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LGBT Hate crime under-reported
https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2015/06/29/lgbt-hate-crime-under-reported/
Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on June 29, 2015 88% of UK LGBT people have experience emotional or physical hate crime and only 14% have felt able to report the most recent crimes to the police.
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Suffragettes on File
https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2018/03/16/suffragettes-on-file/
Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on March 16, 2018 A new educational resource from the National Archives designed for teachers of Key stage 1,3,5 – Suffragettes on File .
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Wikipedia bans the Daily Mail as an ‘unreliable source’
https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2017/02/17/wikipedia-bans-the-daily-mail-as-an-unreliable-source/
Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on February 17, 2017 See the discussion from the Wikipedia reliable sources noticeboard There is also some interesting discussion by the Nieman Lab Also see this recent article on search strategies in...
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Oil and Gas Transformation Map
https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2020/09/14/oil-and-gas-transformation-map/
Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on September 14, 2020 A new interactive tool created by the Center on Global Energy Policy at Columbia University/SIPA and World Economic Forum to track the changes occurring in these energy...
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Opengendertracking project
https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2013/03/22/opengendertracking-project/
Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on March 22, 2013 A project which aims to build software to track gender content in online news stories. The website provides an explanation of the project. This launch page http://opengendertracking.
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Democracy is in Crisis
https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2018/01/26/democracy-is-in-crisis/
Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on January 26, 2018 According to the latest annual report from Freedom House on the state of civil and political liberties worldwide the situation is worsening.
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Global Competitiveness Report
https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2014/09/05/global-competitiveness-report/
Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on September 5, 2014 World Economic Forum: latest global competitiveness report released It assesses the competitiveness landscape of 148 economies.
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Arabic collections online
https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2014/11/17/arabic-collections-online/
Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on November 17, 2014 Free digital library which aims to provide full-text access to Arabic language books from the collections of American University of Beirut, Columbia University, Cornell...
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State of the World 2014/15: Amnesty International
https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2015/03/23/state-of-the-world-201415-amnesty-international/
Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on March 23, 2015 Amnesty International’s annual review of human rights includes overview essays and country surveys covering freedom, rights, discrimination and abuses.
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Comparing politicians
https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2016/08/05/comparing-politicians/
Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on August 5, 2016 With the ongoing Labour Party contest you might want to compare politicians.