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European Union Open Data Portal
https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2015/06/09/european-union-open-data-portal/
Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on June 9, 2015 The EU Open Data Portal provides access to a range of data from EU institutions including Eurostat, the Joint Research Centre and the European Environment Agency.
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New 5-volume open-access study on Antisemitism
https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2021/11/22/new-5-volume-open-access-study-on-antisemitism/
Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on November 22, 2021 De Gruyter have just made free to download : An End to Antisemitism! the outcome of an international high-level conference that was held in Vienna in 2018 as a collaboration...
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Ukraine
https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2022/09/16/ukraine/
Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on September 16, 2022 The Ukraïnica platform has been created by the Ukrainian Research Institute, Harvard University.
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Dialect and Heritage project
https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2022/10/07/dialect-and-heritage-project/
Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on October 7, 2022 Dialect and Heritage project This project from the University of Leeds in partnership with local museums aims to update the original 1951 survey of dialects which surveyed mainly older...
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Entrepreneurs and Innovators: from the Middle Ages to the modern day
https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2022/11/16/entrepreneurs-and-innovators-from-the-middle-ages-to-the-modern-day/
Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on November 16, 2022 A teaching resource from Box of Broadcasts aimed at increasing the employability of students from a number of degrees, including management and History.
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The Mexico-US border
https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2022/11/16/the-mexico-us-border/
Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on November 16, 2022 South from the North: The Mexico-US border and beyond is a teaching resource from Box of Broadcasts which may be of interest to Media and Communications, Spanish and Latin American...
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The Autism-Ready Libraries Toolkit
https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2023/06/02/the-autism-ready-libraries-toolkit/
Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on June 2, 2023 The Autism-Ready Libraries Toolkit has been created by University of Washington iSchool to provide librarians with inclusive, research-based strategies to create inclusive environments...
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For South Asian Heritage Month
https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2023/07/28/for-south-asian-heritage-month/
Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on July 28, 2023 CrossAsia Portal The portal has been set up by the Specialised Information Service Asia (Fachinformationsdienst Asien) at Staatsbibliothek zu Berlin.
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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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What happens when gender quotas are introduced for academic hiring committees?
https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2019/01/18/what-happens-when-gender-quotas-are-introduced-for-academic-hiring-committees/
Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on January 18, 2019 Interesting working paper covering the situation in France which found that after gender quota in academic hiring committees were imposed in France in 2015 there was a negative impact...