One more reason you’ll be happier if you remember to look for working papers… As much as I emphasize using the indexes and abstracts of journal literature in the social sciences, it is also important, especially when looking for emerging research, to look at the research being published by the major NGOs, IGOs and think…
EconStats is one of my favorite places to look for global monetary and financial statistics. Types of statistics you can find at this site: Foreign exchange rates by day, week, month, quarter or year Global interest rates Global stock markets Macro variables from GDP and unemployment to money and quasi money Spot prices and futures
Directory of Development Organizations One of the most comprehensive guides online to NGOs. It lists 47,500 development organizations, not limited to NGOs, but also including governmental agencies, research institutions, private sector and the like.
Guide to Freely Available International Data Resources An annotated list of major free comparative national-level data sources, compiled by ESDS International.
The Think Tanks page on the Statistical Resources for Political Science site (U of Michigan Documents Center) lists several comprehensive directories of think tanks. It also features an alphabetical list of major think tanks and links to their web sites. Another comprehensive directory is the World Think Tank Directory from the Policy Library. Also, the…
Sponsored by the American Economic Association, the RFE site lists and annotates 2,100 resources including datasets, data catalogs, metasites, and much more. This is a great place to get a sense of available data or to start a search for data.
SOSIG is an excellent metasite of online resources in the social sciences. I use this site frequently to find statistics and data sources, digital libraries, open source publications, governement and ngo agencies that publish on a topic, and other free sources. Every source is selected, indexed, and annotated, which makes it easy to search the…
EH.net or the Economic History Services web site is an excellent resource for resources of interest to Economic Historians. However, whenever you are looking for historical economic data, check the EH.net databases page, which includes a range of U.S. and global historical data series that have been submitted to the site.
Data on the Net From the University of California, San Diego’s searchable listing of 850 Internet sites of numeric Social Science statistical data, data catalogs, data libraries, social science gateways, addresses and more.
MEMDB contains five large data sets, three pertaining to currency exchanges and two pertaining to prices.