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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.

• LGBT Hate crime under-reported

  https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2015/06/29/lgbt-hate-crime-under-reported/

  Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on June 29, 2015 88% of UK LGBT people have experience emotional or physical hate crime and only 14% have felt able to report the most recent crimes to the police.

• 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...

• 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...

• True of false?

  https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2013/02/08/true-of-false/

  Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on February 8, 2013 The Washington Post has produced a checking program, Truth Teller, http://truthteller.washingtonpost.

• 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.

• Credit Explained

  https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2013/09/02/credit-explained/

  Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on September 2, 2013 http://creditexplained.org.

• Boots Archive timeline

  https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2017/06/16/boots-archive-timeline/

  Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on June 16, 2017 Chemist store Boots has just released a fascinating timeline of images about its company history which economic historians may find useful.

• Mukund Janardhanan

  https://le.ac.uk/people/mukund-janardhanan

  The academic profile of Dr Mukund Janardhanan, Lecturer, Director of Education at University of Leicester

• Micorobial genomes

  https://le.ac.uk/vgec/topics/microbial-sciences/microbial-genomes

  Genome is the word we use to describe all of an organism's DNA, including its chromosomes and any other pieces of DNA it may have acquired. The University of Leicester provides a range of resources for academic purposes.