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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...

• Academic Freedom Index launched

  https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2020/03/30/academic-freedom-index-launched/

  Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on March 30, 2020 The Global Public Policy Institute (GPPi) is an independent non-profit think tank based in Berlin.

• World Kindness day 13th November

  https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2020/11/16/world-kindness-day-13th-november/

  Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on November 16, 2020 To celebrate this, some special social sciences resources. The world giving index from CAF  measures giving to charity and willingness to help a stranger amongst individuals.

• Thesis whisperer

  https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2011/09/30/thesis-whisperer/

  Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on September 30, 2011 http://thethesiswhisperer.wordpress.com/ Great multi author blog designed to support research students writing their theses.

• WORLDbytes

  https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2011/10/07/worldbytes/

  Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on October 7, 2011 http://www.worldbytes.

• Citing datasets

  https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2011/11/11/citing-datasets/

  Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on November 11, 2011 http://www.dcc.ac.uk/news/new-dcc-guide-citing-datasets Download the 12 page guide which will help researchers cite datasets.

• ePractice.eu

  https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2012/02/17/epractice-eu/

  Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on February 17, 2012 http://www.epractice.

• United Nations Monthly Bulletin of Statistics

  https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2012/03/02/united-nations-monthly-bulletin-of-statistics/

  Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on March 2, 2012 2000 onwards free online: http://unstats.un.org/unsd/mbs/app/mbssearch2.

• New York Times Archive

  https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2012/05/24/new-york-times-archive/

  Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on May 24, 2012 We have electronic access to the full text of the New York Times for 1851-2008 and an index for 1851 to 1993 which enables searching on specific subject terms.

• Mapping English inequality

  https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2015/10/20/mapping-english-inequality/

  Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on October 20, 2015 The English Indices of deprivation examine and rank multiple deprivation in England.