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• The Magazine Rack

  https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2018/04/27/internet-archive-magazine-rack/

  Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on April 27, 2018 Worth revisiting. Free access via this great site to a downloadable collection of over 34,000 digitized magazines and other monthly publications.   They can be sorted by title or date.

• Women in developing countries 9% less likely to have a bank account

  https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2018/05/04/women-in-developing-countries-9-less-likely-to-have-a-bank-account/

  Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on May 4, 2018 Global Findex Database 2017: Measuring Financial Inclusion and the Fintech Revolution The Global Findex database is the world’s most comprehensive data set on how adults save, borrow, make...

• Personal data and elections

  https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2018/05/15/personal-data-and-elections/

  Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on May 15, 2018 The Influence Industry: The Global Business of Using Your Data in Elections.

• Syrian Archives Chemical weapons database

  https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2018/05/15/syrian-archives-chemical-weapons-database/

  Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on May 15, 2018 The Syrian Archive aims to support human rights investigators, advocates, media reporters and journalists in their efforts to document human rights violations in Syria.

• Global military spending is rising.

  https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2018/05/18/global-military-spending-is-rising/

  Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on May 18, 2018 According to the latest annual report from the Stockholm International Peace Research Institute ( SIPRI ).

• Gender policy

  https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2018/06/01/gender-policy/

  Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on June 1, 2018 Top 100 influential people for 2018 New from Apolitical : their list of the 100 most influential people in gender policy around the world.

• (Dis)Connected Infrastructures and Violence Against Women project

  https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2018/08/03/disconnected-infrastructures-and-violence-against-women-project/

  Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on August 3, 2018 British Academy funded project involving staff from Kings College London, LSE and Indian universities.

• Food security

  https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2018/09/24/food-security/

  Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on September 24, 2018 Numbers starving worldwide rising Shocking news from the latest Food Security and Nutrition in the World Report released by the UN’s Food and Agricultural Organization.

• Mapping Segregation: Google Maps and the Human Rights of Palestinians

  https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2018/10/05/mapping-segregation-google-maps-and-the-human-rights-of-palestinians/

  Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on October 5, 2018 Interesting report by 7amleh – Arab Center for Social Media Advancement which argues that the boundaries and names used on Google Maps favour the cause of the Israeli government in the...

• Does social media make you happy or unhappy?

  https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2019/03/20/does-social-media-make-you-happy-or-unhappy/

  Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on March 20, 2019 This week the All-Party Parliamentary Group on Social Media and Young People’s Mental Health and Wellbeing Inquiry: “ Managing the Impact of Social Media on Young People’s  Mental...