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.
Full text publications from the United Nations Environment Programme
The UNEP Knowledge Repository Access full text publications from the redesigned United Nations Environment Programme website. These include publications, technical and assessment reports, guidelines, newsletters, journal articles. Annual reports are available from 2001 onwards. Flagship report the Global Environmental outlook from 2000 onwards. Areas covered include environmental management, natural disasters, climate change, environment law and […]
Factiva tutorials
Library tutorials on how to use Factiva (http://www2.le.ac.uk/library/find/databases/f/factiva) available. Finding newspaper articles: https://connect.le.ac.uk/newsfa Finding company data: https://connect.le.ac.uk/cdf/
UN Women constitutional database launched
http://constitutions.unwomen.org/ Use this great new resource to find out provisions relating to gender in constitutions worldwide. You can download the whole database or search by regions or types of provision.
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