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• Bloomberg: a merger

  https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2013/08/28/bloomberg-a-merger/

  Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on August 28, 2013 The recently merged mining and commodity trading company Glencore Xstrata reported a $7.7billion write-down of assets previously owned by Xstrata.

• theHive

  https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2013/09/18/thehive/

  Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on September 18, 2013 World Bank’s  theHive This site has been in beta for a while but is developing well. Register for free to get the most benefits.

• Corruption

  https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2013/10/23/corruption/

  Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on October 23, 2013 Exporting corruption: Progress report 2013: assessing enforcement of the OECD Conventionon combating bribery Full text report from Transparency International V iew other earlier...

• Social surveys

  https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2013/11/08/social-surveys/

  Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on November 8, 2013 UK Data service variable and question bank. Contains a catalogue of questions asked by major British social surveys since the 1990s.  Use to trace relevant surveys by topic.

• Government at a glance

  https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2013/11/15/1434/

  Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on November 15, 2013 Government at a glance. The OECD publishes a report measuring government performance across the 34 member countries of the OECD.   They include service provision and delivery.

• Twitter and racism

  https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2014/02/14/twitter-and-racism/

  Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on February 14, 2014 Is Twitter full of racist abuse? Read the new report from Demos on anti-social media: http://www.demos.co.

• Congressional Record for the 1980s

  https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2016/12/12/congressional-record-for-the-1980s/

  Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on December 12, 2016 Now available online via GOV Info   the bound volumes from volume 127 (1981) to volume 147 (2001).

• Trump’s inauguration – protests

  https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2017/01/20/trumps-inauguration-protests/

  Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on January 20, 2017 See the website of the Womens March on London 2017 which has details on the global movement.

• How do the media create and spreads stories?

  https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2017/05/08/how-do-the-media-create-and-spreads-stories/

  Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on May 8, 2017 An interesting open-source site is M edia Cloud.   This is a joint project by the MIT Center for Civic Media and the Berkman Klein Center for Internet & Society at Harvard University.

• Freedom to Marry, Oral History Collection

  https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2017/05/26/freedom-to-marry-oral-history-collection/

  Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on May 26, 2017 Free access to this important collection from the University  of California Berkeley The Bancroft Library’s Oral History Center .