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Missing Migrants Project
https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2023/07/28/missing-migrants-project/
Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on July 28, 2023 The Missing Migrants Project from the International Organization for Migration (IOM) documents reported cases of deaths or missing people in international migration since 2014.
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Hebrew manuscripts, Library of Congress
https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2023/09/01/hebrew-manuscripts-library-of-congress/
Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on September 1, 2023 Hebraic Manuscripts from the Library of Congress Over 230 full text Hebrew manuscripts have now been made available online.
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Equality in Higher Education report
https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2017/11/13/equality-in-higher-education-report/
Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on November 13, 2017 Equality in higher education: statistical report 2017 from the Equality Challenge Unit The website of this organisation also has an excellent Athena Swan database of case studies on...
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More data portals
https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2015/12/01/more-data-portals/
Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on December 1, 2015 O pen Data Inception has mapped over 1600 open data portals around the world. Hover over the maps to get statistics on different nations.
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Rainbow Europe 2022
https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2022/05/20/rainbow-europe-2022/
Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on May 20, 2022 The Rainbow Map and Index produced by ILGA-Europe’s ranks 49 European countries on their legal and policy practices for LGBTI people.
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Conflict Severity Index
https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2023/01/27/conflict-severity-index/
Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on January 27, 2023 ACLED is launching a new Conflict Severity Index. This tool will enable researches to compare the extent and severity of conflicts worldwide.
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Global State of Freedom of Information is ‘worrying’…
https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2016/05/03/global-state-of-freedom-of-information-is-worrying/
Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on May 3, 2016 …according to the annual Open Data Barometer from the World Wide Web Foundation. It says that only 50% of the 92 included countries have ‘reasonably strong’ laws.
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Vacant properties
https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2017/08/09/vacant-properties/
Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on August 9, 2017 Who owns property and leaves it empty? Recently the Grenfell tower tragedy has exposed the scandal of unoccupied foreign owner property in the UK.
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Critical race theory
https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2022/08/16/critical-race-theory/
Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on August 16, 2022 UCLA Law school project tracking attacks on the teaching of critical race theory in the USA. Critical race theory seeks to expose systematic racism and racist cultures.
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What the world thinks about work
https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2023/09/18/what-the-world-thinks-about-work/
Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on September 18, 2023 A news item from Kings College London, based on the report What the world thinks about work, ranks the UK low for the importance the population places on work.