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• How do you access news?

  https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2015/05/01/how-do-you-access-news/

  Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on May 1, 2015 39 out of 50 of the top US news sites now get more traffic from mobile devices than desktop computers.

• Is your press free?

  https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2017/05/08/is-your-press-free/

  Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on May 8, 2017 Check the 2017 ranking from Reporters without Borders.   Since 2002 it has been rating level of freedom available to journalists in over 180 nations worldwide.

• General News on the Internet Web Archive

  https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2019/05/03/general-news-on-the-internet-web-archive/

  Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on May 3, 2019 This new collection has been launched by the Library of Congress .  Since June 2014 they have regularly been web archiving online only general news sites, mainly from USA.

• Historic election data

  https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2019/05/03/historic-election-data/

  Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on May 3, 2019 For historic elections data see the  Elections centre University of Plymouth It provides free access to  detailed handbooks of trends and results from 1991-2011 Historic election...

• Parliamentary Procedure handbook now free online UK

  https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2019/07/08/parliamentary-procedure-handbook-now-free-online-uk/

  Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on July 8, 2019 Now freely available via the UK parliament website: Erskine May’s treatise on the law, privileges, proceedings and usage of Parliament (25th edition, 2019).

• SDG Investor Platform

  https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2021/05/24/sdg-investor-platform/

  Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on May 24, 2021 On 14 April 2021, the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) and the  UN Secretary-General’s Global Investors for Sustainable Development (GISD) Alliance  launched the ‘SDG...

• 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.

• US Armed Forces: Overseas activity

  https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2013/05/17/us-armed-forces-overseas-activity/

  Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on May 17, 2013 Instances of Use of United States Armed Forces Abroad, 1798-2013 Useful reference report from Congressional research services, 23 pages long.

• Press freedom

  https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2015/05/15/press-freedom-2/

  Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on May 15, 2015 To mark World Press Freedom day, UNESCO adopted the Riga Declaration .  This affirms the importance of free journalism for sustainable development.

• UK Elections: voter’s regret

  https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2015/05/15/uk-elections-voters-regret/

  Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on May 15, 2015 Voter’s regret An interesting fact has been the surge in LibDem membership applications since the election .  The Conversation discusses the psychology of voter regret.