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• Europe-wide data

  https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2016/02/26/europe-wide-data/

  Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on February 26, 2016 T he European Data portal has now passed from Beta to permanence.  You can now use it to quickly find news and the latest open data from EU nations.

• Arab Development Portal

  https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2016/06/03/arab-development-portal/

  Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on June 3, 2016 An initiative of the Coordination Group of Arab, National and Regional Development Institutions (CG), the Islamic Development Bank and the OPEC Fund for International Development (OFID),...

• Influence of Google algorithms on political news search results

  https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2017/08/29/influence-of-google-algorithms-on-political-news-search-results/

  Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on August 29, 2017 A major German project is examining the influence of Google algorithms on political news search results.

• Political TV Ad Archive

  https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2016/01/29/political-tv-ad-archive/

  Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on January 29, 2016 Political TV Ad Archive   Just launched by the Internet Archive to provide a resource for the 2016 US elections.

• Modern slavery

  https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2017/08/11/modern-slavery/

  Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on August 11, 2017 The commercial company Maplethrorpe have just released their 2017 modern slavery index . You can view a summary on their website.

• Millionaires and Inequality

  https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2017/11/24/millionaires-and-inequality/

  Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on November 24, 2017 Which countries have the most millionaires?  Find out in the latest Credit Suisse Global Wealth Report which also has sections on household inequality and changes in income...

• Economic Wellbeing Explorer

  https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2025/05/02/economic-wellbeing-explorer/

  Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on May 2, 2025 This new data resource has been recently launched by Smart Data Foundry.

• Advertising on Social Media

  https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2018/11/02/advertising-on-social-media/

  Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on November 2, 2018 As a move to greater transparency Facebook has  launche d this searchable database about political adverts appearing on Facebook and who is funding them.

• What happens when gender quotas are introduced for  academic hiring committees?

  https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2019/01/18/what-happens-when-gender-quotas-are-introduced-for-academic-hiring-committees/

  Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on January 18, 2019 Interesting working paper covering the situation in France which found that after gender quota in academic hiring committees were imposed in France in 2015 there was a negative impact...

• Cyberpolicy portal launched

  https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2019/02/08/cyberpolicy-portal-launched/

  Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on February 8, 2019 The United Nations Institute for Disarmament Research (UNIDIR) has just launched a Cyber Policy Portal that provides researchers with a single route to quickly get information and...