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Open government
https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2014/12/22/open-government/
Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on December 22, 2014 How open is your government? The latest Global Open Data Index from the Open Knowledge Foundation ranks 97 nations according to the openness of their data on 10 themes: national...
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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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Nashriyah: digital Iranian historic newspapers
https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2016/02/05/nashriyah-digital-iranian-historic-newspapers/
Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on February 5, 2016 The University of Manchester now provides free access to a digital library of Iranian newspapers .
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Are emojis sexist?
https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2016/05/13/are-emojis-sexist/
Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on May 13, 2016 Certainly Google engineers think so as they recently submitted a proposal to Unicode: s ee Expanding Emoji Professions: Reducing Gender Inequality for 13 proposed designs to...
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Aid data
https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2016/04/25/aid-data/
Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on April 25, 2016 Financial tracking service United Nations UN Office for the Co-ordination of Humanitarian Affairs (UN OCHA).
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UK/EU renegotiation
https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2016/02/05/ukeu-renegotiation/
Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on February 5, 2016 Read the full text of David Cameron’s statement to parliament on the UK government website and the proposals sent by the European Council Parliament TV has a recording of the debate...
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Paris Agreement 2016
https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2016/05/03/paris-agreement-2016/
Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on May 3, 2016 The Paris Agreement is an agreement within the framework of the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC).
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Family Online Safety Grid Directory update
https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2016/06/03/family-online-safety-grid-directory-update/
Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on June 3, 2016 Global Resource & Information Directory (GRID ) was first launched in 2010 by the Family Online Safety Institute in partnership with UNICEF.
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Modern slavery
https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2017/08/11/modern-slavery/
Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on August 11, 2017 The commercial company Maplethrorpe have just released their 2017 modern slavery index . You can view a summary on their website.
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Passport Analysis for Marketing – Datagraphics
https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2017/11/23/3305/
Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on November 23, 2017 Passport https://www2.le.ac.