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• United Nations disability statistics

  https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2018/07/31/united-nations-disability-statistics/

  Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on July 31, 2018 A new section of the UN main website now provides free access to data which it has collected since 1988. Sources are national level surveys, censuses and reports.

• Glocalism

  https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2014/01/31/glocalism/

  Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on January 31, 2014 Glocalism …a new peer-reviewed, open-access and cross-disciplinary journal, published every four months by the association Globus et Locus.

• New Social Science open access archive launched

  https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2016/07/22/new-social-science-open-access-archive-launched/

  Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on July 22, 2016 SocArXiv , being developed in association with Center for Open Science and an international research body of advisors  will provide free open access to social science research papers .

• We Wear Culture

  https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2017/07/13/we-wear-culture/

  Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on July 13, 2017 Great New Project from Google Arts and Culture Offers which offers free access to 30,000 Digitized Images and VR Films of Fashion Pieces From 180 famous Archives, Museums and Others.

• Access to information aids development

  https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2017/07/28/access-to-information-aids-development/

  Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on July 28, 2017 …according to the Development and Access to Information (DA2I) report from the Technology and Social Change Group (TASCHA) at the University of Washington Information School  and...

• Sex discrimination and sexism

  https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2018/01/26/sex-discrimination-and-sexism/

  Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on January 26, 2018 The Fawcett Society Sex Discrimination review  found significant failings in the current laws.

• LGBTQ+ Student Mental Health

  https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2018/09/03/lgbtq-student-mental-health/

  Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on September 3, 2018 The challenges and needs of gender, sexual and romantic minorities in Higher Education The latest report from Student Minds completed by 467 students, recent graduates and members of...

• New data visualisation site from the Office for National Statistics

  https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2016/03/11/new-data-visualisation-site-from-the-office-for-national-statistics/

  Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on March 11, 2016 Now in Beta version  Visual.ONS http://visual.ons.gov.uk/ which aims to provide new visually interesting and accessible displays of official statistics.

• Bloomberg: a merger

  https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2013/08/28/bloomberg-a-merger/

  Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on August 28, 2013 The recently merged mining and commodity trading company Glencore Xstrata reported a $7.7billion write-down of assets previously owned by Xstrata.

• Women and pension schemes

  https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2014/11/21/women-and-pension-schemes/

  Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on November 21, 2014 The latest annual report from Scottish Widows shows that more British are  women saving into pension schemes.  However women  typically still saved less than men.