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• Longer lives

  https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2013/06/21/longer-lives/

  Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on June 21, 2013 The UK government has launched a new public health site to provide citizens with easily accessible data about premature death and mortality rates: http://longerlives.phe.org.

• Innovative use of social media in the Pakistan elections

  https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2013/05/17/innovative-use-of-social-media-in-the-pakistan-elections/

  Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on May 17, 2013 The Election commission worked with a site called Jaag Pakistan website which aimed to encourage reporting of electoral fraud and violence. This  used crowd sourced technology.

• Internet Censorship

  https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2013/10/07/internet-censorship/

  Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on October 7, 2013 Blocked on Weibo Site maintained by Jason Ng Google Policy Fellow at the University of Toronto’s  Citizen Lab  and author of  Blocked on Weibo , discusses his work...

• 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.

• Bloomberg: Credit Default Swaps

  https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2013/04/26/bloomberg-credit-default-swaps/

  Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on April 26, 2013 Since the European Union ban on naked sovereign CDS in November, the volume of sovereign CDS trades has plummeted while the volume on financials CDS has increased, according to DTCC data.

• Spectator Archive

  https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2013/07/15/spectator-archive/

  Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on July 15, 2013 Still in beta format: http://archive.spectator.co.uk/   Search free of charge the full text digital version of this weekly, right-wing magazine from July 1828 to December 2008.

• Media Use in the Middle East

  https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2013/07/26/media-use-in-the-middle-east/

  Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on July 26, 2013 …from Northwestern University in Qatar http://menamediasurvey.northwestern.edu/   Major 8 nation survey on media use.

• Bloomberg: Facebook Earnings Estimates

  https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2013/07/29/bloomberg-facebook-earnings-estimates/

  Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on July 29, 2013 Facebook reported their earnings on 24 July and analysts’ forecasts diverge due to their outlook for future mobile advertising revenue growth.

• Bloomberg: news and market moves

  https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2013/08/16/bloomberg-news-and-market-moves/

  Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on August 16, 2013 Carl Icahn (@Carl_C_Icahn) used Twitter to announce he had amassed a “large” position in Apple yesterday (14th Aug).

• Bloomberg: Prudential’s dividends

  https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2013/08/21/bloomberg-prudentials-dividends/

  Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on August 21, 2013 Prudential PLC, the U.K.’s second biggest insurer by market share, reported rising Asia sales and an 18 percent increase in first-half Asia operating earnings.