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New frontier database
https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2011/01/24/new-frontier-database/
Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on January 24, 2011 Columbia Journalism review has launched a new database which aims to index and provide information about digital news outlets in the USA.
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UNESCO World Atlas of Gender Equality in Education
https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2012/03/09/unesco-world-atlas-of-gender-equality-in-education/
Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on March 9, 2012 With over 120 maps, charts and tables, the UNESCO World Atlas of Gender Equality in Education enables readers to visualize the educational pathways of girls and boys in terms of access,...
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How diverse are UK journalists?
https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2016/05/13/how-diverse-are-uk-journalists/
Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on May 13, 2016 Find out by reading the results of a survey of 7,000 released this week by Reuters Institute. It is based on a survey of 700 journalists conducted in December 2015.
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WTO Tariff & Trade Data
https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2025/04/11/wto-tariff-trade-data/
Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on April 11, 2025 Recently launched, the WTO Tariff & Trade Data is an online platform providing enhanced access to official tariff and trade figures for over 150 economies.
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Lit&Phil Society: Ernest Rutherford: from Kiwi farm boy to President of the Royal Society
https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/physicsastronomy/2022/11/08/litphil-society-ernest-rutherford-from-kiwi-farm-boy-to-president-of-the-royal-society/
Posted by Physics & Astronomy in Physics and Astronomy Blog on 8 November 2022 Professor Mary Fowler will give a talk to the Leicester Literary and Philosophical Society on Monday, 14th November, about her Great Grandfather, Ernest Rutherford, the father of nuclear physics.
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Divided Society: Northern Ireland 1990-1998
https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2018/02/14/divided-society-northern-ireland-1990-1998/
Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on February 14, 2018 Part of the Northern Ireland Political Collection, curated by the Linen Hall Library, has been digitised.
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Two new Chinese Internet archives
https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2013/12/09/two-new-chinese-internet-archives/
Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on December 9, 2013 …from the Richard C. Rudolph East Asian Library, UCLA . Both capture snapshots of chinese websites periodically since 2012, preserving the content and can be searched by keyword.
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South-South Galaxy
https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2019/05/10/south-south-galaxy/
Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on May 10, 2019 A new website launched the UN Office for South-South Cooperation (UNOSSC). The project intends to give support to countries of the South, so they can share best practice and knowledge.
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Are 15-year-olds prepared to deal with fake news and misinformation?
https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2021/05/17/are-15-year-olds-prepared-to-deal-with-fake-news-and-misinformation/
Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on May 17, 2021 A report launched by the OECD this week Data based on the cross-national PISA (Programme for International Student Assessment) surveys.
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Tool for humanitarian workers
https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2021/09/20/tool-for-humanitarian-workers/
Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on September 20, 2021 Urban-Nexus Environmental Assessment Tool (U-NEAT+) The United Nations launched a free online tool recently which is to help humanitarian aid workers rapidly identify and...