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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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Helen Ward
https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/specialcollections/author/hjw24/
Library Assistant Archives and Special Collections
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University of Leicester archives
https://le.ac.uk/library/special-collections/explore/university-archives
History of the University of Leicester and the university archives collection, how to explore, use, search and access the archives.
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Digital Data Gender Divide
https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2018/11/30/digital-data-gender-divide/
Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on November 30, 2018 Today worldwide 327 million fewer women than men have a smartphone and can access the mobile Internet. This report from the OECD considers what can be done.
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Pandemic Through the Lens of Google Searches
https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2020/12/18/pandemic-through-the-lens-of-google-searches/
Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on December 18, 2020 Evolution of the Pandemic Through the Lens of Google Searches New data from the World Bank .
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Digital Verification Corps
https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2021/01/19/digital-verification-corps/
Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on January 19, 2021 The Digital Verification Corps is a network of volunteers from 6 universities worldwide trained to verify social media videos and photos of potential human rights violations.
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What is the state of open data?
https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2017/06/16/what-is-the-state-of-open-data/
Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on June 16, 2017 The Open Knowledge Foundation has just published its open Data index.
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Who’s downloading pirated papers?
https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2016/05/06/whos-downloading-pirated-papers/
Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on May 6, 2016 Fascinating article from Science magazine which concludes that students and researchers from around the world are. It focuses upon downloads from SCI-HUB.
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Ben and Jerry’s flavours visualisation
https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2020/12/07/ben-and-jerrys-flavours-visualisation/
Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on December 7, 2020 Ben and Jerry ice cream flavours A site from data visualization experts Hesham Eissa & Lindsey Poulter which examines the range and popularity of ice cream...
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Government Defence Anti-corruption Index
https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2015/11/06/government-defence-anti-corruption-index/
Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on November 6, 2015 New from Transparency International an international ranking of governments worldwide whose defence policy expenditure is at high risk from corruption.