YouGov this week revealed the 10 most Eurosceptic and EU friendly parts of the UK. Havering is most likely to vote out- along with Blackpool and Southend! For more in-depth academic analysis of who supports and opposes EU membership see this recent article by John Curtice, Senior Research Fellow at NatCen and Professor of Politics […]
Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog
3 open-access books about Social Media
How the World Changed Social Media: Download free from http://bit.ly/24AUbKH Social Media in an English Village: Download free from http://bit.ly/1nhPP9o Social Media in Southeast Turkey: Download free from http://bit.ly/1oOTIDJ
‘Privately educated continue to dominate the professions’ in the UK…
…according to the latest Sutton Trust report Leading People 2016. It quotes the figures that while only 7% of the UK population are privately educated 71% of barristers have been to private school, 51% of journalists and 50% of the cabinet. Full methodology and data are provided in the report. See earlier reports. The Social […]
Europe-wide data
The European Data portal has now passed from Beta to permanence. You can now use it to quickly find news and the latest open data from EU nations. It includes 13 browsable categories ranging from health to cities. There is also a data training companion. Also growing is the broader OpenAire website which now has […]
USA Primaries – Useful resources
What is a primary? find out with this handy guide to the US electoral system from Vote Smart. Apparently many Americans are also unclear! As a result, a crowdsourcing project to share information has been launched by the Annenberg Center on Communication, Leadership & Policy at the University of South California; Project on Presidential Primaries: […]
US Government publications new website
GPO Launches Beta of govinfo.gov. The site will eventually replace Federal Digital System (FDsys) in 2017. It can be used to access the latest Congressional Record and other documents from the American government including the ability to track bills. Read this article on how it is modelling itself on Google!
Chatham House ‘Best think tank in Western Europe’ 2015…
…according to the 2015 Global Go To Think Tank Index Report an annual ranking produced by The Think Tanks and Civil Societies Program (TTCSP) at the University of Pennsylvania. It includes global, regional and thematic rankings with details on the methodology use. All reports from 2008 onwards are also accessible on the website. Lists are […]
Digital Transgender Archive launched
The new Digital Transgender Archive (DTA) is based in Worcester, Massachusetts at the College of the Holy Cross. It is an international collaboration among more than twenty colleges, universities, nonprofit organizations, and private collections which is aiming to provide free access to key materials. The definition used on the website is ‘transgender as a practice […]
Changing face of journalism
The Independent newspaper will be ceasing printed publication. A useful article on the conversation blog by a journalist involved in its early years sets the demise in context. Other useful resources for finding information on newspaper circulation which enable the tracing of recent trends include: Materials from the Pew Research Center which trace the declining […]
New resource for European newspapers
Europeana Newspapers is a new resource that allows researchers to access digitised newspaper collections from 22 national libraries across Europe. Major titles like Le Figaro are included. The search engine aggregates over 18 million historic newspaper pages. 10 million newspaper pages are being converted to full text. It has been extensively reviewed by Bob Nicholson […]
Recent Comments