SOCIAL SCIENCE LINKS

Sites are presented in alphbetical order and reflect no preference.

• AAD: The Affirmative Action and Diversity Project: A Web Page for Research.
• Act-UP: The ACT-UP (Aids Coalition to Unleash Power) oral history project.
• The Adoption History Project: A digital public history resource, profiling people, organizations, topics, and studies that shaped modern American adoption theory and practice.
• AFAM: Minority Links: Facts on the Black/African American Population.
• After Sept. 11: Perspectivesfrom the Social Sciences Research Council on 9/11.
• AgeLine Research Database: Detailed summaries of more than 90,000 publications about aging and the 50+ population.
• American Factfinder: Census Bureau access point for Census 2000 data.
• AMIND: Minority Links: Facts on the American Indian/ Alaska Native Population.
• APA: American Psychological Association.
• API: Minority Links: Facts on the Asian/Pacific Islander Population.
• ChildStats.gov: America's Children: Key National Indicators of Well-Being, 2005 is a biennial report to the Nation on the condition of children in America.
• CIS: The Center for Immigration Studies is an independent, non-partisan, non-profit research organization founded in 1985, the nation's only think tank devoted exclusively to research and policy analysis of the economic, social, demographic, fiscal, and other impacts of immigration on the United States.
• COMM-ORG: COMM-ORG was founded in 1995 by Wendy Plotkin and is now moderated and edited by Randy Stoecker weih the mission to link academics and activists, and theory and practice, toward the goal of improving community organizing and its related crafts.
• CSISS: The Center for Spatially Integrated Social Science recognizes the growing significance of space, spatiality, location, and place in social science research.
• Cultural Profiles Project: Citizenship and Immigration Canada provides Host Program funding to non profit organizations to recruit Canadian volunteer hosts and match them with new immigrants to Canada.
• Data Archive: Data Archives of the Odum Institute.
• DLC: The Digital Library of the Commons (DLC) provides free access to an archive of international literature on the commons, common-pool resources and common property. Features for authors and readers include advanced searching; browsing by region, sector, and author name; an author submission portal for uploading a variety of document formats.
• Digital Library of Appalachia: The Digital Library of Appalachia provides online access to archival and historical materials related to the culture of the southern and central Appalachian region.
• DRILM: UC Berkeley's website on the Disability Rights and Independent Living Movement with primary sources exploring the social and political history of the disability movement from the 1960s to the present.
• ECAI: Electronic Cultural Atlas Initiative at the University of California, Berkeley's international and area studies department.
• Eldis: The Eldis Gateway to Development Information.
• Emuseum: The EMuseum fosters graduate and undergraduate learning through participation in research and scholarly activities.
• Feminism: Feminist Theory Website: Index Page.
• FMO: Forced Migration Online (FMO) provides instant access to a wide variety of online resources dealing with the situation of forced migrants worldwide.
• Games kids play: Online encyclopedia of children's games.
• Gaylesb: Guide to Gay and Lesbian Resources: A Classified Bibliography Based upon the Collections of the University of Chicago Library.
• Gender and Development: The World Bank views the third Millennium Development Goal—to promote gender equality and empower women—as a central component to its overall mission to reduce poverty and stimulate economic growth.
• Geron: Social Gerontology and the Aging Revolution.
• GLBTQ: Gay, lesbian, bisexual, transgender, and queer encyclopedia.
• GSSD: Global System for Sustainable Development.
• HISP: Minority Links: Facts on the Hispanic/ Latino Population.
• Idata: Search 748 Internet sites of numeric Social Science statistical data, data catalogs, data libraries, social science gateways, addresses and more.
• IPR: The Institute for Policy Research (IPR) is an interdisciplinary public policy research institute founded in 1968 at Northwestern University.
• ISR: The University of Michigan Institute for Social Research (ISR) is one of the largest and oldest academic survey and social research organizations in the world.
• IWPR: Institute for Women's Policy Research.
• The Jewish Encyclopedia: This website contains the complete contents of the 12-volume Jewish Encyclopedia, which was originally published between 1901-1906.
• Jewish Studies Internet directory: A directory of academic Jewish studies sites from the WWW Virtual Library
• Lewis Mumford Center: An interdisciplinary venue where scholars could exchange ideas and collaborate on a wide range of projects focusing on the urban political economy.
• Medieval and modern thought text project: The goal of this project is to digitize on an ongoing basis 25,000+ pages per year of printed reference works, source collections, and primary and secondary books in the broad area of medieval and modern thought.
• MPI: Migration Policy Institute's Global Data Center.
• Nativehaw: Facts on the Native Hawaiian and Other Pacific Islander Population from the U.S. Census Bureau.
• NERCRD: The Northeast Regional Center for Rural Development is dedicated to research-based information that helps create regional prosperity through entrepreneurial and cluster-based innovation, while assuring balanced uses of natural resources in livable communities in the northeastern United States.
• NIA: The National Institute on Aging, one of the 27 Institutes and Centers of NIH, leads a broad scientific effort to understand the nature of aging and to extend the healthy, active years of life.
• ONE: ONE Institute & Archives a research library on Gay, Lesbian, Bisexual, and Transgendered heritage and concerns.
• Peacenet: Peacenet, a gateway to peace, human rigths, and social and economic jusctice from IGC.
• Pollingreport: An independent, nonpartisan resource on trends in American public opinion.
• Popin: United Nations Population Information Network, A guide to population information on UN system web sites.
• Povlinks: Poverty Related Links.
• Public Sociology: The Mission of the Public Sociology website is to support and advance the practice of public sociology.
• PWH: People with a History An Online Guide to Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual and Trans* History.
• Queertheory: Queer studies, gender studies, and related fields.
• QRD: The Queer Resources Directory.
• Rambi: The Index of Articles on Jewish Studies from The Jewish National and University Library.
• Ropercenter: Roper Center for Public Opinion Research.
• Sage Crossroads: SAGE Crossroads is an online forum for emerging issues of human aging.
• Slave Trade Archives: The Slave Trade Archives Project was launched in 1999 with the aim of improving access to, and safeguarding of, original documents related to the transatlantic slave trade and slavery throughout the world.
• Smart Communities Network: Resources, tools, links to articles and publications, and community success stories on a variety of topics from Community Energy, to Green Development, to Sustainable Business.
• SmartGrowth Online: In communities across the nation, there is a growing concern that current development patterns -- dominated by what some call "sprawl" -- are no longer in the long-term interest of our cities, existing suburbs, small towns, rural communities, or wilderness areas.
• Social Psychology Network: A large social psychology database on the Internet where you'll find more than 5,000 links related to psychology.
• Social Sciences Virtual Library: The World-Wide Web Virtual Library's gateway to Social science resources.
• The Sociolog: Julian Dierkes'comprehensive guide to sociology on-line.
• Sociological Cyberspace Tour: A Sociological Tour Through Cyberspace.
• Sociosite: Megasite from the Sociological Institute at the University of Amsterdam edited by albert Benschop.
• SRDI: The Southern Rural Development Initiative was officially incorporated in 1994.
• Survey Research Center: Princeton's Survey Research Center.
• Thirdspace: A journal for emerging feminist scholars.
• Trochim: Bill Trochim's Center for Social Research Methods.
• Understanding Prejudice: Web site for students, teachers, and others interested in the causes and consequences of prejudice.
• UNHCR: The Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees was established on December 14, 1950 by the United Nations General Assembly
• US Population profile: 2000: The first Internet only version of this Census Bureau report.
• We the People: U.S. Census Bureau special reports on population groups.
• Women in Print: Essays on the Print Culture of American Women From the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries edited by James P. Danky and Wayne A. Wiegand.
• Women's Studies Librarian's Website: International Women's Conferences, concerns, and resources.
• World Public Opinion.org: The Program on International Policy Attitudes (PIPA) launched WorldPublicOpinion.org (WPO) in January 2006 to provide a source of in-depth information and analysis on public opinion from around the world on international issues.
• WRDC: The Western Rural Development Center.
• WSSLINKS: Women's Studies Section of the Association of College and Research Libraries.
• Yale Center for the Study of Globalization: The Yale Center for the Study of Globalization (YCSG) was launched in the fall of 2001 to enrich the debate about globalization on campus and to promote the flow of ideas between Yale and the policy world.

Links last verified and updated 11/13/2008.

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