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March 2025
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World Revenue Longitudinal Database (WoRLD)
https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2025/01/13/world-revenue-longitudinal-database-world/
Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on January 13, 2025 This IMF database tracks government revenue trends in 193 countries since the early 1990s.
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Bitcoin ‘offers opportunities to charities’
https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2015/05/08/bitcoin-offers-opportunities-to-charities/
Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on May 8, 2015 According to the latest report from the Charities Aid Foundation online currencies such as Bitcoin could enable charities to cut currency transfer costs and encourage transparency.
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LGBT Hate crime under-reported
https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2015/06/29/lgbt-hate-crime-under-reported/
Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on June 29, 2015 88% of UK LGBT people have experience emotional or physical hate crime and only 14% have felt able to report the most recent crimes to the police.
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Suffragettes on File
https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2018/03/16/suffragettes-on-file/
Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on March 16, 2018 A new educational resource from the National Archives designed for teachers of Key stage 1,3,5 – Suffragettes on File .
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Wikipedia bans the Daily Mail as an ‘unreliable source’
https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2017/02/17/wikipedia-bans-the-daily-mail-as-an-unreliable-source/
Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on February 17, 2017 See the discussion from the Wikipedia reliable sources noticeboard There is also some interesting discussion by the Nieman Lab Also see this recent article on search strategies in...
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Opengendertracking project
https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2013/03/22/opengendertracking-project/
Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on March 22, 2013 A project which aims to build software to track gender content in online news stories. The website provides an explanation of the project. This launch page http://opengendertracking.
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Customising and sharing your Padlet
https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/lli/2016/06/13/customising-and-sharing-your-padlet/
Posted by Stephen Walker in Leicester Learning Institute: Enhancing learning and teaching on June 13, 2016 You can customise your Padlet by adding different colour backgrounds, or header images, and the posts can be displayed in different ways.
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Sharing QuickMark sets
https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/lli/2016/07/15/sharing-quickmark-sets/
Posted by Stephen Walker in Leicester Learning Institute: Enhancing learning and teaching on July 15, 2016 If you create your own QuickMark sets, they will only be available to you under your log in. However, you can share your QuickMark sets with your colleagues.
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Katy Bunning
https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/museumstudies/author/klg22/
Katy is the current Programme Director of Museum Studies by Distance Learning and a Research Associate in the School of Museum Studies.