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US election sites
https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2012/02/13/us-election-sites/
Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on February 13, 2012 Pew Forum on Religion and Public life now has a site with news and comment on the role of religion in the 2012 presidential election: http://projects.pewforum.
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UN Document Digitisation Project
https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2012/03/02/un-document-digitisation-project/
Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on March 2, 2012 The UN has created a web page http://www.un.org/depts/dhl/deplib/digitization_program.htm where you can find out about the progress of its document digitisation programme.
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British Library releases free sports oral history collection
https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2012/07/26/british-library-release-free-sports-oral-history-collection/
Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on July 26, 2012 http://sounds.bl.uk/Oral-history/Sport%20 Free access to interviews and recordings of famous British athletes.
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Oral History of the Runnymede Trust 1968-1988
https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2012/03/23/oral-history-of-the-runnymede-trust-1968-1988/
Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on March 23, 2012 Runnymede is the UK’s leading independent race equality think tank.
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Free data journalism handbook
https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2012/05/04/free-data-journalism-handbook/
Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on May 4, 2012 Released by European Journalism Centre: http://datajournalismhandbook.
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Social Science Bites
https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2012/05/04/social-science-bites/
Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on May 4, 2012 Podcasts of interviews with leading social scientists on different aspects of the social world. Published by Sage. http://www.socialsciencebites.
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Crowd Behaviour Network
https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2012/07/26/crowd-behaviour-network/
Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on July 26, 2012 http://www.crowdbehaviournetwork.org/ Recently launched international forum for academic research on crowd behaviour, management and safety.
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Happiness
https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2014/10/15/happiness/
Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on October 15, 2014 Free access to this book from the OECD which provides data on global wellbeing since 1820. Factors covered include political representation, health and gender equality.
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The EU’s most digitally advanced nations
https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2015/03/09/the-eus-most-digitally-advanced-nations/
Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on March 9, 2015 Denmark is the most digitally advanced nation According to the new Digital Society and Economy Index from the European Commission which measures progress in EU nations.
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Press freedom
https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2015/05/15/press-freedom-2/
Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on May 15, 2015 To mark World Press Freedom day, UNESCO adopted the Riga Declaration . This affirms the importance of free journalism for sustainable development.