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Violence against older people
https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2017/06/16/violence-against-older-people/
Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on June 16, 2017 15th June has been designated by the United Nations as World Elder Abuse Awareness Day to increase knowledge and work to eliminate abuse and violence against older people worldwide.
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United States Census Bureau Repository launched
https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2018/02/16/united-states-census-bureau-repository-launched/
Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on February 16, 2018 The United States Census Bureau Data Repository is hosted by ICPSR (Inter-university Consortium for Political and Social Research).
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Women in Trousers
https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2018/02/16/women-in-trousers/
Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on February 16, 2018 A visual archive which draws upon resources taken from the Database of Mid-Victorian Illustration and The Illustration Archive.
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Fake news spreads faster than true
https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2018/03/16/fake-news-spreads-faster-than-true/
Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on March 16, 2018 A team from Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) cross-checked the spread of 126,000 stories on Twitter against a database of stories fact-checked by six...
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Enhanced access to data from International Telecommunications Union
https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2012/08/16/enhanced-access-to-data-from-itu-international-telecommunications-union/
Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on August 16, 2012 http://www.itu.int/ The ITU collects data on mobile phones, internet use and access worldwide. Its website offers some free statistics.
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EU Screen…
https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2012/09/03/eu-screen-2/
Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on September 3, 2012 …launches some great new themed collections. http://www.euscreen.eu/exhibitions.html This EU funded project aims to digitise clips and programmes from major collections in Europe.
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National Archives timeline of foreign offices
https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2012/09/03/national-archives-timeline-of-foreign-offices/
Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on September 3, 2012 http://labs.nationalarchives.gov.uk/wordpress/index.
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Tweeting #OWS
https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2012/10/05/tweeting-ows/
Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on October 5, 2012 http://disc.library.emory.edu/ows/ A great new digital archive from Emory University. Ten million tweets about Occupy Wall Street have now been collected.
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University of Rochester’s Empty Closet digital Archive
https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2012/10/22/university-of-rochesters-empty-closet-digital-archive/
Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on October 22, 2012 http://www.lib.rochester.edu/index.cfm?PAGE=4769 Free access to one of the longest running LGBT newspapers. The Gay Liberation Front launched the Empty Closet in 1971.
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Al Jazeera Archive
https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2012/10/26/al-jazeera-archive/
Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on October 26, 2012 http://cc.aljazeera.net/ Free access to video footage released by news service Al Jazeera under various Creative Commons licenses.