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• Better Life Index

  https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2014/05/12/better-life-index/

  Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on May 12, 2014  2014 Better Life Index released by OECD This annual survey of OECD countries seek to answer the question “What do people want from life?”  It has been in operation since 2011.

• Theodore Roosevelt Digital Library

  https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2011/12/02/theodore-roosevelt-digital-library/

  Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on December 2, 2011 http://www.theodorerooseveltcenter.org/ Free access to a national collection about the life and career of the former American president. It has a timeline of key events.

• Bloomberg: Studying Equity Volume Patterns for Clues on Price Direction

  https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2013/07/22/bloomberg-studying-equity-volume-patterns-for-clues-on-price-direction/

  Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on July 22, 2013 Global equity markets rallied this month after a contraction in June. Trading volume can indicate whether these price movements will hold.

• Opendata for Africa

  https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2013/07/26/opendata-for-africa/

  Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on July 26, 2013 Great free open data portal just launched by the African Development Bank. Covers over 50 nations providing recent data.

• Humanitarian crises app

  https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2013/04/26/humanitarian-crises-app/

  Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on April 26, 2013 New United Nations Office for Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA) Humanitarian Kiosk iOS app  A new application for geting the latest news direct from the UN about...

• Social Science Bites

  https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2012/05/04/social-science-bites/

  Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on May 4, 2012 Podcasts of interviews with leading social scientists on different aspects of the social world.  Published by Sage.  http://www.socialsciencebites.

• CITI for Cities.

  https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2012/03/23/citi-for-cities/

  Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on March 23, 2012 Major project of CITIbank which aims to help revitalise the infrastructure and economic development of modern cities worldwide.

• The Universal Human Rights Index

  https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2012/04/27/the-universal-human-rights-index/

  Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on April 27, 2012 http://uhri.ohchr.org/ Quickly trace recommendations relating to individual countries from the leading intergovernmental organisations.

• World Development Indicators 2012

  https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2012/05/04/world-development-indicators-2012/

  Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on May 4, 2012 Now available from the World Bank: http://data.worldbank.

• Press Freedom

  https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2013/02/08/press-freedom/

  Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on February 8, 2013 The Press Freedom Index 2013 http://en.rsf.org/press-freedom-index-2013,1054.html launched by Reporters Without Frontiers.