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  • Window into China

    Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on February 1, 2013 A Carnegie Endowment for International Peace website. It is collecting pieces written in China by Chinese scholars and experts. The emphasis is on security and foreign policy.

  • Opengendertracking project

    Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on March 22, 2013 A project which aims to build software to track gender content in online news stories. The website provides an explanation of the project. This launch page http://opengendertracking.

  • BBC Genome

    Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on October 20, 2014 The BBC Genome Project contains the listings information which the BBC printed in Radio Times between 1923 and 2009.

  • Sub-Saharan Africa’s knowledge economy

    Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on January 26, 2015 Geonet is a new project from the Oxford Internet Institute.   It is mapping  ICT developments and analysing their potential for economic and social development.

  • Academy Awards

    Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on March 2, 2015 To mark the recent Oscars, here is some social science related research! Study the rhetoric (and find out which award winners cried) by consulting Who thanked Who a database of all...

  • Are millennial workers ‘lazy’ ‘digital addicts’?

    Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on March 2, 2015 These are some of the myths challenged by the  IBM global study of over 1,700 workers born between 1980-1993.

  • Conflict in the Philippines

    Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on March 30, 2015 The new Bangsamoro Conflict Monitoring System from Alert and the World Bank is collecting current and historic data on incidences of political violence in the region.

  • How do you access news?

    Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on May 1, 2015 39 out of 50 of the top US news sites now get more traffic from mobile devices than desktop computers.

  • Measuring rural poverty

    Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on April 29, 2014  Multidimensional Poverty Assessment Tool (MPAT)  The International Fund for Agricultural Development (IFAD) has just released this new tool which can be used to measure rural...

  • Poverty and Social Exclusion

    Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on July 2, 2014 Latest Report from Poverty and Social Exclusion Project The shocking findings on rising levels of poverty in the UK were presented at a conference in London this week.

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