Social Sciences Ready Reference

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• ***** E-Ref - Has over 880 free electronic reference titles appropriate for undergraduates.



• Best Online Reference Sites - Has over 500 links on biography & history, books & literature, business & finance, countries & government, consumers & household, dictionaries & encyclopedias, directories, entertainment & recreation, facts, health & science, magazines & news, maps & travel, measures, New York State & local, quotations & writing.



• Directory of Electronic Text Centers - Has links to virtual libraries in the humanities & social sciences.



• Directory of Open Access Journals (DOAJ) - Can search, browse over 2,300 links to scientific & scholarly journals in 17 categories (health sciences, etc.). Can search over 670 journals at the article level.



• EDIRC (Economics Departments, Institutes and Research Centers in the World) - Has links to over 10,,000 institutions in 226 countries.



• e-journals.org - Has links to ejournal collections in over 30 categories.



• Encyclopedia of 1848 Revolutions - Has articles from authors worldwide.



• Encyclopedia of Law & Economics - Has over 5,000 pages of articles with searchable bibliographies of over 20,000 publications.



• Fast Facts: Almanacs/Factbooks/Statistical Reports & Related Reference Tools - Has links in over 140 categories. Focus is U.S. & Canada.



• Footnotes to History - An overview of micronations, ephemeral & secessionist states, etc., that you never heard of in high school. Has links.



• Geostat (Geospatial and Statistical Data Center) - Has links to statistical & social science data, maps & geospatial data.



• History Journals Guide, The - Has directories of 5,400 periodicals & 950 discussion lists; articles in 170 ejournals; 12,500 reviews in 100 sources. Has an enewsletter.



• History Journals Index - Has links to over 1,200 ejournals (not all free).



• Internet Crossroads in Social Science Data - Has over 750 links in 25 categories (data archives & Web directories [macroeconomics, elections, population, poverty, labor, public opinion, education & health, etc.], etc.



• Lawyers.com - A subsidiary of LexisNexis Martindale-Hubbell Has a directory of lawyers & basic consumer legal information. Let's you find, ask, contact lawyers.



• LivRe - Has links to over 2,700 ejournals in the biological, health & medicine, agricultural, exact & earth, engineering, applied social (management, accounting, economy, etc.), human sciences (education, psychology, etc.); linguistics, literature & arts.



• National Digital Archive of Datasets (NDAD) - Can search, browse links to databases created by U.K. government departments (health, law & order, transport, demography, etc.) back to 1963.



• Rare Map Collection - Has maps of colonial, revolutionary, Civil War America & the South.



• Reference Collection - Has links to 21 academic (meta sites; acronyms & abbreviations; almanacs; associations; biography; books, book reviews; publishers; colleges & universities; countries; dictionaries; thesauri & grammars; encyclopedias; flags & anthems; government information, the Internet, journal directories, local & regional information, maps & map services, quotations, speeches & transcripts, statistical sources, style guides, U.S. facts & locations) & 19 general information (audo prices; awards & prize winners; calculators; career resources; consumer information; currencies; email addresses; films; financial aid & grants; genealogy; medicine & health; news; phone books; recipes; September 11th terrorist attacks; time, date & calendars; travel; weather; weights & measures) sites.



• Reference Desk - Has links on citing & evaluating digital resources, copyright & fair use, standards for history & social studies.



• Reference Resources - Has links to maps, statistics, American & British history bibliographies, ejournals, book reviews, biographies, curricula & syllabi, general/miscellaneous resources.



• Scholarly Societies Project - Has links to over 4,100 major international societies & 3,700 conferences, standards, 150 enewsletters, etc.



• Virtual Reference Shelf - Has links in 30 categories (abbreviations, almanacs, associations, awards/prizes, calculators, calendars, clocks/times, consumer information, current events, dictionaries/thesauri, directories, encyclopedias, genealogy, biography & archaeology, government, grant resources, libraries, maps/driving directions, quotations, statistics, etc.).