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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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Coronavirus: Media coverage
https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2020/03/30/coronavirus-media-coverage/
Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on March 30, 2020 Media Cloud is monitoring global media coverage of the pandemic and has some interesting facts and figures on its website.
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UK Archives: Empire Windrush resources
https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2023/06/02/uk-archives-empire-windrush-resources/
Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on June 2, 2023 To mark the 75 th anniversary of the ship bringing Caribbean migrants to the UK the UK archives has released a 7-minute film about their ‘Windrush’ resources.
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Ken Weir
https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/business/author/khw11/
Censoring Academics works well for Publishers Posted by Ken Weir in School of Business Blog on June 18, 2014 Kenneth Weir, Lecturer in Accountancy at the School, examines the popularity of a controversial article which he, David Harvie, Geoff Lightfoot and Simon Lilley,...
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Is your press free?
https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2017/05/08/is-your-press-free/
Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on May 8, 2017 Check the 2017 ranking from Reporters without Borders. Since 2002 it has been rating level of freedom available to journalists in over 180 nations worldwide.
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LGBTI inclusion index
https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2019/05/03/lgbti-inclusion-index/
Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on May 3, 2019 United Nations Development Programme has just devised the first indicators on how to measure LGBTI inclusion.
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New issue of Museum and Society
https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2023/05/16/new-issue-of-museum-and-society/
Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on May 16, 2023 Museum and Society, one of our university’s open-access journals, has published a new issue.
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General News on the Internet Web Archive
https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2019/05/03/general-news-on-the-internet-web-archive/
Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on May 3, 2019 This new collection has been launched by the Library of Congress . Since June 2014 they have regularly been web archiving online only general news sites, mainly from USA.
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Gender bias in Chinese media
https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2022/03/09/gender-bias-in-chinese-media/
Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on March 9, 2022 Who makes the news in China? Men mainly.
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National Museum of African American History and Culture Collection of Charleston Slave Badges
https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2025/02/07/national-museum-of-african-american-history-and-culture-collection-of-charleston-slave-badges/
Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on February 7, 2025 T he collection includes 146 rare badges dating as far back as 1804.