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Google Transparency Report
https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2011/11/04/google-transparency-report/
Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on November 4, 2011 http://www.google.com/transparencyreport/governmentrequests/ The official Google website which provides 6-monthly reports on requests from governments to remove content.
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Citing datasets
https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2011/11/11/citing-datasets/
Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on November 11, 2011 http://www.dcc.ac.uk/news/new-dcc-guide-citing-datasets Download the 12 page guide which will help researchers cite datasets.
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World Service Archive
https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2011/06/17/world-service-archive/
Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on June 17, 2011 http://www.bbc.co.uk/podcasts/series/docarchive The BBC World Service archive of radio podcasts provides access to documentaries.
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Republic of South Sudan
https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2011/07/25/republic-of-south-sudan/
Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on July 25, 2011 The Republic of South Sudan has become the newest member of the United Nations. Read the official UN resolution at: http://www.un.org/ga/search/view_doc.asp?symbol=A/65/L.
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My Subject pages
https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2011/08/01/my-subject-pages/
Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on August 1, 2011 Subject Rooms are changing their name to My Subject pages. They go live officially on August 15th with the new website, but yours are available now if you would like to have a look.
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Gewerkschaftspresse
https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2011/08/16/gewerkschaftspresse/
Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on August 16, 2011 http://library.fes.de/gewerkschaftspresse/content/below/index.
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The revolutions were tweeted: Information Flows During the 2011 Tunisian and Egyptian Revolutions
https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2011/09/23/the-revolutions-were-tweeted-information-flows-during-the-2011-tunisian-and-egyptian-revolutions/
Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on September 23, 2011 http://www.danah.
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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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Truthy project
https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2010/11/12/truthy-project/
Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on November 12, 2010 Aims to analyse and create visual representations of how information is diffused on Twitter.
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New frontier database
https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2011/01/24/new-frontier-database/
Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on January 24, 2011 Columbia Journalism review has launched a new database which aims to index and provide information about digital news outlets in the USA.