tool on membership and policies: includes statistics. Also worth exploring the online library has treaties and reports from 1949 onwards.
-
Inspection of Youth Offending Work in Leicestershire and Rutland
https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2012/06/20/inspection-of-youth-offending-work-in-leicestershire-and-rutland/
Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on June 20, 2012 The latest report of HM Inspectorate of Probation on the Inspection of Youth Offending Work in Leicestershire and Rutland is now published.
-
Amplifying women’s voices: A Gender Balance Guide For Media
https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2020/05/26/amplifying-womens-voices-a-gender-balance-guide-for-media/
Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on May 26, 2020 A useful guide from WAN-IFRA and Women in the news It aims to educate news rooms on gender stereotypes in the media and how to avoid them.
-
UNESCO open data
https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2015/03/30/unesco-open-data/
Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on March 30, 2015 UNESCO has created a new portal with data on annual expenditure and ongoing projects since 2014. It includes donor, regional and theme based information.
-
1 million visits to UK Food Banks
https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2015/04/27/1-million-visits-to-uk-food-banks/
Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on April 27, 2015 Trussell Trust has just released the shocking figures that in the last year more than 1 million allocations of food were made by the charity.
-
Where do LGBT people live?
https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2017/05/03/where-do-lgbt-people-live/
Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on May 3, 2017 Data from the office of National Statistics which highlights sexual identity at a local authority level from 2013-2015. It also includes breakdown by age and gender.
-
Robert MacFarlane
https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2021/07/26/4585/
Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on July 26, 2021 Robert Macfarlane, scientist and writer, has been on Desert Island Discs.