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Reporters Without Frontiers – Arab Revolt
https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2011/07/19/arab-revolt-reporters-without-frontiers/
Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on July 19, 2011 http://en.rsf.org/the-arab-revolt.html Reporters without Frontiers has created a special section on their website to cover the recent Arab uprisings.
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US elections and politics pages from Google
https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2012/01/06/us-elections-and-politics-pages-from-google-and-you-tube/
Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on January 6, 2012 http://google.com/elections/ed/us/results Useful for tracking progress in the 2012 presidential race! Includes the 2012 political calendar from pbs http://www.pbs.
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Enhanced access to data from International Telecommunications Union
https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2012/08/16/enhanced-access-to-data-from-itu-international-telecommunications-union/
Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on August 16, 2012 http://www.itu.int/ The ITU collects data on mobile phones, internet use and access worldwide. Its website offers some free statistics.
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EU Screen…
https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2012/09/03/eu-screen-2/
Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on September 3, 2012 …launches some great new themed collections. http://www.euscreen.eu/exhibitions.html This EU funded project aims to digitise clips and programmes from major collections in Europe.
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OECD Future of Business survey
https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2018/06/22/oecd-future-of-business-survey/
Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on June 22, 2018 Future of Business Survey is a source of information on small- and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs).
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Google public alerts
https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2013/03/08/google-public-alerts/
Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on March 8, 2013 http://www.google.org/crisisresponse/publicalerts/ Google is now advertising public service crisis and disaster alerts.
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US Census bureau historical voting publications
https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2012/03/02/us-census-bureau-historical-voting-publications/
Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on March 2, 2012 http://www.census.gov/hhes/www/socdemo/voting/publications/historical/index.html Statistical data on US national and presidential elections.
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US Presidential Elections in Cartoons
https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2012/04/04/us-presidential-elections-in-cartoons/
Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on April 4, 2012 Cartoons from the Cartoonist Group including 2012 editorial cartoons from top us newspapers http://www.theeditorialcartoons.com/subject/6219/The-2012+Election-Editorial-Cartoons.
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Study finds higher-earning men would take a pay cut to spend more time with partners
https://le.ac.uk/news/2015/september/study-finds-higher-earning-men-would-take-a-pay-cut-to-spend-more-time-with-partners
Most men in Europe want to spend fewer hours at work and more time with their families even though it would cut their income, a major study on employment published in the journal Sociology shows.
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Leicester celebrates British Science Week with top five innovations
https://le.ac.uk/news/2021/march/innovations
The University of Leicester is celebrating this year’s theme for British Science Week (5-14 March 2021), ‘Innovating for the Future’, by highlighting the top five innovations pioneered at the University.