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European Data Portal
https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2015/12/01/european-data-portal/
Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on December 1, 2015 Launched this month, a new resource developed by the European Commission offering free access to over 240,000 datasets from 28 European Nations.
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Women’s pay
https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2016/03/11/womens-pay/
Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on March 11, 2016 A report published by the University and College Union on the discrepancy between men’s and women’s pay in the UK HE sector http://www.ucu.org.
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Aid data
https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2016/04/25/aid-data/
Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on April 25, 2016 Financial tracking service United Nations UN Office for the Co-ordination of Humanitarian Affairs (UN OCHA).
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Diversity in HE. Or not…
https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2016/04/25/diversity-in-he-or-not/
Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on April 25, 2016 Lies, damned lies and statistics on widening access to Russell Group universities Interesting article in the latest issue of Radical Statistic by Vikki Boliver which criticises the...
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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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Unfiltered News
https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2016/05/06/unfiltered-news/
Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on May 6, 2016 Launched by Jigsaw in April 2016, t his site seeks to expose those news stories which are being under-reported by the media in different areas of the world using Google Newsdata.
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Are emojis sexist?
https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2016/05/13/are-emojis-sexist/
Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on May 13, 2016 Certainly Google engineers think so as they recently submitted a proposal to Unicode: s ee Expanding Emoji Professions: Reducing Gender Inequality for 13 proposed designs to...
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Offshore leaks database
https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2016/05/13/offshore-leaks-database/
Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on May 13, 2016 A new enhanced website launched this week by the International Committee of Investigative Journalists which contains all the resources from the Panama Papers tax-avoidance scandal...
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Inclusive Growth Monitor
https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2016/05/20/inclusive-growth-monitor/
Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on May 20, 2016 New from the Joseph Rowntree Trust a tool for examining and measuring the relationship between poverty and growth .
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Online censorship on social media
https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2016/05/27/online-censorship-on-social-media/
Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on May 27, 2016 A first report from OnlineCensorship.org, a project of the Electronic Frontier Foundation and Visualizing Impact .