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How common is online harassment? According to a Pew Internet Project report 40% of Internet users in the USA have personally experienced online harassment, 73% have witnessed it happening to others.
Economic impact of Ebola
The economic impact of the 2014 Ebola epidemic with short and medium term estimates for West Africa from the World Bank. Also useful: WHO factsheets, situation updates and data Free access to Oxford University Press resources. Pubmed references to climnical articles.
UK Child Poverty
Where is child poverty the highest? Find out using the latest child poverty map of the UK from End Child Poverty Campaign Get more more facts from the Child Poverty Action Group
BBC Genome
The BBC Genome Project contains the listings information which the BBC printed in Radio Times between 1923 and 2009. You can search the site for BBC programmes, people, dates and Radio Times editions. TVTiP provides an equivalent for ITV – online access to the listings of the London Edition of the TVTimes from September 1955 […]
Oor Willy
Oor Willy, Your Willy, A’body’s Willy The National Library of Scotland has launched the Oor Wullie’s guide website for children. See how this presents Scottish identity and listen to the audio files.
Happiness
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. The OECD have been considering how happiness should be measured in their Better Life Index .
Bitcoin
What is bitcoin? Find out using this handy Harvard Business school working paper . Bitcoin.org -unofficial website managed by Bitcoin core developers Coinmetrics allows you to view detailed statistics Quandl also has free data Repec has economic papers
United States Election 2010 Web Archive
The United States Election 2010 Web Archive This new collection of over 1,2000 archived websites relates to the USA 2010 elections. Each one has a description and several snapshots of the site through out the campaign enabling the examination of issue development. The UK has its own national Web Archive with special collections for elections. […]
Parental monitoring of internet use
Children and Parents: Media Use and Attitudes Report 2014 The latest report from Ofcom presents findings on the use of new media by British children and the role of parents in monitoring Internet use. EU Kids Online has related reports from EU nations The literature database of the International Central Institute for Youth and Educational […]
Scottish independence
Scottish independence referendum collection Details about this project from the National Library of Scotland which will include a webarchive . Also this week a House of Commons Library briefing summarising the outcome.
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