Type: Social Science
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Define Terms
Online Dictionary of the Social Sciences is a searchable dictionary of terms commonly used in the social sciences. Both phrase and keyword searches are facilitated.
Related Sites
  1. Social Science Information Gateway provides selected Internet information in the social sciences, business, and law.
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  2. Social Science Research Network (SSRN) contains abstracts on working and forthcoming papers, and an electronic paper collection containing downloadable full text documents.
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  3. SocioSite gives access to the worldwide scene of social sciences. The intention is to provide a comprehensive listing of all sociology resources on the Internet.
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  4. Pay-per-view connects to Ingenta and Infotrieve Online both of which restrict access to full text articles. Although access to the full text costs money, these sites can be used as a free index.
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Social Science Data
  1. Inter-university Consortium for Political and Social Research (ICPSR) contains social data archives including nearly 5,000 titles and over 45,000 individual files from 300 institutions worldwide.
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  2. Social Science Data on the Internet is an extensive collection of 873 Internet sites of numeric social science statistical data, data catalogs, data libraries, social science gateways, and financial and economic census files.
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Social Theory
  1. Sociorealm is a non-profit web site whose sole purpose is to provide an easier method of obtaining sociological data on the Internet.
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  2. Evolutionary Theories in the Social Sciences is the premier information site for scholars interested in evolutionary thought in the social sciences.
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Online Forums
  1. H-Net Humanities and Social Sciences Online provides information and resources for all those interested in the Humanities and Social Sciences.
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  2. Sociology Online is a site for students of sociology, criminology and social theory. The site has slideshows, quizzes, and documents, as well as a Socio-News page.
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Legal Materials
  1. The Australasian Legal Information Institute (AustLII) provides free Internet access to Australian legal materials. AustLII's broad public policy agenda is to improve access to justice through better access to information. To that end, it has become one of the largest sources of legal materials on the net, with over seven gigabytes of raw text materials and over 1.5 million searchable documents.
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  2. British and Irish Legal Information Institute (BAILII) provides access to the most comprehensive set of British and Irish primary legal materials that are available for free and in one place on the Internet. As of September 2001, BAILII included 19 databases covering 5 jurisdictions. The system contains over two gigabytes of legal materials and around 275,000 searchable documents with about 10 million internal hypertext links.
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  3. CanLII is a permanent resource in Canadian Law that was initially built as a prototype site in the field of public and free distribution of Canadian primary legal material.
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  4. Legal Information Institute (US) contains an extensive materials on the law that has overviews of more than 100 legal topics, including: links to specific laws and related Web resources; Constitutions & Codes (state and federal); Court Opinions, available judicial opinion (federal and state); Law by Source (federal, state and international); Current Awareness includes Eye on the Courts (news on important court decisions); Directories, links to organizations and journals (law reviews); as well as directories of judges, lawyers, and law schools.
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  5. The World Legal Information Institute (WorldLII) is a free, independent and non-profit global legal research facility. Databases accessible through WorldLII are located at the following sites:
    • Australasian Legal Information Institute (AustLII)
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    • British and Irish Legal Information Institute (BAILII)
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    • Canadian Legal Information Institute (CanLII)
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    • Hong Kong Legal Information Institute (HKLII)
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    • Pacific Islands Legal Information Institute (PacLII)
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    • WorldLII (including databases provided by Wits Law School, South Africa)
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  6. FindLaw is one of the best examples of a subject-specific metasite. More than just an extremely well-organized directory of selected Internet law resources, FindLaw also "offers a search tool for legal Web pages, the largest free database of full-text Supreme Court cases, a search engine and directory of online law reviews, a collection of state codes, interactive continuing education courses, and legal online discussions."
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  7. Jurist-Law professors on the web provides links to the home pages of over fifty law professors, to over fifty pre- and post-prints of articles (in nine subjects from business law to regulation), and to twenty meta-pages, maintained by law professors, on topics from administrative to tax law. Also included are a large list of online law course pages, three lectures, and pointers to other resources. Essentially an annotated tour through the law resources of the Internet conducted by professors of law.
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Government Policies
  1. First Gov (U.S. federal and state) is a public-private partnership, led by a cross-agency board.
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  2. Canada Sites provides an information and services gateway run by the Government of Canada and each of the provinces.
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Media Reports
Immediately initiates a search based on the subject of the article or paper that connects users to free, current and archival articles in the field from leading newspapers around the world.
  1. Major leading newspapers around the world:
    Globe and Mail, Toronto (last seven days)
    Mail & Guardian Newspaper, South Africa (1994-)
    National Public Radio, United States (unlimited)
    New York Times, New York (last seven days)
    People's Daily, China (January 1999-)
    The Japan Times Online, Japan (January 1999-)
    The Moscow Times, Russia (1994-)
    Washington Post, Washington, DC (last two weeks)
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  2. Newsdirectory is a comprehensive and searchable guide to the world's English-language online media. Currently over 8,000 newspapers and magazines are listed, as well as more than 1,000 U.S. television broadcasters.
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