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Library of Congress digitises more early Presidential Papers
https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2021/01/11/library-of-congress-digitises-more-early-presidential-papers/
Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on January 11, 2021 Recently added are: Papers of President Benjamin Harrison (1833-1901) Papers of President William Howard Taft (1857-1930) Papers of President Grover Cleveland (1837-1908) Papers...
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Access to new journal titles
https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2011/02/02/access-to-new-journal-titles/
Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on February 2, 2011 We now have access to: Fashion Theory: the journal of dress, body and culture (1997 – ) (which also includes access to Fashion Practice).
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Observatory of Algorithms with Social Impact
https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2020/03/23/observatory-of-algorithms-with-social-impact/
Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on March 23, 2020 A listing from the Eticas Foundation which is indexing algorithms used by search engines and organisations and classifying them by type location and impact.
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Global Voices Online
https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2011/10/17/global-voices-online/
Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on October 17, 2011 http://globalvoicesonline.org/ has many citizen journalism postings from around the world there is a special section for the Egyptian protests http://globalvoicesonline.
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Open Secrets.org
https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2011/11/22/open-secrets-org/
Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on November 22, 2011 http://www.opensecrets.org/overview/index.php From the Center for Responsive Politics. Includes data for the US 2012 presidential elections .
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CITI for Cities.
https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2012/03/23/citi-for-cities/
Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on March 23, 2012 Major project of CITIbank which aims to help revitalise the infrastructure and economic development of modern cities worldwide.
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Journal of Cultural Economy
https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2011/02/03/journal-of-cultural-economy/
Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on February 3, 2011 We now have access to the Journal of Cultural Economy from 2008 onwards. Find it on Leicester Elink.
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World Development Indicators 2012
https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2012/05/04/world-development-indicators-2012/
Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on May 4, 2012 Now available from the World Bank: http://data.worldbank.
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University students and mental health
https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2021/06/21/university-students-and-mental-health/
Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on June 21, 2021 UCAS has published a report, Starting the Conversation, which explores mental ill health in university applications.
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Bloomberg: effects of QE in fixed income markets
https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2013/06/07/bloomberg-effects-of-qe-in-fixed-income-markets/
Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on June 7, 2013 Quantitative easing has increased the level of liquidity in financial markets and helped drive down yields in government bond markets.