Social Science World Wide Web Resources

The World Wide Web grows exponentially daily, this list will hopefully serve as an introduction to the myriad of resources available for the Social Sciences and Humanities. Listed below are a few starting points for locating resources, electronic journals and indexes.>

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Resource lists

• Yahoo's Social Science list
• Coombs Social Science list
• Humanities list via Goteborg University
  

Additional starting points and resources

• AEA's Resources for Economists on the Internet
• American Economic Association Directory of Members
• The Anthropological Index Online (Current Periodicals in the Museum of Mankind Library)
• Census Data
• Coombs database (Australian National University)
• Directory of Scholarly Electronic Conferences
• Encyclopaedia Britannica
• Historical Census Data for the U.S. available from Virginia and from Inter-university Consortium for Political and Social Research (ICPSR)
• History of Science and Technology and Medical Research
• Institute of Social and Cultural Anthropology (Oxford University)
• The Making of America Project a joint project of Cornell University and the University of Michigan.
• Postmodern culture e-zine
• RAMBI (Index to articles on Jewish Studies)
• Science searching of the Web from Scirus
• Social Science Information Gateway (University of Bristol)
• SSRN Social Science Research Network 
• Stanford Humanities Review
• Geostat,  Geospatial and Statistical Data Center at the University of Virginia
  

Library access

• Berkeley Digital Library Sun SITE , Sun JavaŽ programming for easy searching and cataloging of text and images.
• IFLA's list of National Libraries
• Karlsruhe Virtual Katalog
• Library of Congress
• LIBWEB (Libraries on the web)
• National Archives and Records Administration which includes the Audiovisual Information Locator.
  

Electronic text archives

• Alex: a catalog of electronic texts on the Internet
• Carrie Electronic Library at the University of Kansas
• Electronic Text Center (University of Virginia)
  

Academic information, news, and more

• Academe (Chronicle of Higher Education)- current academic job openings
• The Newsroom
• Daily News (via Yahoo.com)