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gesisDataSearch: a Data Discovery Index for the Social Sciences
https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2018/04/20/gesisdatasearch-a-data-discovery-index-for-the-social-sciences/
Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on April 20, 2018 Now in beta, a new tool which will enable researchers to quickly identify high quality social and economic datasets.
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International Debt Statistics
https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2014/03/07/international-debt-statistics/
Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on March 7, 2014 International Debt Statistics 2014 Just launched by the World Bank, this new publication replaces the previous Global Development Finance, Volume II (1997 to 2009) and the earlier World...
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Zero hour contracts
https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2014/05/06/zero-hour-contracts/
Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on May 6, 2014 The UK Office for National Statistics has just released some initial data on the number of individuals employed on zero hours contracts.
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Women and low pay
https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2014/08/22/women-and-low-pay/
Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on August 22, 2014 A number of reports have revealed a gender disparity in pay rates.
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World Press Freedom Day; 3rd May
https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2019/05/03/world-press-freedom-day-3rd-may/
Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on May 3, 2019 The UNESCO official website 2019 focuses on the role of the media in the fight against misinformation.
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Museum Data Service
https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2024/09/18/museum-data-service/
Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on September 18, 2024 Museum Data Service is a cross-sector catalogue which aims to provide access to over 100 million records from 1,750 UK museums.
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How well do we manage our financial lives?
https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2017/10/23/how-well-do-we-manage-our-financial-lives/
Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on October 23, 2017 Interesting findings on high levels of debt and vulnerability and lack of financial knowledge among the British adult population in the first Financial Lives Survey 2017 released by...
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Will people in the UK live shorter lives?
https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2018/10/03/will-people-in-the-uk-live-shorter-lives/
Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on October 3, 2018 This week the newspapers reported that life expectancy is falling or stalled in the UK for the first time since records began, but what are the facts on this? Here are some useful...
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Sites for Pride Month
https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2021/06/28/sites-for-pride-month/
Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on June 28, 2021 Europeana LGBT Plus now has a page of great historic LGBT resources from Europe’s national and libraries and museums.
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Homelessness
https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2016/01/29/homelessness/
Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on January 29, 2016 Councils struggling to cope with homeless people.