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Citizen Evidence Lab
https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2014/07/21/citizen-evidence-lab/
Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on July 21, 2014 The Citizen Evidence Lab is a new site from Amnesty International which has been created to help journalists and human rights workers authenticate user citizen journalist video materials.
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Development studies
https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2016/12/16/development-studies/
Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on December 16, 2016 Two major annual reports released recently. African Human Development report 2016 focuses upon women’s empowerment. The Arab Human Development report focuses upon Youth.
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Who trusts advertising ?
https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2015/10/23/who-trusts-advertising/
Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on October 23, 2015 Free to download from the Nielsen site a report on global trust in advertising. It considers whether people trust traditional media more than the internet online and mobile.
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Journal of Cultural Economy
https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2011/02/03/journal-of-cultural-economy/
Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on February 3, 2011 We now have access to the Journal of Cultural Economy from 2008 onwards. Find it on Leicester Elink.
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Open Secrets.org
https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2011/11/22/open-secrets-org/
Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on November 22, 2011 http://www.opensecrets.org/overview/index.php From the Center for Responsive Politics. Includes data for the US 2012 presidential elections .
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Bloomberg: effects of QE in fixed income markets
https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2013/06/07/bloomberg-effects-of-qe-in-fixed-income-markets/
Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on June 7, 2013 Quantitative easing has increased the level of liquidity in financial markets and helped drive down yields in government bond markets.
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2017 Atlas of Sustainable development goals
https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2017/05/08/2017-atlas-of-sustainable-development-goals/
Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on May 8, 2017 Just released by the World Bank a visual mapping of progress towards the 17 Sustainable Development goals which include: ending poverty, good health, access to education, sustainable cities.
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Access to new journal titles
https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2011/02/02/access-to-new-journal-titles/
Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on February 2, 2011 We now have access to: Fashion Theory: the journal of dress, body and culture (1997 – ) (which also includes access to Fashion Practice).
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Expansion of GovInfo (US government)
https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2019/10/14/expansion-of-govinfo-us-government/
Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on October 14, 2019 For those seeking full-text US government documents Govinfo has now added more than 1500 Congressional Hearings since 2008.
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14 consecutive years of deterioration in political rights and civil liberties worldwide
https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2020/03/16/14-consecutive-years-of-deterioration-in-political-rights-and-civil-liberties-worldwide/
Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on March 16, 2020 According to the latest annual summary of civil liberties and human rights worldwide , there have been 14 years of deterioration in political rights and civil liberties.