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• Does going to college pay?

  https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2020/03/16/does-going-to-college-pay/

  Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on March 16, 2020 Update from IFS on the impact of college graduation on earnings in the UK.

• Security Council Meetings 1946-2020

  https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2020/03/16/security-council-meetings-1946-2020/

  Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on March 16, 2020 Another resource for those interested in international relations:  A list of vetoes and decisions . It has been prepared and maintained by the Dag Hammarskjöld Library.

• Global Risks in the World 2017

  https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2017/01/13/global-risks-in-the-world-2017/

  Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on January 13, 2017 This week the World Economic Forum released its latest annual report on risk in 2017.   It focuses on five areas, economic, social, technological, geopolitical and environmental.

• Bullying

  https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2017/02/10/bullying/

  Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on February 10, 2017 Released recently the UNESCO Global status report on school violence and bullying .

• Wikipedia bans the Daily Mail as an ‘unreliable source’

  https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2017/02/17/wikipedia-bans-the-daily-mail-as-an-unreliable-source/

  Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on February 17, 2017 See the discussion from the Wikipedia reliable sources noticeboard There is also some interesting discussion by the Nieman Lab Also see this recent article on search strategies in...

• Bloomberg: Skew analysis

  https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2013/06/12/bloomberg-skew-analysis/

  Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on June 12, 2013 Smithfield Foods Inc. stock jumped more than 28 percent on May 29 following a $34-a-share cash offer from Shuanghui International Holdings Ltd.

• R-shief: tracking Arab public opinion

  https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2013/07/15/r-shief-tracking-arab-public-opinion/

  Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on July 15, 2013 The new website is currently under development. It aggregates data from social media – Facebook, Twitter etc. to track public opinion from the Arab world.

• World Peace Index 2017 launched

  https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2017/06/14/world-peace-index-2017-launched/

  Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on June 14, 2017 Find out which is the world’s most peaceful country using the latest annual index from Visions of Humanity. It also summaries worldwide and regional trends.

• Unshackling expression – A study on laws criminalising expression online in Asia

  https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2018/02/16/unshackling-expression-a-study-on-laws-criminalising-expression-online-in-asia/

  Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on February 16, 2018 Free access to this special issue from GISWatch. It focuses on conditions in six Asian states: Cambodia, India, Malaysia, Myanmar, Pakistan and Thailand.

• Number of fact-checking sites worldwide increasing rapidly

  https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2018/03/13/number-of-fact-checking-sites-worldwide-increasing-rapidly/

  Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on March 13, 2018 According to the latest annual report from the Duke Reporters Lab .  They found that in 2018 the number has increased by 31 percent.