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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.
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Variations in Health Care
https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2015/09/25/variations-in-health-care/
Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on September 25, 2015 The NHS Variation in HealthCare atlas 2015 has just been published in collaboration with NHS England, Public Health England and NHS Right Care.
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Data centres for researchers
https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2016/01/06/data-centres-for-researchers/
Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on January 6, 2016 The Economic and Social Research Council are funding three data centres – the Consumer Data Research Centre https://www.cdrc.ac.
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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),...
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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.
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Quality of Life in the EU
https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2015/06/08/quality-of-life-in-the-eu/
Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on June 8, 2015 Eurostat has just released a new series of statistics which present a multi-dimensional measure of well-being, considering social as well as economic factors.
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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...
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New LGBT Archive
https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2016/01/22/new-lgbt-archive/
Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on January 22, 2016 U.S. Homophile Internationalism is a new online exhibit which can be found on the Outhistory.org website . The website states “This archive and exhibit explores U.S.
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The Blue Book
https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2024/04/26/the-blue-book/
Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on April 26, 2024 The Blue Book collection (1946-1994) is a great factual resource for tracing diplomatic missions to the UN.
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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.