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Open Secrets.org
https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2011/11/22/open-secrets-org/
Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on November 22, 2011 http://www.opensecrets.org/overview/index.php From the Center for Responsive Politics. Includes data for the US 2012 presidential elections .
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Sight and Sound – electronically
https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2011/11/24/sight-and-sound-electronically/
Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on November 24, 2011 We now have access to Sight and Sound electronically from 01/01/2000 to date.
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India Real Time
https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2012/01/13/india-real-time/
Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on January 13, 2012 http://blogs.wsj.com/indiarealtime/ Useful readable blog with contributions from staff at the Wall Street Journal and Dow Jones newswire reporters.
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Growth Commission
https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2012/01/27/growth-commission/
Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on January 27, 2012 The London School of Economics has set up a Growth Commission which aims to provide contributions to the formulation and implementation of a long-term growth strategy the UK.
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Crowd Behaviour Network
https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2012/07/26/crowd-behaviour-network/
Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on July 26, 2012 http://www.crowdbehaviournetwork.org/ Recently launched international forum for academic research on crowd behaviour, management and safety.
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Global voices advocacy
https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2013/02/08/global-voices-advocacy/
Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on February 8, 2013 A report on the internet firewall in China. Surveys the 2013 battle between Chinese netizens and China’s Great Firewall: http://advocacy.globalvoicesonline.
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Bloomberg: Twitter’s IPO
https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2013/10/15/bloomberg-twitters-ipo/
Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on October 15, 2013 Twitter Inc. filed for an initial public offering with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission on Sept. 12. Use Bloomberg’s functions to analyze IPOs in the communications sector.
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Gender GEDI Index
https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2014/06/19/gender-gedi-index/
Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on June 19, 2014 2014 Gender-GEDI Index Executive Report The Global Entrepreneurship and Development Institute has produced a 30-country analysis of the conditions that foster high-potential female...
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Twitter and government bodies
https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2014/06/19/twitter-and-government-bodies/
Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on June 19, 2014 CIA launch Twitter account. Their first post was ‘we can neither confirm or deny that this is our first tweet.
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Humanitarian Data
https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2014/08/19/humanitarian-data/
Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on August 19, 2014 The UN Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA) has launched the Humanitarian Data Exchange to offer a single access point to statistics from the...