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World Revenue Longitudinal Database (WoRLD)
https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2025/01/13/world-revenue-longitudinal-database-world/
Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on January 13, 2025 This IMF database tracks government revenue trends in 193 countries since the early 1990s.
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Press Freedom
https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2013/02/08/press-freedom/
Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on February 8, 2013 The Press Freedom Index 2013 http://en.rsf.org/press-freedom-index-2013,1054.html launched by Reporters Without Frontiers.
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Opengendertracking project
https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2013/03/22/opengendertracking-project/
Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on March 22, 2013 A project which aims to build software to track gender content in online news stories. The website provides an explanation of the project. This launch page http://opengendertracking.
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Trade monitoring database
https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2013/05/17/trade-monitoring-database/
Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on May 17, 2013 The trade monitoring database This new official WTO resource provides detailed information on trade measures implemented by WTO members and observers since October 2008.
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Bloomberg: Skew analysis
https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2013/06/12/bloomberg-skew-analysis/
Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on June 12, 2013 Smithfield Foods Inc. stock jumped more than 28 percent on May 29 following a $34-a-share cash offer from Shuanghui International Holdings Ltd.
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Female FTSE report 2013
https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2013/04/19/female-ftse-report-2013/
Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on April 19, 2013 Acces the latest annual review of the number of women board members at the UK’s leading FTSE companies. From the Cranfield University website.
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Humanitarian crises app
https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2013/04/26/humanitarian-crises-app/
Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on April 26, 2013 New United Nations Office for Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA) Humanitarian Kiosk iOS app A new application for geting the latest news direct from the UN about...
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Bitcoin ‘offers opportunities to charities’
https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2015/05/08/bitcoin-offers-opportunities-to-charities/
Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on May 8, 2015 According to the latest report from the Charities Aid Foundation online currencies such as Bitcoin could enable charities to cut currency transfer costs and encourage transparency.
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Wikipedia bans the Daily Mail as an ‘unreliable source’
https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2017/02/17/wikipedia-bans-the-daily-mail-as-an-unreliable-source/
Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on February 17, 2017 See the discussion from the Wikipedia reliable sources noticeboard There is also some interesting discussion by the Nieman Lab Also see this recent article on search strategies in...
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Oil and Gas Transformation Map
https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2020/09/14/oil-and-gas-transformation-map/
Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on September 14, 2020 A new interactive tool created by the Center on Global Energy Policy at Columbia University/SIPA and World Economic Forum to track the changes occurring in these energy...