Published by Academic Press, providing TOC with abstracts.

Ethics and the Environment

Provides contents lists with short abstracts.

Publishes original research dealing with the international aspects of financial management and accountancy, extending into banking and financial services, auditing and taxation.

Contains research articles and book reviews covering all fields of Political Science. It is published quarterly by the University of Wisconsin Press. Tables of contents and abstracts are available on the website from volume 39, 1995 onwards.

Is devoted to the rapid world-wide dissemination of social science research and is composed of a number of specialised research networks in each of the social sciences to encourage the distribution of research results by submitting abstracts. Currently the database contains all abstracts published in the Journal of Financial Abstracts from its inception through August 1995 (about 1500 abstracts of different papers). The database contains the abstracts for both the Journal of Financial Abstract's Accepted Paper Series and Working Paper Series, the author and/or working paper co-ordinator's contact information (E-mail address, Phone Number, Fax Number, and Postal Address) as well as information about how to get a copy of the paper and any associated charges. They will soon be adding information from the Journal of Accounting Abstracts, Law and Economics Abstracts, and our other new SSRN journals.

This is the online version of Population Index. It covers all fields of interest to demographers from 1986 onwards. It can be searched in a variety of ways in addition to free text searching.

The ERIC database is the world's largest source of education information. The database contains more than 950,000 abstracts of documents and journal articles on education research and practice. You can access the ERIC database via the internet through World Wide Web, via Gopher, or via commercial vendors and public networks. The database is updated monthly (quarterly on CD-ROM), ensuring that the information you receive is timely and accurate.

Compiled by the Australian Geological Survey provides basic statistics on atmospheric, underground and underwater nuclear explosions which have taken place worldwide since 1945. The information offered includes the size of the explosion, time and location.

The World Database of Happiness, maintained by Professor Ruut Veenhoven of Erasmus University Rotterdam, is a "continuous register of scientific research on subjective appreciation of life." This site contains the Bibliography of Happiness, a collection of over 3,000 scientific publications accessible by author or subject; the Catalog of Happiness in Nations, providing responses from over 1,500 national happiness surveys taken in 93 different countries between 1946 and 1996; the Catalog of Happiness Correlates, which presents the abstracts of correlational research findings from 662 studies worldwide; and finally, the Directory of Happiness Investigators, an international listing of more than 3,300 happiness researchers.

A database containing sleep and sleep-related citations and abstracts. It has been produced by the Brain Information Service at the University of California, Los Angeles.

Offers over 11,000 worldwide references to social science research and training institutes social sciences specialists social science documentation and information services social science periodicals.The database also contains special references to peace, human rights and international law research institutes.

Provides listings of Data Repositories, Data Analysis Resources, Text Processing Software & Archival Resources.

Produced by the International Bureau of Education, it is a databank consisting of full profiles of the education system of almost every country. The profiles are the reports on developments in education presented by Member States to the annual International Conference on Education.

It contains a worldwide inventory of research information databases, containing approx. 70 descriptions. All databases are included that contain information on research organizations, on scientists or on current research projects or programs. Some of these databases contain also research publications. Databases dealing only with information on publications (purely bibliographic databases) have been excluded. Information is available in many languages. In searching, you can include translations of your search request in all languages desired.

Includes the addresses of professional anthropologists and amateurs. The directory can be searched by name, institution, address or research interests.

An index of embassies, with entries for over 50,000 diplomats worldwide. It is possible to search the directory directly by name or to browse country entries.

Keeps track of leading on-line serials of value/significance to researchers in Social Sciences (and Humanities). This document is a part of the Social Sciences WWW Virtual Library which was established at the Australian National University.

Index of links to more than 1,500 psychology and social science journal sites with free table of contents and abstracts. Free full text for some of the journals are available.

In economics, access to 38 journals' TOC with abstracts is available. Full text of few journals are also accessible. Subscribers of printed version can even dowload the articles.

Is one rare example of a full text freely accessible online journal, published by the CTI Economics centre at the University of Bristol.

A refereed electronic journal focusing on judicial decisions, legislation, legal research and much more. It is published bi-monthly by the University of Newcastle in association with Blackstone Press.

This is a peer-reviewed electronic journal whose aim is to encourage research into the linkages between political economy and human environmental impacts.

Electronic version of the CJBS, a scholarly journal that is also available as a printed publication, produced by the Canadian Psychological Association. Full-text of articles are available from 1995 editions onwards, and tables of contents and abstracts are available for the period 1986-1994. Many subjects within psychology and the behavioural sciences are covered, and all articles are peer-reviewed. Articles are given in both English and French.

Information about the journal, including tables of contents, submission guidelines, subscription and ordering information

Aims to promote higher living standards worldwide. Its website contains information on current UN development programmes as well as a selection of surveys of economic and welfare conditions throughout the world. It also contains the full text of all its sessional documents from 1994 onwards.

The Home of Peace Studies on the World-Wide Web Search Peace Discussions.The Peace Studies Association (PSA) Calendar of Peace Studies Conferences & Events Directory of University Programs, Courses and Syllabi Peace Research Centers, Institutes & Organizations The Peace List (Peace Studies Discussion Group) Peace Studies Abroad: Programs & Venues Explore Service-Learning

Education Descriptions, message archives and subscription information for numerous mailing lists relevant to education.

The SOSIG mailing list

Has over 400 members from the world-wide social science community and distributes messages about, among other things, new Internet sites and services for social scientists.

Is for the discussion around alternatives to the prevailing economic paradigms and such questions as sustainability, the role of economic growth, free trade and the environment, and the role of multilateral economic institutions in the sustainability of the development process. The site also provides the full text of essays from some of the members of the mailing list and some links to related sources of information.

A list which was established to share ideas and practice in CAL. It is open to anyone involved in utilising CAL or undertaking research into CAL. The list does not specialise in any particular platform or software solution, but seeks to share innovation in the theory and practice of CAL in education.

Another example of a mailing list which discusses issues relating to the teaching and learning of Politics in higher education. It is possible to search archives of the messages sent to the mailing list since 1996 and to obtain a list of current members.

A discussion group for lawyers, especially those interested in the use of information technology within legal teaching, including discussion of LEXIS/NEXIS (usage, cost, contractual arrangements, etc.) and other sources of electronic legal information.

An online research methods text book, authored and published by Bill Trochim of Cornell University, USA. The book provides an excellent introductory course in research methods, allowing students to work at their own pace and to add comments to the site.

Site contains a section of the online version of the Grolier Encyclopedia . It includes introductory information for students on the nature of the American constitution and the role of the president, as well as biographies of the individual political leaders from George Washington to Bill Clinton. It also contains audiofiles of famous speeches and bibliographies of further reading.

Claims to be the leading professional body in the United Kingdom concerned solely with taxation. The site contains information directed at both the novice and expert in the field of taxation.

Has a very extensive web site including lists of conferences, journals and psychological societies.

Aims to promote the study of Politics worldwide. It includes information on forthcoming conferences and political science events as well as an index to its journal publication 'Political Studies'.

Electronic Texts in Education and Training Project funded under the Electronic Libraries programme to gather an electronic archive of preprints, grey literature and texts in education and training.

Articles with theoretical, empirical and methodological foci, book reviews and many links to research sites.

A non-profit association for scientific purposes. The ISA was founded in 1949 under the auspices of UNESCO. The goal of the Association, is to represent sociologists everywhere, regardless of their school of thought, scientific approaches or ideological opinion, and to advance sociological knowledge throughout the world.

IASSIST is an organization dedicated to the issues and concerns of data librarians, data archivists, data producers, and data users. This unique professional association assists members in their support of social science research.

Provides comprehensive information about psychology software and WWW sources. PsycLink contains software information related to psychology instruction, research, and practice. It is a non-commercial service managed by Peter Hornby, an academic in the psychology department at the State University of New York.

Created and hosted by Biz/ed, the Virtual Factory is an integrated learning resource which shows how business theory is applied to a real life business situation. Modelled on Cameron Balloons, the factory can be downloaded free of charge.

CTI Economics - The information service of the Computers in Teaching Initiative (CTI) Centre for Economics.

This contains information on the work carried out by the centre, the full text of the Centre's Catalogue of Economics Software. Also contains the Blackwell Economic Article Index, an on-line version of the Centre's journal (CHEER) and the software reviews section of the Economic Journal.

Allows you to enter raw data via a web-form, click on a button, and receive (almost instantly) a set of t-test calculations, including the mean and variance of the two variables, the t-statistic and the degrees of freedom. Produced by Jan de Leeuw of the University of California, Los Angeles (USA).

Originating from the Nanyang Technological University, this resource provides access to an enormous amount of statistical data that is relevant to social scientists. Mainly broken down by geographic location, the areas covered are: Asia; Oceania; North America; Europe; Africa; International; Latin America; Others There is also a section on: Financial Data Locators.

This is a graphical package for displaying comparative data from the 1992-93 Indian National Health Survey. The user can instantly display bar charts, line charts, and pie charts. Graphs can be saved modified and arranged into an interactive slide show, for later viewing.

Is an online pool of lesson plans and class materials from teachers and lecturers around the World - all made freely available on the Internet for others to use.

Anthropology Set of annotated links to books, course materials and other educational resources relevant to anthropology.

A main body which is responsible for encouraging the use of computers in the teaching of Sociology, Government and politics. Its website provides basic information on the project and some articles on the use of information technology in education.

Johan Mårtensson's On-Line Logic Book

Probability: Paradoxes and Puzzles

A hypertext listing of Economics Departments, Institutes and Research Centres around the World that have a web server. The list is organised under countries and links are verified every 100 file accesses and is maintained by Christian Zimmermann of the Université du Québec à Montréal, Canada.

This offers a searchable database of Higher Education geography departments with information on 762 departments in 65 different countries.

The Amos Tuck School of Business Administration, Dartmouth College, New Hampshire, (US) provides an alphabetic list of US business schools, from which direct access can be made to each school.

You can see a number of virtual experiments in action and you can submit your own surveys to the site. The site has been developed by staff at the Department of Psychology at Nipissing University in Canada.

Is a list of papers written by staff at the School of Cognitive and Computing Sciences at the University of Sussex. Abstracts of the papers are given and in some cases the full text of papers can be retrieved over the Internet via ftp (file transfer protocol).

WoPEc

Is an international effort to collect together and make publicly available working papers in economics from academics from all around the world. The database is continually expanding and contains thousands of working papers from hundreds of series. WoPEc is part of a larger project called NetEc which is an international academic project for networking interaction in economics.

Is a list of working papers from the Centre for Marketing at the London Business School. Details are available from 1995 and include abstracts for all papers and the full-text in Adobe Acrobat (pdf) format for most. The full-text version is withdrawn when the paper is published.