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Greek television archive launches. The ERT Poulidis and Sarrikostas archives are available online for anyone who wishes to visit the website, recording the highlights of modern Greek history. They include Greek shows, documentaries, reportages, invaluable sound files from the radio broadcast archive as well as photographs . Other major European TV archives can be located […]
Freedom in the World report 2014
Freedom in the World report 2014 Just issued by Freedom House see the rankings for civil liberties in nations worldwide. The report also has a useful graphic map of freedoms. Other useful country rankings which examines civil liberties include the US Department of State reports country reports on human rights practices and the International Religious Freedom […]
International Political Science Association conference papers
International Political Science Association conference papers. 2012 now available from the paper room of the IPSA website which also holds a wide range of papers from conferences dating from 2006 onwards. Search by theme or title. Key topics for 2012 included gender, religion and identity, However there is also extensive coverage of political parties, elections, […]
Company Data: 2 sites
Bank for the Accounts of Companies Harmonized (BACH) database has been upgraded. BACH is managed by the European Committee of Central Balance-Sheet Data Offices. It is a database of aggregated and relatively harmonized accounting data of non-financial incorporated enterprises of 9 European countries. The countries covered are Austria, Belgium, Czech Republic, France, Germany, Italy, Poland, […]
Economic and Social Commission for Asia and the Pacific
ESCAP digital publications Free access to its flagship publication Economic and Social Survey of Asia and the Pacific starting with the first edition published in 1948 and continuing until the present day. It contains articles and surveys on regional economics. There are particularly good tables of statistics and the website’s link can also be found […]
Global Risks 2014
Global Risks 2014 Released by World Economic Forum. Analyses 31 global risks. The 2014 edition includes special in-depth investigations into youth unemployment, digital disintegration and geopolitical risks.
European Sources Online
European Sources Online based at the University of Cardiff EDC is available at http://www.europeansources.info/search.jsp Key features are the information guides to EU institutions, policies and nations. It also indexes newspaper and journals articles relating to Europe related affairs and official EU publications so can easily be used for literature searching. The General Secretariat of the […]
Big data
Accessing and Using Big Data to Advance Social Science Knowledge A useful project to follow from the Oxford Internet Institute. Running 2012-14. It is investigating the potential uses and good practices in the use of big statistical data by social scientists. It has a blog which highlights and reports on current events. There are also some […]
World Bank’s Open Budgets portal
World Bank’s Open Budgets portal aims to provide a one-stop shop to locate national and sub-national regional budget economic data from about 40 nations involved in the BOOST project. It also aims to increase transparency and highlight good practice. See this launch presentation. Most are developing nations they include: Armenia Minas Gerais (Brazil) Peru Seychelles […]
UNESCO open-access repository
Now officially launched, the url for the UNESCO open access repository is: http://en.unesco.org/open-access/ Some good examples of key UNESCO titles which you might find relevant are the Education or ALL report series which tracks progress towards education access and literacy worldwide.
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