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World Economic Forum launch Information Technology website
https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2011/05/10/world-economic-forum-launch-information-technology-dashboard-website/
Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on May 10, 2011 The World Economic Forum has launched an information technology website which enables users to view charts by country of internet users, network infrastructure, and mobile phone...
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Database of Research on International Education
https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2012/05/25/database-of-research-on-international-education/
Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on May 25, 2012 http://www.idp.com/about-idp/research-database/quick-search.
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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.
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Bloomberg: Short positions
https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2013/09/27/bloomberg-short-positions/
Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on September 27, 2013 WH Smith Plc’s share price has soared about 30 percent this year, and Barclays Plc expects more good news for the U.K. newsagent at its full-year results on Oct. 10.
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Elections
https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2014/05/27/1633/
Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on May 27, 2014 Those interested in elections might like the: Manifesto Research Group/Comparative Manifestos Project (MRG/CMP) Database a quantitative database maintained by...
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Homosexuality – is it still considered a disease?
https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2015/05/26/homosexuality-is-it-still-considered-a-disease/
Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on May 26, 2015 Controversy continues concerning the WHO stance towards homosexuality.
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Online Labour Index
https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2016/09/30/online-labour-index/
Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on September 30, 2016 A u seful tool which provides free data on jobs advertised online via websites and platforms in different countries and different occupations, quickly enabling researchers to track...
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Documenting Hate
https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2017/05/08/documenting-hate/
Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on May 8, 2017 A recent new project supported by Propublica, US media and human rights organisations including University of Miami School of Communication, CUNY Graduate School of Journalism, Human...
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Irish Adverts Archive
https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2017/05/12/irish-adverts-archive/
Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on May 12, 2017 Free access to this marvellous resource for social historians.
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Karl Marx 200
https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2018/05/04/karl-marx-200/
Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on May 4, 2018 The British Library has a digital copy of parts of the original Communist Manifesto – only 26 are believed to have survived worldwide! It also provides background information on its...