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IMF revamps data portal
https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2025/05/02/imf-revamps-data-portal/
Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on May 2, 2025 The IMF’s new data portal provides streamlined access to international financial data it is easy to explore and has updated API capabilities.
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About
https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/about/
This is the blog of the Social Sciences Librarians at the University of Leicester. Your librarians are Andrew Dunn (Learning and Teaching) and William Farrell (Research). We hope to provide you with interesting and useful information on this blog.
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The Diversifying and Decolonising Economics (D-Econ) Database
https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2024/09/06/the-diversifying-and-decolonising-economics-d-econ-database/
Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on September 6, 2024 An online resource showcasing research of scholars from under-represented backgrounds taking non-mainstream approaches to economics.
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Booker Prize winner 2024
https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2024/11/14/booker-prize-winner-2024/
Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on November 14, 2024 Congratulations to Samantha Harvey on winning the Booker Prize with Orbital. Find it in the library Reading Lounge (Ground floor) at 823.92 HAR.
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Left Behind
https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2024/03/08/left-behind/
Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on March 8, 2024 From the USA’s National Deaf Life Museum this website explores the often-forgotten Deaf experience during the AIDS crisis. Includes images, oral histories and accounts.
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Womens history month map
https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2024/03/26/womens-history-month-map/
Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on March 26, 2024 There are new entries on the Women’s history month map for Bolivia, India and USA. https://padlet.
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Museums in Ukraine
https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2023/07/25/museums-in-ukraine/
Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on July 25, 2023 A special issue of Museum and Society has been published on the topic of museums in Ukraine https://journals.le.ac.uk/ojs1/index.
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Newsmuseum
https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2016/06/24/newsmuseum/
Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on June 24, 2016 Show’s today’s front pages from around the world . Also has an archive . A US bias.
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The Pill
https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2022/05/03/the-pill/
Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on May 3, 2022 New online exhibition from Europeana containing images taking from Europe’s major national libraries.
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Human Rights: TikTok
https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2021/06/21/human-rights-tiktok/
Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on June 21, 2021 The United Nations has launched a Human Rights TikTok account: h ttps://www.tiktok.