Social Sciences

ASSIA [electronic resource].
ASSIA (Applied Social Sciences Index and Abstracts). Covers English language journals in applied social sciences. Includes health, economics, social issues & social policy, organisational behaviour and communication.

Economic and Social Data Service (ESDS) [electronic resource].
ESDS resource supplying access to international data.

IBSS [electronic resource].
Updated weekly, with data going back to 1951. IBSS Online (International Bibliography of the Social Sciences) contains references to over 2400 selected journals and 7000 books per year.

ISI Web of Knowledge (WOK), Arts and Humanities Citation Index, BIDS-ISI [electronic resource].
References,citations, selected abstracts. Includes Science Citation Index expanded, Social Science Index and Arts & Humanities Index from 1981 to the present. Covers over 9000 scholarly research journals and is updated weekly.

Includes: SOCIAL SCIENCE CITATION INDEX:
Reference and some abstracts to all aspects of scholarly research in the social sciences from 1981.

Social Policy Digest Online

Social Policy Digest Online is a key resource that provides an easily accessible listing of new developments in the social policy field.

Social Policy and Practice [electronic resource].
Social Policy and Practice is a bibliographic database with abstracts covering evidence-based social policy, public health, social services, and mental and community health. The database is particularly strong on social care of the young and elderly.

British Education Index [electronic resource].
Covers education and training mainly in the UK.

Census [electronic resource].
Census.ac.uk, home of the ESRC Census Programme, provides services to allow users in UK higher and further education institutions to access data from the 1971, 1981, 1991 and 2001 UK censuses.

CommunityWISE [electronic resource].
Contains community, charities and voluntary agency information. Data is provided by bodies such as Barnados, Community Development Foundation and the National Centre for Volunteering.

Education Research Complete [electronic resource].
Via EBSCOhost databases. Education Research Complete is a bibliographic and full text database covering scholarly research and information relating to all areas of education. Topics covered include all levels of education from early childhood to higher education, and all educational specialties, such as multilingual education, health education, and testing. The database provides indexing and abstracts for more than 1,730 journals, as well as full text for nearly 830 journals. This database also includes full text for 67 books and monographs, and full text for numerous education-related conference papers.

EIU Country Data [electronic resource].
Annual, quarterly and monthly economic indicators and forecasts from the Economist Intelligence Unit. Covers 117 countries, with 270 series starting from 1980 and forecasting to 2006.

Index to Theses [electronic resource].
Covers from 1970 onwards. Information on theses accepted for higher degrees by the Universities of Great Britain and Ireland. Information given includes title, date, type of award, University and usually, an abstract.

LexisLibrary [electronic resource].
UK Cases (including the All England Reports), UK Journals and Newspapers.
International Legal Materials includes access to an extensive collection of US law journals.

Oxford Reference Online [electronic resource].
All major Oxford University Press reference works, including the Companions series, are searchable individually or across the whole database. Strong in the Humanities, Languages, Science and Medicine.

Psycinfo [electronic resource].
Via EBSCOhost databases. From 1974. Includes details of articles with abstracts from over 1300 psychology journals, from 1974.

Psychology & Behavioral Sciences Collection [electronic resource].
Via EBSCOhost databases. Psychology & Behavioral Sciences Collection is a comprehensive database covering information concerning topics in emotional and behavioral characteristics, psychiatry & psychology, mental processes, anthropology, and observational & experimental methods. Has more than 420 full-text journals. Also links to full text from citations within PsycINFO.

ScienceDirect (Science Direct) [electronic resource].
Database containing over 1000 full text journals from Elsevier Science and the leading scientific, technical and medical publishers. Covers life, physical, technical and social sciences.

Social Care Online [electronic resource].
Social Care Online is the UK's most extensive database of social care information. With everything from research briefings, to reports, government documents, journal articles, and websites and you find it all with the click of a button. Updated daily by SCIE's experienced information managers, Social Care Online offers unrivalled free access and ease of use.

Urbaline [electronic resource].
Urbaline is a database created and updated daily by the GLA Research Library. It contains details of around 400,000 documents covering all aspects of urban and social policy from the early 1980s to the present.

ZETOC [electronic resource].
The database contains details of approximately 20,000 current journals and 16,000 conference proceedings published per year.

Academic Onefile [electronic resource].
Academic OneFile is the premier source for peer-reviewed, full-text articles from the world's leading journals and reference sources. With extensive coverage of the physical sciences, technology, medicine, social sciences, the arts, theology, literature and other subjects, Academic OneFile is both authoritative and comprehensive. With millions of articles available in both PDF and HTML full-text with no restrictions, researchers are able to find accurate information quickly. Includes full-text coverage of the New York Times back to 1995. Updated daily.

Business Source Premier [electronic resource].
Via EBSCOhost databases. Provides full-text for approximately 2,300 scholarly business journals covering management, economics, finance, accounting, international business and marketing. Includes Dun & Bradstreet company information.

IngentaConnect [electronic resource].
IngentaConnect offers access to article summaries of over 2500 publications, along with the full text of over 4500 publications from 150 publishers (including: Academic Press, Arnold, Blackwell Science, Blackwell Publishers,Elsevier, Gordon and Breach, Harwood Academic, Portland Press, Professional Engineering Publishing and White Horse Press).

ProQuest Newspapers, Daily Telegraph, Financial Times, Guardian, Independent, Times [electronic resource].
Updated daily. Database of the Daily Mail & Mail on Sunday; Daily Telegraph & Sunday Telegraph; Evening Standard; Financial Times; Guardian & Observer; Times and Sunday Times; Independent. Coverage is from at least January 1998 onwards for all titles.

African & Asian Visual Arts Archive (Aavaa)
Comprehensive slide archive of contemporary visual art by artists of African & Asian descent working in the UK since the post-war period.

American Sociological Association
The public section contains some full text articles.

British Official Publication Collaborative Reader Information Service (BOPCRIS)
Bibliographic database of key 19th & 20th Century British official publications from 1833-1983.

British Sociological Association
Home page of the professional association for sociologists. Describes itself as a "key resource for anyone wanting to keep in touch with developments in the discipline."

Council of European Social Sciences Data Archives
Council of European Social Sciences Data Archives

Dead Sociologists Society
Links to the works of well known social theorists.

Design Council Slide Collection
Nearly 3000 fully catalogued images covering a wide range of subjects including design, applied arts, media and history.

Electronic Journal of Sociology
A full text ejournal.

Euroguide
Information on all aspects of the European Community, from acronyms to social policy.

European Centre for Social Welfare Policy and Research
The European Centre is an international centre for social research, policy, information and training, focused on social welfare. Affiliated to the United Nations. Has links to other sites.

European Parliament
Information from and about the European Parliament.

Eurotext
Full text of key European Union documents from 1950, selected by UK academics. Subject areas covered include history, the institutions, treaties and policies such as monetary union and social policy.

Giddens Homepage
The homepage of Anthony Giddens. Includes a list of his publications and some full text material.

Helix (Higher Education Library Image eXchange)
Over 52,000 images from the Hulton Getty Collection (the "Picture Post" archive), the National Art Slide Library & the Valentine Photographic Archive. Material is on the social & political history of Britain from 1859 to the present.

Home Office
Information about the work of the Home Office, including the full text of its publications.

House of Commons
You can follow debates in Hansard.

Open Directory Sociology Page
Index and links to useful web sites.

PSN - Progressive Sociologists Network
Describes itself as "devoted to the examination of issues of theoretical and political importance to sociologists."

Regard - replaced by the ESRC Society Today
Key source of information on ESRC-funded research. Information is available on initial projects, research results. Links to research projects web sites and on-line publications where available.

Research Resources for the Social Sciences
Research Resources for the Social Sciences

R Rojas Databank
A wealth of information for development studies from our own Dr Rojas.

Sarah Zupkos Cultural Studies Centre
Covers a wide range of social science related areas.

Social Sciences Gateway
Main gateway to whole reange of sites in the social sciences field.

Sociological Research Online
Has some full text articles.

Sociological Tour through Cyberspace
A gateway to sites to "stimulate the sociological imagination".

Sociosite
A "sociological information system" (in English) based at the University of Amsterdam. Has links to information on subject areas and sociologists.

Socioweb
"your independent guide to sociological resources on the Internet". Has links to relevant web sites.

Statbase
The official UK statistics site. It is not full text but is useful for finding what statistics have been published and where.

Statistical Abstract of the United States (1996 edition)
Statistical information from the US Census Bureau 1996 census.

UK Data Archive
A collection of digital data in the social sciences and humanities.

Yahoo! Social Sciences Resources
Yahoo! Social Sciences Resources

American Political Science Association (APSA)
A leading US professional body. Gives details of its activities and has some full text conference papers

The British Politics Web Site
Links to many political web sites, including those from political parties, politicians and think tanks.

CCTA, Government Information Service
From this site you can find British government & official web sites.

Electoral Commision
Election results from around the world. Also has details of parliaments and parties.

Europa
Information from and about the European Parliament and other European institutions

Government on the Web
Maintained by the LSE Public Policy Group, this site aims to give information on the use of the internet by governments.

Hansard (House of Commons)
Verbatim record of parliamentary debates. The previous day's debate is published at 12.30pm each day.

Images of American Political History
Over 500 copyright cleared images of US political history from 1750

Internet Politician
A teach-yourself tutorial on Internet information skills for politicians. Tour some key sites and discover techniques to improve your searching

PS - Political Science & Politics Online
Full text of the journal published by the American Political Science Association.

Political Studies Association
A leading professional organisation for politics. Has links to other useful sites.

Power, Politics and Protest
Compiled by the Public Records Office, gives access to primary resource materials such as letters & newspaper articles relating to Nineteenth Century British history.

Richard Kimber's Political Science Resources
An excellent gateway to relevant resources covering all aspects of political science, from elections to political thought.

R Rojas Ddatabank
Information about economic and development issues in Chile, People's Republic of China, Taiwan, Latin America, South East and East Asia.

Social Science Information Gateway: Economics
Links to all aspects of economics.

Social Science Information Gateway: Politics
Links to good quality relevant web sites.

Statewatch News
Contains news stories & features about European politics going back to 1991.

UK Elect
UK election forecasting and politics program. Includes 1999 Scottish & Welsh elections and the UK European parliament results.

UK Parliament Web Site
Full text reports from parliamentary select committees covering all areas of policy.

Voice of the Shuttle: Politics & Government Page
An American site, good for U.S. politics, but coverage is international.