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World Development Indicators (WDI) 2016
https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2016/04/25/world-development-indicators-wdi-2016/
Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on April 25, 2016 Just released by the World Bank this major dataset which has over 800 indicators covering more than 150 economies.
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Refugee use of mobile phones
https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2016/05/20/refugee-use-of-mobile-phones/
Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on May 20, 2016 T he Open University has released a research report on how refugees use smartphones. It was led by Prof. Marie Gillespie and was carried out in partnership with France Medias Monde.
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How Facebook news presents different realities
https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2016/05/27/how-facebook-news-presents-different-realities/
Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on May 27, 2016 A new tool created by the Wall Street Journal Blue Feed Red Feed allows users to examine how different news sources cover political topics. See the Nieman reports.
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Pride of Place
https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2016/05/27/pride-of-place/
Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on May 27, 2016 A great project led by scholars at Leeds Beckett University with the support of English Heritage which is working to produce an interactive map relating to places in England which...
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Congressional Record from 1911-1921
https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2017/11/03/congressional-record-from-1911-1921/
Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on November 3, 2017 … now available on GPO’s govinfo.
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New course in the anthropology of social media
https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2015/11/18/new-course-in-the-anthropology-of-social-media/
Posted by William Farrell in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on November 18, 2015 UCL have launched a free online course in the anthropology of social media. It will start on the 29 February and is open to anyone with an “interest in social media and people.
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New resource for European newspapers
https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2016/02/18/new-resource-for-european-newspapers/
Posted by William Farrell in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on February 18, 2016 Europeana Newspapers is a new resource that allows researchers to access digitised newspaper collections from 22 national libraries across Europe.
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Re-presenting the People
https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2024/09/06/re-presenting-the-people/
Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on September 6, 2024 A practice based investigation into the hidden history of the Portsmouth Suffragists’ campaign for equal rights, explored through the lens of visual communication design.
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Budhan Stories
https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2024/10/28/budhan-stories/
Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on October 28, 2024 A brand new open-research collection from Dr Alice Tilche (University of Leicester School of Museum Studies) has been published on the Leicester Research Archive It is a collection of...
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Violation Tracker Global
https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2024/11/11/violation-tracker-global/
Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on November 11, 2024 A new website created by the U.S.