Web Sites - Social Sciences

 

Social Science - General Sites Applied Psychology Business and Management Community and Youth Studies Economics

Information Technology Law Politics Social Work Statistics

 

Social Sciences - General Sites

Internet for Social Work and Internet Sociologist : "teach yourself" tutorials on internet information skills for social workers and sociologists

• Intute: free online service providing you with access to the very best Web resources for education and research.

• BUBL LINK: Social Sciences: catalogue of internet resources

• BUBL UK directory of UK organisations and institutions

• Charities A - Z listing

• The Data Archive from the University of Essex houses computer readable datasets which may be ordered for social research and teaching purposes

• ESRC: Research Guide to the Social Sciences: "a range of resources set up specifically to meet the needs of those working and studying in the social sciences". It includes bibliographic, reference and research information; publications; subject gateways; data services and a training section.

• Housing in England 2003/04: - Part 4: Households in deprived areas and other topics

• Joseph Rowntree Foundation: "UK's largest independent social policy research and development charity"

• Online Dictionary of the Social Sciences

• PORTAL: the British Academy's directory of online resources in the humanities and social sciences. It is designed as an entry point to available resources for those working in higher education and research.

• REGARD a database that provides a key source of information on ESRC (Economics & Social Research Council) social science research awards and products, including books, journal articles, broadcasts, and software

• Resource Guide for the Social Sciences: a range of resources set up specifically to meet the needs of those working and studying in the social sciences. Inlcudes links to Bibliographic, reference and research information; Publications Online; Subject gateways and Data services

• Social Policy Research Unit

• UK Data Archive: a specialist national resource containing the largest collection of accessible computer readable data in the social sciences and humanities in the United Kingdom.

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Applied Psychology

Internet Psychologist: a "teach yourself" tutorial on internet information skills for psychologists

• BUBL Catalogue of Internet Resources for Applied Psychology

• British Psychological Society

• Electronic journals and periodicals in Psychology

• Psychcrawler

• Psychnet UK: mental health and psychology directory

• Psychweb: a psychology portal designed to provide secure email and links to pertinent psychology web sites on the net

• Psychology web sites: from Hanover College

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Business and Management

Internet Business Manager: a "teach yourself" tutorial on internet information skills for business managers.

• The Business Eccountant: Business News for Students

• Sheila Webber's 'Business Information Sources on the Internet'

• Confederation of British Industry

• Department of Trade and Industry

• Inland Revenue: plenty of information on tax and national insurance, including copies of forms to print out

• Dun and Bradstreet : featuring their free directory of over 1.8 million UK businesses

• UK Company Researcher: "a comprehensive set of links to sites providing company information, regional and industry sources and an increasing number of company websites."

• FTSE 100: the web sites of the FTSE 100 companies

• Company Annual Reports Online (CAROL): annual reports for selected companies

• CorporateInformation.com: allows you to search for sites and directories with information about a specific company; to see a list of company sources related to a particular country; and to view relevant links for selected industries in specific countries.

• British Companies: arranged by product/service

• Institute of Economic Affairs

• BBC Business News

• Business and Financial News

• NewsNow: business news service, updated frequently during the day

• Kelly's Business Directory

• Thompsons Business Directory

• Biz/Ed (Business Education on the Net)

• Internet Business Library : links to Internet Resources in Business and Economics

• RRojas Databank - Economic development and growth

• Brint Institute large collection of free resources for business, technology, and knowledge management

• BNet Business on the Internet a knowledge base of business management on the Internet (Free access for students, but individual registration required)

• Motley Fool UK: a personal finance site, covering shares and investing, including articles on company analysis, suggested portfolios, market news, portfolio tracker, glossary of financial terms

• Virtual Finance Library:"striving to develop a one-stop-shop for financial information."

• MORI Market Research

• Nielsen Media Research

• NOP Market Research

• International Monetary Fund

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Community and Youth Studies

• Community Development Foundation CDF works directly in and with the community; providing and communicating findings and examples of best practice; feeding 'hands on' experience and knowledge into new programmes and policy proposals

• infed: "explore informal education and lifelong learning"

• Lancashire County Council information and contacts for the locality

• Manchester Community Information Network MyManchester is a good example of an online community information initiative

• National Institute on Drug Abuse: US government body. Information on drug abuse and statistics.

• National Youth Agency NYA works to improve and extend youth services; enhance and demonstrate youth participation in society; to promote effective youth policy and provision

Economics

• WebEc: web resources on Economics

• WWW Virtual Library: Economics

 

Information Technology

• Association for Computing Machinery

• British Computer Society

• BUBL Link Information Technology sites

• BUBL Link Mathematics and Computing sites

• e-Government Unit : government information technology initiatives

• EEVL: internet guide to Engineering, Mathematics and Computing

• European Union Information Society

• FOLDOC: free on-line dictionary of computing

• informIT: books, articles, reference guides

• The Institution of Electrical Engineers

• International Federation for Information Processing

• JANET: the UK's education and research network

• Office of the e-Envoy

• Tony Greenwood's web links

• UK Academy for Information Systems

• Virtual Computer Library: from the University of Texas at Austin

• W3Schools: free full web building tutorials

 

Law

• UK Legislation: including the full text of Acts from 1996

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Politics

• ABC of the European Union: basic information about the European Union and links to more detailed information

• British Official Publications Current Awareness Service an index to the latest Government papers

• British Politics page

• European Union websites

• Local Government directory of UK local governments

• Open Government UK provides a first entry point to UK public sector information on the Internet

• Political Resources on the Net: "listings of political sites available on the Internet sorted by country, with links to Parties, Organizations, Governments, Media and more from all around the world "

• Progress of Nations 1999 (UNICEF)

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Social Work

• Internet Social Worker: a "teach yourself" tutorial on internet information skills for social workers

• CAIPE : The UK centre for the advancement of Interprofessional Education.

• Centre for Evidence Based Social Services

• Centre for Human Service Technology: a research, development and service centre for social work

• Charities A - Z listing

• Commission for Social Care Inspection

• Community Development Foundation CDF works directly in and with the community; providing and communicating findings and examples of best practice; feeding 'hands on' experience and knowledge into new programmes and policy proposals

• General Social Care Council is the social care workforce regulator. It registers social care workers and regulates their conduct and training.

• Health and Social Care Information Centre: "works to co-ordinate and streamline the collection and sharing of data about health and adult social care"

• Health and Social Care Research Unit for South East Wales - Fosters collaborative research in health and social care.

• National Institute on Drug Abuse: US government body. Information on drug abuse and statistics.

• National Statistics: the UK's home of official statistics, reflecting Britain's economy, population and society at national and local level.

• National Youth Agency NYA works to improve and extend youth services; enhance and demonstrate youth participation in society; to promote effective youth policy and provision

• Social Care: from the Department of Health

• Social Care Association

• Social Care Institute for Excellence - Publicises knowledge about how to make social care services better.

• Social Care Online - access the UK's most complete range of information and research on all aspects of social care - for free. With new content added daily by SCIE's experienced information professionals, you can find information about all aspects of social care, from fostering, to mental health, to human resources and much, much more.

• Social Policy Research Unit

• SOSIG: Social Science Information Gateway. "SOSIG can help you locate high quality sites on the Internet, which are relevant to social science education and research."

• UK Legislation: including the full text of Acts from 1996

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Statistics

• National Statistics: the UK's home of official statistics, reflecting Britain's economy, population and society at national and local level.

• Regional Trends: a comprehensive annual source of official statistics. It includes a wide range of demographic, social, industrial and economic statistics, covering aspects of life in the UK.

• Research Development and Statistics website from the Home Office. Full-text of Statistical Bulletins and Research Findings.

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