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Inspiring Women
https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2015/10/20/inspiring-women/
Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on October 20, 2015 Royal Holloway College launched the Inspiring Women campaign to salute and celebrate the achievements of women.
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New course in the anthropology of social media
https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2015/11/18/new-course-in-the-anthropology-of-social-media/
Posted by William Farrell in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on November 18, 2015 UCL have launched a free online course in the anthropology of social media. It will start on the 29 February and is open to anyone with an “interest in social media and people.
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New resource for European newspapers
https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2016/02/18/new-resource-for-european-newspapers/
Posted by William Farrell in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on February 18, 2016 Europeana Newspapers is a new resource that allows researchers to access digitised newspaper collections from 22 national libraries across Europe.
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Online censorship on social media
https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2016/05/27/online-censorship-on-social-media/
Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on May 27, 2016 A first report from OnlineCensorship.org, a project of the Electronic Frontier Foundation and Visualizing Impact .
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Business Multidimensional Poverty Index: Costa Rica
https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2017/09/04/business-multidimensional-poverty-index-costa-rica/
Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on September 4, 2017 Costa Rica launched the Business Multidimensional Poverty Index developed by the Positive Horizon Association with the technical support of the Oxford Poverty and Human Development...
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Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels original papers online
https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2015/08/21/karl-marx-and-friedrich-engels-original-papers-online/
Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on August 21, 2015 Free access to the archives from the website of the International Institute of Social History. The site has a detailed contents list. Items offered in German.
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Fuel poverty and cold homes
https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2015/11/06/fuel-poverty-and-cold-homes/
Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on November 6, 2015 Fuel Poverty and Cold homes is worse in Britain t han in other European nations according to a ranking by the Association for the Conservation of Energy .
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Are women under-represented in the news?
https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2015/12/01/are-women-under-represented-in-the-news/
Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on December 1, 2015 Yes according to the latest Global Media Monitoring Project report which found that they represented only 25% of those heard, read about or seen in the news 2015, the same...
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Is your bank under stress?
https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2015/12/04/is-your-bank-under-stress/
Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on December 4, 2015 Read the latest report from the Bank of England for 2015 – the tests ‘assess the resilience of UK banks and building societies to a deterioration in global economic conditions.
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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.