World-Wide Web Resources
Social Sciences

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  • Library & Information Science
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  • Mythology & Folklore
  • Political Science
  • Public Administration
  • Psychology
  • Social Work
  • Sociology
  • Sports Medicine
  • Telecommunication
  • U.S. Government
    Resources
  • Women's Studies
  • INFOMINE, "Comprehensive" Social Sciences & Humanities Internet Resource Collection.
  • Research Engines for the Social Sciences, from the Universal Codex for the Social Sciences.
  • Social Sciences Data Collection, University of California San Diego.
  • Social Sciences Information Gateway
  • Social Sciences Virtual Library
  • SocioSite, designed to get access to information and resources which are relevant for sociologists.

  • Annual Reviews of Social Sciences, from Annual Reviews. Accessible from campus computers and off-campus via the proxy server.

  • Archival Data Online Repository, the site contains 12 studies, including US riot and civil disorder data from 1961-1968, the slave movement during the 18th and 19th centuries and the Russian and French Bureaucracies of the 18th & 19th and 17th & 18th centuries respectively.

  • ACLU, American Civil Liberties Union. information about the full spectrum of civil liberties issues, including daily news clips, ACLU resources, organized links.

  • American Indian Studies Programs, from the University of Arizona.

  • American Council of Learned Societies, non-profit federation of 60 national learned societies in the humanities and social sciences. The purpose of the Council, as set forth in its constitution, is "the advancement of humanistic studies in all fields of learning in the humanities and social sciences and the maintenance and strengthening of relations among national societies devoted to such studies."

  • Ancient World Web

  • Annual Reviews of Social Sciences Accessible from campus computers and off-campus via the proxy server.

  • Bureau of Transportation Statistics

  • CenStats, from the Census Bureau. User specifies geographic areas, data sets, commodities, etc. and CenStats finds and displays the specified data. As a value-added enhancement, CenStats takes advantage of a standard feature of the Internet by providing direct links between several databases that have common geography (i.e., counties, ZIP code areas, and census tracts).

  • Census Links

  • Census Watch, ESRI site with access to information on Census-related data resources, redistricting, online GIS mapping, education and training, as well as news and articles.

  • Center for Adolescent Studies, focuses on meeting the social and emotional growth and development needs of adolescents through providing support to adults working with youth, investigating current social issues and providing tools for teens to learn and practice new, healthy behaviors (from the School of Education at Indiana University).

  • The Center for Demography, at the University of Wisconsin-Madison.

  • Children, Youth & Family Clearinghouse, Collection of resources related to the health, education and welfare of children and families. Includes FatherNet, AdoptINFO, The Family and Media, Southeast Asian family issues.

  • Columbia International Affairs Online (CIAO), coverage from 1991. includes working papers from university research institutes, occasional papers series from NGOs, foundation-funded research projects, and proceedings from conferences. Access via the category home pages (see below), through alphabetical indices (author, subject, title, and institution); and by searching. Materials are divided into the following categories:
  • working papers
  • journal abstracts (with selected fulltext)
  • books
  • policy briefs
  • case studies
  • course packs
  • Scholarly Events in Foreign Affairs and Security Policy
  • maps and country data (from the CIA World Factbook)
    • Available on all campus machines and off-campus to UK affiliates via the proxy server; please follow these instructions.
  • Computing in the Humanities and Social Sciences (CHASS), at the University of Toronto.

  • ConflictNet, network of people dedicated to promoting the constructive resolution of conflict.

  • County and City Data Books for 1988 and 1994. From the University of Virginia Social Science Data Center. Searchable, it contains demographic, economic, and governmental variables from both federal government and private agency sources, presented for the purpose of multi-area comparisons or single area profiles. Users can choose areas and variables, and there is an option under county and city data to pick all the counties or cities of a particular state. Output can be sorted in three ways, and can be displayed to the browser or saved in an ftp file as either browser output, or comma delimited output for later importing into statistical applications.

  • CUSSN, Computer Use in Social Services Network.

  • Council of European Social Science Data Archives, facilitates the distribution of electronic data for social science education and research in Europe. The multilingual IDC allows users to conduct a broadcast search of up to eleven social science data catalogs located all over the world, including catalogs in Israel, Australia, the US, and Europe.

  • The Electronic Policy Network, covering national policy and politics.

  • ERIC Clearinghouse for Social Studies/Social Science Education, information on social studies education, including descriptions of services and links to valuable Internet resources for social studies education.

  • ESRC: Research Guide to the Social Sciences, provides annotated links to sites sorted by subject matter, including Bibliographic, reference and research information; Publications Online; Subject gateways; Data services; Datasets; Data Visualization; Software services and support for data processing; Images, moving pictures and sound; and Learning and Teaching Support Services.

  • The European Research Centre on Migration and Ethnic Relations, a multidisciplinary research institute.

  • Fedstats, browse the latest public statistics from over 70 agencies of the United States Federal Government.

  • FERRET: Federal Electronic Research and Review Extraction Tool. Supports social science research by permitting researchers to retrieve data from the Current Population Surveys (CPS) and CPS Displaced Workers data, datasets created and updated by the Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS). The site allows researchers to view data or extract records as ASCII text with a user defined delimiter with cross-tabulations or frequency distributions, or as SAS datasets.

  • The Freedom Forum, nonpartisan, international foundation dedicated to free press, free speech and free spirit for all people.

  • Funding for Research

  • General Social Survey Resources, developed at Queens College. Includes an online searchable version of The Annotated Bibliography of Papers Using the General Social Surveys by Tom Smith, Bradley Arnold, and Jennifer Weseley (Tenth Edition, NORC, 1995).

  • General Social Surveys, 1972-1998, from the Inter-university Consortium for Political and Social Research (ICPSR) at the University of Michigan.

  • The Health and Retirement Study, from the Survey Research Center, University of Michigan. Nationally representative longitudinal data collection begun in 1992 that studies retirement and the aging of society.

  • The Health Policy Page, from Idea Central. carries new articles, reports, and other information about health care policy in America, much of the material from leading policy research and advocacy organizations.

  • H-Net Book Review Project, collection of online academic book reviews put together by the H-Net Humanities & Social Sciences Project at Michigan State University. The site contains over 600 scholarly reviews on a wide variety of subjects, searchable and sortable in several ways, from author and title to ISBN and LC number. Most of the reviews are of books published in the last 3-4 years, and some of them have replies and commentaries by authors appended.

  • Human Rights Web

  • ICPSR, the Inter-University Consortium for Political and Social Research.

  • Institute of Social and Cultural Anthropology, Oxford University (includes pointers to WWW anthropology resources).

  • International Association for Social Science Information Service & Technology

  • International Development Co-operation, from the WWW Virtual Library.

  • IPUMS, from the University of Minnesota. Provides on-line access to the public-access population database. Composed of national samples of thirteen U.S. censuses from 1850 through 1990. Quantitative source for the study of long-run social and economic change.

  • Journal Citation Reports, from ISI. Accessible off-campus
    for UK faculty, students and staff
    by following these
    proxy server access instructions.

  • JSTOR, journal backfile digitizing and storage project with access to the backfiles of journals in the humanities, social sciences and mathematics. Searchable. Accessible from campus computers and off-campus via the proxy server.

  • LaborWeb, The AFL-CIO's latest press releases, policy statements, and boycott lists. Links to other labor-related Web sites, as well as the AFL-CIO Organizing Institute.

  • National Coalition for the Homeless

  • National Council for the Social Studies Online, largest association in the US devoted to social science education,the National Council for the Social Studies (NCSS), provides leadership,service, and support for elementary, secondary, and university educators worldwide.

  • National Criminal Justice Reference Service (NCJRS), provides summaries of criminal justice literature: government reports, journal articles, books, and more. The database was previously available only on CD-ROM and via DIALOG.

  • National Economic, Social & Environmental Databank

  • The National Initiative for a Networked Cultural Heritage (NINCH), "broad coalition of arts, humanities and social science organizations formed to assure the fullest possible participation of the cultural sector in the new digitally networked environment."

  • NCSS Online, National Council for the Social Studies, devoted to social studies education. Features information on latest professional news, development opportunities, publications.

  • Native American Resources

  • Panel Study of Income Dynamics, a longitudinal survey of US individuals and the families in which they reside. PSID data can be used for cross-sectional, longitudinal, and intergenerational analysis and for studying both individuals and families.

  • PeaceNet, world-wide computer network serving organizations and individuals working for positive change in the areas of peace, social and economic justice, human rights and the struggle against racism.

  • Pennsylvania State Data Center, economic and demographic information.

  • Periodical Contents Index Full Text (PCI Full Text), index to the contents of thousands of periodicals in the humanities and social sciences, from their first issues to 1995. Every article is indexed. PCI Full Text currently indexes articles in 4,000 journals. Full text currently for 200 journals. From Chadwyck-Healey. Accessible from campus computers and off-campus via the proxy server.

  • PopLine, citations with abstracts to worldwide literature in the fields of population, family planning, and related health issues. Available from the Johns Hopkins Center for Communication Programs. No access restrictions.

  • Population Index

  • Poverty Guidelines, Research, and Measurement, from the U.S. Dept. of Health & Human Services.

  • Prevention of Youth Problems & Promotion of Nurturing Children, from the Texas Youth Commission's Office of Prevention. Dedicated to the prevention of youth problems through the promotion of nurturing children, with an electronic index to over 200 successful prevention programs for youth.

  • Project Muse, from Johns Hopkins University Press, provides access to the fulltext of academic press scholarly journals in the humanities, social sciences, and mathematics. You may either read individual journals or conduct searches across journals. The number of issues available electronically varies. Accessible from campus machines or off-campus for UK faculty, students and staff by following these proxy server access instructions.

  • Public Relations Society of America

  • The Pulse: a consumer's guide to public opinion data on the web.

  • Qualitative Research Resources on the Internet, project dedicated to providing researchers, clinicians, teachers, and students with on-line access to a collection of qualitative research sites and materials available through the World Wide Web. Includes papers, dissertations, and syllabi.

  • Regard, United Kingdom social sciences research site. Search or browse research projects funded by the Economic and Social Research Council (ESRC).

  • Research Methods Knowledge Base, web-based textbook that addresses all of the topics in a typical introductory undergraduate or graduate course in social research methods.

  • Resources for Methods in Evaluation and Social Research, links to online books, manuals, articles on how to do social research, including surveys, interviews, and observations. Also links to research about research methods and free software.

  • RESULTS, an international grassroots citizens lobby, "creating the political will to end hunger and the worst aspects of poverty, and empowering individuals to exercise their personal and political power."

  • Sixties, a detailed historical overview, with text, visuals, and sound.

  • Social, Economic and Political Change, links to information about long term changes in political, economic and social systems, including data, theory, research, syllabi and history.

  • Social Science Data on the Internet, from the University of California, San Diego. Search or browse a collection of nearly 800 Internet sites of numeric Social Science statistical data, data catalogs, data libraries, social science gateways, and addresses.

  • The Social Science Education Consortium, Inc., supports social science and history education in schools (K-12).

  • Social Science Paper Publisher, an occasional electronic journal of social science research.

  • Social Science Research Council, provides information about the SSRC's academic conferences, grant opportunities, fellowship programs, scholarly exchanges, research committees, and council publications.

  • Social Science Research Network (SSRN), provided by Social Science Electronic Publishing (SSEP), this site allows users to freely access thousands of abstracts and full-text research papers.

  • Social Statistics Briefing Room, from the U.S. Government.

  • Society for Human Resource Management, gateway for human resource practitioners to explore the Internet for useful tools in their day-to-day activities.

  • Socioeconomic Data And Applications Center, from the CIESIN Information Network.

  • SocioWeb, sociological resource center.

  • Statistical Resources on the Web, guide to United States, state, and international data. Categories include, agriculture, business and industry, cost of living, demographics, education, energy, health, housing, labor, science, and transportation.

  • Historical Census Data Browser, data describing the people and the economy of the US for each state and county from 1790 to 1960.

  • Urban Studies Institute at the University of Louisville. Umbrella organization that houses the Survey Research Unit, Center for Policy Research and Evaluation, and the Center for Environmental Management.

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    This page was last updated 29 September 2004. To suggest additions or corrections to this list, send mail to Toni Greider at Toni.Greider@uky.edu.

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