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• Racism and misogyny across public services

  https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2024/06/14/racism-and-misogyny-across-public-services/

  Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on June 14, 2024 Public Harms: Racism and Misogyny across Public Services  A report from The Fawcett Society and The Black Equity organization highlights the racism against and the invisibility of...

• Is the electoral system broken?

  https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2015/06/08/is-the-electoral-system-broken/

  Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on June 8, 2015 According to the Electoral Reform Society  the UK electoral system is in crisis as the first-past-the-post system does not reflect votes cast.

• How has social media usage changed 2005-15?

  https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2015/10/20/how-has-social-media-usage-changed-2005-15/

  Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on October 20, 2015 Find out by checking the results from the latest Pew Internet research report which covers the USA.

• US Government publications new website

  https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2016/02/19/us-government-publications-new-website/

  Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on February 19, 2016 GPO Launches Beta of govinfo.gov.   The site will eventually replace Federal Digital System (FDsys) in 2017.

• Poverty is sexist

  https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2016/03/11/poverty-is-sexist/

  Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on March 11, 2016 ONE launched the report Poverty is Sexist a rguing that poverty and gender inequality go hand-in-hand.

• 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.

• Business and Management MOOCs

  https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2016/06/24/business-and-management-moocs/

  Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on June 24, 2016 For a subject-based list take a look at the FT tracker for business and management In the UK a major service with content from the British Library and other major universities is...

• International Political Science Association launch a MOOC

  https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2016/06/24/international-political-science-association-launch-a-mooc/

  Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on June 24, 2016 Coming soon a range of free politics and International relations courses from this specialist professional society The blog describes how they aim to form a core introductory curriculum.

• Online harassment: US

  https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2018/01/12/metoo-and-gender-equality-france-and-us/

  Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on January 12, 2018 A recent Pew report on the American population has also found that the genders and different sectors of the population have different conceptions of what constitutes online harassment.

• Democracy is in Crisis

  https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2018/01/26/democracy-is-in-crisis/

  Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on January 26, 2018 According to the latest annual report from Freedom House on the state of civil and political liberties worldwide the situation is worsening.