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High Streets Recovery Tracker
https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2020/07/06/high-streets-recovery-tracker/
Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on July 6, 2020 High Streets Recovery Tracker Launched by the Centre for Cities to provide economic data on the recovery from the lock-down of Britain’s largest cities and towns.
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UNCTAD COVID-19 Response Portal
https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2021/05/17/unctad-covid-19-response-portal/
Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on May 17, 2021 United Nations Conference on trade and development has launched a new portal with data on the impact of Covid-19 on manufacturing, trade and foreign direct investment. It has 25 indicators.
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What does Boris owe?
https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2016/08/05/what-does-boris-owe/
Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on August 5, 2016 This site has been created by Remain activist Sarah Noble: Associated with Vote Leave Watch It seeks to hold Leave campaigners accountable.
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Netflix research
https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2018/05/25/netflix-research/
Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on May 25, 2018 Netflix have just launched their own official site where they will be posting white papers and articles on what they are researching. See the Netflix official blog for further details.
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Women are not represented in Local Government
https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2018/09/24/women-are-not-represented-in-local-government/
Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on September 24, 2018 According to the latest report issued by the Fawcett Society The proportion of female councillors is still only 34%.
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Foreign Aid Explorer (US)
https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2019/06/11/foreign-aid-explorer-us/
Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on June 11, 2019 USAID has developed a new tool which aims to increase aid transparency in relation to US historical foreign aid.
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Regional imbalances in research and development investment – NESTA
https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2020/06/04/regional-imbalances-in-research-and-development-investment-nesta/
Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on June 4, 2020 The latest report from Nesta, a foundation which focuses on innovation.
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Who’s downloading pirated papers?
https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2016/05/06/whos-downloading-pirated-papers/
Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on May 6, 2016 Fascinating article from Science magazine which concludes that students and researchers from around the world are. It focuses upon downloads from SCI-HUB.
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Ben and Jerry’s flavours visualisation
https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2020/12/07/ben-and-jerrys-flavours-visualisation/
Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on December 7, 2020 Ben and Jerry ice cream flavours A site from data visualization experts Hesham Eissa & Lindsey Poulter which examines the range and popularity of ice cream...
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Memory Lane
https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2021/03/10/memory-lane/
Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on March 10, 2021 Free access to an archive of millions of photos taken as far back as 1878. Some original black and white have been recoloured.