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Atlas of Mortality and Economic Losses from Weather, Climate and Water Extremes (1970 – 2019)
https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2021/09/14/atlas-of-mortality-and-economic-losses-from-weather-climate-and-water-extremes-1970-2019/
Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on September 14, 2021 WMO Atlas of Mortality and Economic Losses from Weather, Climate and Water Extremes (1970 – 2019 ) A rich source of data published recently by the World Meteorological...
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Global registry of oil and gas reserves
https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2022/09/30/global-registry-of-oil-and-gas-reserves/
Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on September 30, 2022 Global registry of oil and gas reserves , provides access in one place to production and emissions with data for more than 50,000 fields.
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Transparent: Inclusivity projects
https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2021/10/25/transparent-inclusivity-projects/
Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on October 25, 2021 Transparent: Creating Organisations Inclusive of Black Women in Finance, Professional Services and Big Technology.
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Bloomberg: WAAC
https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2013/05/09/bloomberg-waac/
Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on May 9, 2013 One of the most popular Bloomberg functions in corporate evaluation and investment banking is WACC – Weighted Average Cost of Capital.
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Webcultures archive launched
https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2017/06/23/webcultures-archive-launched/
Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on June 23, 2017 The project is part of the American Folklife Center, established by Congress to document traditional cultural forms and practices.
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United Nations disability statistics
https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2018/07/31/united-nations-disability-statistics/
Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on July 31, 2018 A new section of the UN main website now provides free access to data which it has collected since 1988. Sources are national level surveys, censuses and reports.
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Race and Diversity in UK Academia
https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2014/04/11/race-and-diversity-in-uk-academia/
Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on April 11, 2014 Race and Diversity in UK Academia An analysis by the Conversation shows worrying under representation of black and Asian ethnic groups in UK universities both as students...
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GDPR explained
https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2018/06/01/gdpr-explained/
Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on June 1, 2018 The EU has launched a general information portal for the public.
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Digital Incivility
https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2020/03/06/digital-incivility/
Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on March 6, 2020 The Microsoft Digital Civility Index (DCI) Microsoft has been measuring online behaviour and has found a worrying increase of bad behaviour and digital incivility over the last 4 years.
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Presidential inaugurations
https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2021/01/25/presidential-inaugurations/
Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on January 25, 2021 US senate has a list of dates off all ceremonies. Many examples have links to digitised images of official photographs or paintings plus ephemera such as tickets. U.S.