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  • Who runs Britain?

    Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on September 1, 2014 Who runs Britain 2014 T he second annual report from Counting Women which examines women’s participation in public life in the UK.

  • World Survey on the Role of Women in Development

    Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on November 3, 2014 This report is published every 5 years by UN Secretary-General. The 2014 issue focuses on themes relating to gender and sustainable development.

  • World ranking of prosperity

    Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on November 17, 2014 Legatum Prosperity Index  is an annual ranking of 142 countries.

  • Where is the best place to be a working woman?

    Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on March 13, 2015 To mark International Women’s day the Economist created a ‘glass-ceiling index’ which uses OECD data to rank factors including gender pay gaps and labour force participation.

  • New frontier database

    Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on January 24, 2011 Columbia Journalism review has launched a new database which aims to index and provide information about digital news outlets in the USA.

  • Liberation Technology

    Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on February 10, 2011 A research programme based at Stanford University which is exploring how information technology can be used to defend human rights, improve governance, empower the poor, promote...

  • ICON – International Coalition on Newspapers

    Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on May 10, 2011 http://icon.crl.edu/about.htm A consortium of member libraries (mainly USA based who are seeking to preserve and improved access to newspapers worldwide).

  • Mexico Turns to Social Media for Information and Survival

    Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on September 30, 2011 Mexicans are using social media sites such as twitter and face book to exchange information about violence, areas to avoid. Key examples are Wikinarco – https://www.wikinarco.

  • What does class mean today?

    Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on September 30, 2011 http://www.esds.ac.uk/news/newsdetail.

  • EU Screen

    Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on October 7, 2011 http://www.euscreen.eu/beta/index.html This beta test site aims to offer a single point of access to over 30,000 items of programme content and complementary contextual information.

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