In September 2007 the following cultures and 40,000 pages will be added to the new eHRAF World Cultures site: Gusii, Mongolia, Inner Mongolia, Iran, Lur, Aleut, Sea Islanders, Yapese, Tongans, and Jivaro. On September 1, 2007, a beta version of the new eHRAF interface will be available. Try it and let me know what you…
The Russell Sage Foundation has published a series of books of social science research that utilize Census data. The following are books from the series held in the Carleton or St. Olaf libraries. View the complete list at the Russell Sage Foundation web site. The Politics of Numbers. 1987. By William Alonso. CC Books HA37.U55…
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…
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…
The Minorities at Risk project at the University of Maryland provides access to their MAR Data and qualitative risk assessments from the web site. The project is based at the Center for International Development and Conflict Management (CIDCM). MAR tracks 284 politically-active ethnic groups throughout the world from 1945 to the present — identifying where…
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.