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• Measuring rural poverty

  https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2014/04/29/measuring-rural-poverty/

  Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on April 29, 2014  Multidimensional Poverty Assessment Tool (MPAT)  The International Fund for Agricultural Development (IFAD) has just released this new tool which can be used to measure rural...

• Better Life Index

  https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2014/05/12/better-life-index/

  Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on May 12, 2014  2014 Better Life Index released by OECD This annual survey of OECD countries seek to answer the question “What do people want from life?”  It has been in operation since 2011.

• Twitter and government bodies

  https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2014/06/19/twitter-and-government-bodies/

  Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on June 19, 2014 CIA launch Twitter account.   Their first post was ‘we can neither confirm or deny that this is our first tweet.

• Live crime tracker, USA

  https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2024/06/14/live-crime-tracker-usa/

  Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on June 14, 2024 From the University of Chicago’s Center on Public Safety and Justice  the Live Crime Tracker offers in-depth information on crime, violence and victimization in cities across the...

• Vogue Digital Archive

  https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2025/02/07/vogue-digital-archive/

  Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on February 7, 2025 In collaboration with Google Arts & Culture the Vogue Digital Archive will contain over 15,000 images from 30 years of Vogue.

• Historical Newspaper Archives

  https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2015/10/14/historical-newspaper-archives/

  Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on October 14, 2015 The University has recently acquired some historical newspaper archives amongst which are the Daily Mail 1896-2004, the Independent 1986-2012 and Punch 1841-1992.

• How to end the ‘UK’s role as a safe haven for corrupt individuals, their allies and assets’

  https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2016/04/08/how-to-end-the-uks-role-as-a-safe-haven-for-corrupt-individuals-their-allies-and-assets/

  Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on April 8, 2016 A new publication from Transparency International which explores the rol e of the UK’s Overseas Territories and Crown Dependencies and complicity in the Panama Papers affair.

• Health Databases from WHO

  https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2013/09/27/health-databases-from-who/

  Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on September 27, 2013 WHO Europe new statistical database- HlthRes-DB Contains nearly 200 indicators on human and technical resources for health covering 53 states from WHO Europe.

• Bloomberg: US Government shutdown

  https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2013/10/02/bloomberg-us-government-shutdown/

  Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on October 2, 2013 A U.S. government shutdown affects everyone to some degree.  Companies with big federal contracts have a special reason to worry.

• Bloomberg: Twitter’s IPO

  https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2013/10/15/bloomberg-twitters-ipo/

  Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on October 15, 2013 Twitter Inc. filed for an initial public offering with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission on Sept. 12. Use Bloomberg’s functions to analyze IPOs in the communications sector.