Vlearn A free access site for business and management students. It has inspiring talks from business leaders covering leadership management topics including business ethics, change management includes videos and blog entries. Hosted at University of Central Lancashire
Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog
Migration Policy Centre
Publishes research on migration, asylum and mobility in Europe and in countries located along migration routes to Europe.
Lantern: Media History
Lantern : Media History A free, open access search platform for media history research. Directors include academics Eric Hoyt, Carl Hagenmaier, and Wendy Hagenmaier. A great resource for those interested in film, radio and early TV history. Includes fan accounts and the history of Hollywood and: Business Screen (1938-1973); Educational Screen (1922-1962); The Film Daily (1918-1948); […]
Governments and Facebook
Government requests for data from Facebook Which governments request information the most from Facebook? First report from Facebook covers 6 months from January-June 2013. Governments make requests to Facebook and many other companies seeking account information in official investigations. The vast majority of these requests relate to criminal cases, such as robberies or kidnappings. In […]
Primary Sources: speeches
Library of Congress Recorded Sound Collections. The National jukebox is its open access section. Which has classic recordings. For speeches, choose spoken word speeches. Presidential Speech Archive Maintained by the Scripps Library, Miller Center of Public Affairs, University of Virginia. Offers free access to transcripts, and for more recent examples, audio and videofiles of important […]
Credit Explained
http://creditexplained.org.uk/ A new independent website that’s intended to be a jargon-free guide to consumer credit of all types, including loans, credit cards, mortgages and overdrafts, and includes information on basic credit concepts such as credit ratings, debt and the like.
Bloomberg: a merger
The recently merged mining and commodity trading company Glencore Xstrata reported a $7.7billion write-down of assets previously owned by Xstrata. Data compiled by Bloomberg Industries show that the company actually beat estimates on a net-adjusted basis and provide details of the one-off charges. You will find the case study document under the function FFM on […]
Foreign Policy, Diplomacy and Twitter
Foreign Policy magazine Release their annual list of top 100 key people to follow on Twitter See the full list that includes politicians, diplomats and key political thinkers. Also useful on this AFP e-diplomacy hub Maintained by French news agency Agence France-Presse. Find out about twitter and foreign policy. Aims to offer a window on […]
New address for this blog
Hello all. The Social Sciences Librarians’ Blog has a new address https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/ RSS feed addresses have also changed. If you subscribe to an RSS feed from the blog, you will have to update your links.
Bloomberg: Prudential’s dividends
Prudential PLC, the U.K.’s second biggest insurer by market share, reported rising Asia sales and an 18 percent increase in first-half Asia operating earnings. The gains helped Prudential raise its dividend, and a further dividend hike is projected by Bloomberg Dividend Forecasts team. You will find the case study document under the function FFM on […]
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