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Social
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Social and Human Sciences Documentation Center |
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UNESCO
Chairs in Social and Human Sciences |
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African
Studies Centre is the only resource and documentation centre solely
devoted to the study of Africa in the Netherlands. The institute is
located in the Pieter de la Court Building of the Faculty of Social
Sciences of the University of Leiden. |
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Australian
agency for international development (AusAID) |
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Canadian
international development agency (CIDA) |
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Center
for Sustainable Human Rights Action (CeSHRA): addresses challenges
faced by human rights organizations and offers strategies for long-term
effectiveness and organizational sustainability |
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Council
of European Social Science Data Archives (CESSDA): facilitates
the distribution of electronic data for social science education and
research in Europe |
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Demoscope
Weekly - Russia and the World is an electronic weekly newspaper
on the demographic situation in Russia, its regions and the world;
edited by Anatoly Vishnevsky with support from the MOST Clearing House
(published in Russian, approximate on-line translation available into
English, French and German) |
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Department
For International Development (DFID): British government department
responsible for promoting development and the reduction of poverty |
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The
Development
Gateway helps communities, organizations, and individuals build
partnerships, share ideas, and work together to reduce poverty. |
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Forced
Migration Review is the in-house journal of the Refugee
Studies Centre, University of Oxford. FMR provides a forum for
debate on the most immediate issues facing refugees and internally
displaced people and those working with them. |
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Forum:
habitat in developing countries is a virtual library which provides
information on the improvement of the built environment in developing
countries. |
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Funding
for Research and Training on Issues of Global Security and Cooperation,
(The "Global Security and Cooperation Program" of the Social
Science Research Council) |
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Global
Networks: A Journal of Transnational Affairs is devoted to the
social scientific understanding of globalization and transnationalism. |
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IFDOnet:
Social Science and Data Archives on the Net |
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Indigenous
Studies Component of the WWW Virtual Library |
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Information
on the United
Nations System |
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Integration-Net:
created by Citizenship and Immigration Canada (CIC) as a communications
and research tool to support the work of the Canadian settlement community,
and to develop both a national and international exchange of information
and ideas about best practices on integration strategies and programs. |
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Journal
for Environmental Psychology: covering a wide range of disciplines
and studying the transactions and interrelationships between people
and their sociophysical surroundings (including man-made and natural
environments) and the relation of this field to other social and biological
sciences and to the environmental professions. The journal publishes
internationally contributed empirical studies, reviews of research,
and an extensive book review section. |
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Local
Initiative/partnership Action (LIA): a pilot programme of three
European networks Elaine, Eurocities and Quartiers en Crise |
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Major
Social Science Data Archives : Focus is on Europe with submaps
for the rest of the world. |
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Mannheim
Centre for European Social Research |
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Metropolis:
World Association of the major metropolises. Metropolis is an international
association of 76 cities. It works towards developing solutions to
issues affecting large cities such as urban planning and development,
the economy, the environment, transport, infrastructure and communications. |
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Minority
Rights Group International is an international NGO that promotes
the rights of ethnic, linguistic and religious minorities. |
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Norwegian
Social Sciences Dataservices - NSD |
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Organisation
for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD) |
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Overview
of Social Science Servers at COOMBS |
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Planum
is a European Online-Journal for Town and Regional Planning promoted
by different partners such as journals, associations and academic
and research institutes. |
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The
Planum
Webcompass is a collection of links to websites which are partly
of directly connected to the field of planning.
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Pluralism
and Unity: the multiple dimensions of American modernity and pluralism |
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Register
of Social Sciences Electronic Journals |
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The
Scout Report, a weekly publication offering a selection of new
Internet resources of interest to researchers and educators. |
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The
Scout Report for Social Sciences and Humanities, a biweekly publication
offering a selective collection of Internet resources covering topics
in the field that have been chosen by librarians and content specialists
in the given area of study. |
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SEPHIS:
South-South Exchange Programme for Research on the History of Development |
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Social
Sciences Virtual Library |
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Social
Change: created and maintained by Gene Shackman, who holds a PhD
in sociology, this website looks at long term, large scale changes
in social, political and economic systems at the national and international
levels. Included here are links to theory, research, data sources,
social history sites, national profiles, bibliographies and syllabi,
gateways, and pertinent organizations. |
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Sociological
Research Online World Wide Web Directory |
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Debating
Forums of Sociological
Research Online
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Swedish
international development authority (SIDA) |
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The
World Bank Group |
