GENERAL SOCIAL SCIENCES ON THE WEB
ASSOCIATIONS/ORGANIZATIONS
- International
Association for Social Science Information Service & Technology (IASSIST)
- Home page of this organization dealing with issues and concerns of
data librarians, data archivists, data producers, and data users.
- Social Science History
Association
- Home page of the SSHA (Social Science History Association), an
organization for historians influenced by social science methods and
theory and for social scientists working with historical materials.
- Social Science Research Council
- Home page of this independent, nongovernmental, not-for-profit, international
association devoted to the advancement of interdisciplinary research in the social sciences.
DATA ARCHIVES/STATISTICS/SURVEYS
- CASS
- CASS (Centre for Applied Social
Surveys), an ESRC (Economic & Social Research Council) Resource
Centre run jointly by SCPR (Social & Community Planning Research)
and the University of Southampton with the University of Surrey.
Offers a survey Question Bank for use by social scientists and
social researchers as well as links to relevant sites.
- CESSDA
- Home page of CESSDA (Council of European Social Science Data Archives).
Includes access to catalogs of member organizations and a clickable map of
Social Science Data Archives all over the world.
- General Social Survey Resources
- Downloadable and searchable General Social Survey resources developed at Queens College.
- Geospatial and Statistical Data Center
- From the University of Virginia.
- Howard W. Odum Institute for
Research in Social Science Louis Harris Data Archive
- Contains searchable database of questions from the Louis Harris polls.
- ICPSR
- ICPSR (Inter-university Consortium for Political and Social
Research). Information on the GSS (General Social Survey).
- Online
Survey Research/Public Opinion Centers
- Links to and ratings of academic survey sites in the United States.
Includes links to other centers and resources.
- PollingReport.com
- Produced by the magazine The Polling Report, this site offers a cross-section
of poll data.
- Qualidata
- Site for information on this Archival Resource Centre of ESRC
(Economic & Social Research Council) qualitative data.
- The Roper Center
for Public Opinion Research
- Offers detailed information on the Center's products and services.
Includes an online catalog of surveys.
- Social Science Data
Archives
- From the Australian National University.
- Social Science Data
Collection
- From the University of California, San Diego.
- Social
Statistics Briefing Room
- Federal social statistics including crime, demographic,
education, and health statistics.
- Survey
Research Center
- From Princeton University.
- Survey Research
Center
- From the University of Michigan's Institute for Social
Research.
- Yale Social Science
Statistical Laboratory
- Information about the Statlab and other social science
resources at Yale.
JOURNALS
- Journal of
Artificial Societies and Social Simulation (JASSS)
- Links to full-text of this quarterly, interdisciplinary journal
for the exploration and understanding
of social processes by means of computer simulation.
- Social Science Computer Review
- Home page of SSCORE (Social Science Computer Review), an interdisciplinary
peer-reviewed scholarly journal from Sage Publications.
OTHER RESOURCES
- Bill Trochim's
Center for Social Research Methods
- Trochim of Cornell University provides resources for those doing applied
social research and evaluation.
- Glossary
- Glossary of social science computing terms and social science
data terms.
- Human Relations
Area Files
- Home page of HRAF (Human Relations Area Files).
- IBSS
- Home page of IBSS (International Bibliography of the Social
Sciences) a producer of social science bibliographies.
- Online Dictionary of the Social Sciences
- Definitions of basic concepts and events with primarily Canadian
examples.
- Sociometrics Corporation
- Home page of the Sociometrics Corporation. Provides
information on their products and services including the Social
Sciences Electronic Data Library (SSEDL).
- Survey Research Resources
- Herb Abelson's list of links relating to survey research.
LOCATORS/DIRECTORIES/SEARCH SITES
- Data on the
Net
- Links to sites of numeric social science statistical data, data
catalogs, data libraries, social science gateways, etc. Provided by
University of California, San Diego.
- Demography & Population Studies
- Links to information in the field of demography. Provided by the Australian National University.
- PRAXIS
- Links to resources for social and economic development. Compiled by Professor Richard J. Estes of the University of Pennsylvania.
- QualPage
- Links to resources for qualitative researchers.
- Research Resources for the Social
Sciences
- Organized into 18 categories including general resources, reference materials, data
archives, and various social sciences disciplines.
- SOSIG
- SOSIG (Social Science Information Gateway). Extensive links to
social sciences resources worldwide.
- Social
Sciences Virtual Library
- From scholars participating in the WWW Virtual Library. Now maintained
by Gene Thursby at the University of Florida. Links to leading Internet information resources in social sciences.
- SRM-Site
- Links to information on research, methodology, and statistics
for the social and behavioral sciences. Developed by the SRM-Documentation Centre of Erasmus University Rotterdam.
- Yahoo
- Yahoo's Social Science Data Collections links.
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