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Research Data Journal for the Humanities and Social Sciences
https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2015/11/04/research-data-journal-for-the-humanities-and-social-sciences/
Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on November 4, 2015 A new free open access journal from Brill and a number of research institutes based in the Netherlands seeks to highlight research based on data.
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Women on Boards
https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2015/11/04/women-on-boards-2/
Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on November 4, 2015 Latest 5 year progress summary from Lord Davies shows progress. Get the full data plus previous reports from the UK government website.
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Black Freedom Struggle in the United States.
https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2020/11/05/black-freedom-struggle-in-the-united-states/
Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on November 5, 2020 An open-access archive of primary sources covering the following six topics: Slavery and abolition Civil war and reconstruction Jim Crow segregation 1878-1932 New Deal and WWII Civil...
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Facebook launches Notify News App
https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2015/11/20/facebook-launches-notify-news-app/
Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on November 20, 2015 As a dedicated app for iOS, it’s designed to be a central hub for alerts from a variety of partners, including BuzzFeed, CNN, Washington Post, Vogue and the Weather Channel.
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Refugee use of mobile phones
https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2016/05/20/refugee-use-of-mobile-phones/
Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on May 20, 2016 T he Open University has released a research report on how refugees use smartphones. It was led by Prof. Marie Gillespie and was carried out in partnership with France Medias Monde.
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Where is the world’s happiest country?
https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2016/03/24/where-is-the-worlds-happiest-country/
Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on March 24, 2016 Find out in the 2016 update to the World Happiness report . It ranks 156 nations according to a number of detailed criteria which are explained in the methodology.
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The Social Welfare History Image Portal
https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2017/10/30/the-social-welfare-history-image-portal/
Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on October 30, 2017 This great site provides free access to a wealth of images drawn from the collections of VCU Libraries, Union Presbyterian Seminary Library, Beth Ahabah Museum & Archives,...
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Crimes against journalists
https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2015/11/06/crimes-against-journalists/
Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on November 6, 2015 November 2 nd was the international day to end impunity about crimes against journalists .
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Who gives to Higher Education institutions?
https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2016/05/03/who-gives-to-higher-education-institutions/
Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on May 3, 2016 Download the latest annual Ross- Cass survey of charitable giving to universities which is carried out by the by the Council for Advancement and Support of Education (CASE) in...
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Comics about social and human rights issues
https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2017/08/18/comics-about-social-and-human-rights-issues/
Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on August 18, 2017 Positive negatives: a n interesting example of comics being used to communicate key social issues.