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a blue star  indicates CHOICE Highly Recommended site |
| American Psychological Association |
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| Addiction Search |
site focuses on well-respected, reliable sources, not personal or self-help sites |
| Affirmative Action and Diversity Project: A Web Page for Research |
not recently updated, but interesting historical information |
| After Sept 11: Perspectives from the Social Sciences |
Social Science Research Council |
| AIDS Coalition to Unleash Power [ACTUP] Oral History Project |
alternately painful and uplifting; transcripts are downloadable as PDF files |
| American FactFinder |
US Census Bureau |
| Archives of the History of American
Psychology |
housed at the University of Akron, provides information about 740 psychologists and 40 organizations |
| Better World Links |
over 30,000 well-organized links in such topic areas as Human Rights, Social Justice and Women and Economics, etc. |
| Center for Nonverbal Studies |
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| Center for Spatially Organized Social Sciences |
superb Web site offering a place for anyone who wishs to learn about this area of social science |
| Center on Budget and Policy Priorities |
data and image intensive can make the site slow loading |
| ChildSTATS.gov: America's Children 2009 |
Indicators of Well-Being |
| Classics in the History of Psychology |
uses an internal Google search mechanism for finding site information |
| Cognitive Science: Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy |
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| Cognitive Science: AI Magazine |
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| Criminal Justice Links |
Florida State University |
| Diseases of the Mind: Highlights of American Psychiatry through 1900 |
A permanent online exhibit from the National Library of Medicine; gives a concise overview of pre-20th-century US psychiatry. |
| ECAI: Electronic Cultural Atlas Initiative |
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| Encyclopedia of Psychology |
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| ETOH: Alcohol and Alcohol Problems Science Database |
National Institute on Alcohol Abuse and Alcoholism; .gov |
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Everyday Sociology Blog |
looks at current events and contemporary issues from a sociologist's point of view; contributers are experienced sociology professors from several academic institutions in the US |
| Feminist Theory Website |
5,425 bibliographical entries, 593 links to internet sites; 684 paragraphs giving information, hosted by Virginia Tech University |
| Global Demography of Aging |
Harvard School of Public Health; the site is intended as a research portal on this issue |
| Global System for Sustainable Development |
MIT |
| Health and Age.com |
Note this is a .com site; the business aspect is not overly intrusive but should be borne in mind; most appropriate for quick reference and summary information |
| The History of Psychology |
site indexes by name and by birth decade, beginning with Heraclitus (c.540-480 BCE) and ending with Stanley Milgram (1933-1984). |
| HIV/AIDS Surveillance Reports |
CDC; easy-to-use; authoritative but not rapidly updated |
| InfoNation |
United Nations statistics; contains geographical, economic, demographic, and social indicators for all 185 UN members |
| Institute for Research on Poverty |
University of Wisconsin |
| Internet Psychology Lab |
originally University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, now Pacific Development and Technology |
| International Women's Health Coalition |
sub-titled: A Just and Health Life: Every Woman's Right |
| Institute for Research on Poverty |
University of Wisconsin |
| Institute for Social Research |
Social Sciences in the Public Interest |
| intute: Social Sciences |
in particular see :
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| ISS: International Institute of Social Studies |
Netherlands |
| Kinsey Institute for Research in Sex, Gender, and Reproduction |
well-designed site |
| Mediamosaic Library: Psychology: The Great Schools |
Stanford University, and Smithsonian Center for Lifelong Learning |
| Migration Information Source |
scholarly and information rich |
| National Association of Counties |
NACo; of particular interest is the County Resource Center |
| National Association of School Psychologists |
web site primarily aimed at members; The Families subsection, seems to target families rather than provide information about families, but has the most free content. |
| National Council of State Legislatures |
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| National Institute of Mental Health |
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| NationalIssues.com |
Site creators are public relations, think tank, and political operatives in Georgia. Intended as a quick digest (i.e. not in-depth analyses) of information on public policy issues, such as gun control, taxes, social security |
| National Library of Medicine's MedLINEplus |
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| National Survey of America's Families |
now archived at the ICPSR site; data freely available but not currently updated |
| Penn Center for Bioethics |
The Center's mission is to "promote scholarly and public understanding of the ethical, legal, social and public policy implications of advances in the life sciences and medicine." The site features the online Penn Bioethics Newsletter, searchable from 1995 to the present; recent newsletter articles address such topics as universal health care, dementia and the voting process, and so on. |
| The Personality Project |
Northwestern U.; not frequently updated, but basic information is pertinent |
| Pew Global Attitudes Project |
issued 21 reports, the most recent in July of 2009; has interviewed more than 100,000 people in 50 countries; reports are on the US image abroad, computer use, democratic values, religiosity, and other areas |
| Polling Report.com |
This Internet vehicle for the magazine The Polling Report gives undergraduates, teachers, and researchers alike easy access to a timely, high quality cross-section of poll data on topics of national political, economic, and sociocultural interest. |
| Population Reference Bureau |
offers 18,000 online full text documents under 30 subject resource guides |
| Population Index on the Web |
Princeton; provides a searchable and browseable database containing 46,035 abstracts of demographic literature published in Population Index in the period 1986-2000 |
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Population Profile of the United States: Census 2000 |
see also a variety of recent
pdf publications from the U.S. Census Bureau |
| Psychology Virtual Library |
Stress Virtual Library
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| PsycCentral |
by Dr. John M. Grohol; one of the oldest (14 years) and most reliable psychology sources on the Internet |
| PsychScholar: A Collection of Web Resources |
an excellent no nonsense gateway that will take those interested in psychology to a wide variety of Internet sources |
| PsychSite |
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| PsychWeb |
created by Dr. Russell A. Dewey; sub-divisions include, Psychology of Religion, Introduction to Psychology, Self-Help Resources, Sport Psychology and numerous links to scholarly psychology resources on the web |
| Tests and Measurements in Psychology |
a list of annotated links from the Encyclopedia of Psychology |
| Roper Center: Public Opinion Archives |
University of Connecticut; unique resource providing access to more than 15,000 survey files |
| Social Gerontology & the Aging Revolution |
Trinity University; |
| Social Psychology Network |
more than 15,000 links to related areas |
| The SocioLog: Julian Dierkes'
Comprehensive Guide to Sociology On-Line |
provides a search engine to navigate the site |
| SocioSite |
sub-titled: Social Science Information System based at the
University of Amsterdam |
| SocioWeb |
Independent Guide to Sociological Resources on the Internet |
| A Sociological Tour through Cyberspace |
Trinity University; states that it is updated daily |
| Sociology Virtual Library |
Social Sciences Virtual Library |
| Texas State Board of Examiners of Psychologists |
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| UN-HCR: The UN Refugee Agency |
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Wal-Mart Reports--in pdf format; downloadable only
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| Web Center for Social Research Methods |
Cornell; well-designed, searchable site focused on applied social research |
| Web Interface for Statistics Education (WISE) |
Claremont University; 9 tutorials and related applets simulating and exploring various statistical concepts. |
| Weberian Sociology of Religion |
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