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Junk News Aggregator
https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2018/11/09/junk-news-aggregator/
Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on November 9, 2018 A new resource which aims to track the spread of junk news on Facebook.
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Global Childhood report published
https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2019/06/10/global-childhood-report-published/
Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on June 10, 2019 Save the Children has just published its third annual report which examines the condition of children in different nations worldwide.
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Men continue to dominate positions of power in British Life
https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2020/01/20/men-continue-to-dominate-positions-of-power-in-british-life/
Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on January 20, 2020 According to the latest Fawcett sex and power report . The situation is even worse for BAME women.
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Digital Incivility
https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2020/03/06/digital-incivility/
Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on March 6, 2020 The Microsoft Digital Civility Index (DCI) Microsoft has been measuring online behaviour and has found a worrying increase of bad behaviour and digital incivility over the last 4 years.
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EU Customs Union explained
https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2018/10/19/eu-customs-union-explained/
Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on October 19, 2018 The EU Customs Union created a free-trade area where goods circulate freely, without customs duties at the borders between EU countries.
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Women and the Internet
https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2020/03/16/women-and-the-internet/
Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on March 16, 2020 Tim Berners–Lee open letter why the Internet is not working for women and girls.
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World Kindness day 13th November
https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2020/11/16/world-kindness-day-13th-november/
Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on November 16, 2020 To celebrate this, some special social sciences resources. The world giving index from CAF measures giving to charity and willingness to help a stranger amongst individuals.
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European Data Portal
https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2015/12/01/european-data-portal/
Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on December 1, 2015 Launched this month, a new resource developed by the European Commission offering free access to over 240,000 datasets from 28 European Nations.
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Inclusive Growth Monitor
https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2016/05/20/inclusive-growth-monitor/
Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on May 20, 2016 New from the Joseph Rowntree Trust a tool for examining and measuring the relationship between poverty and growth .
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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.