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View Resource CESSDA: Council of European Social Science Data Catalogue

The Council of European Social Science Data Archives (CESSDA) facilitates the distribution of electronic data for social science education and research in Europe. CESSDA promotes data sharing by providing the Integrated Data Catalogue (IDC) at its Website. The multilingual IDC allows users to conduct a broadcast search of up to eleven social science data catalogs located all over the world,...

https://www.cessda.eu/
View Resource Online Dictionary of the Social Sciences

From "aboriginal peoples" to "xenophobia," the Online Dictionary of the Social Sciences provides concise definitions for approximately 1,000 entries. Disciplines covered include sociology, criminology, political science, and women's studies with a particular focus on Canadian examples, events, and names. The project is the online version of a dictionary created by Gary Parkinson and Robert...

https://bitbucket.icaap.org/dict.pl
View Resource The Data Archive

The University of Essex hosts "the largest collection of accessible computer-readable data in the social sciences and humanities in the United Kingdom," housing over 7000 datasets of information for secondary research in a variety of disciplines. Users can search the catalog and indexes by subject or keyword using the BIRON (Information Retrieval On-line) system or its associated thesarus, HASSET...

https://www.data-archive.ac.uk/
View Resource VoS: Voice of the Shuttle

"Woven" by Professor Alan Liu of the University of California-Santa Barbara, the Voice of the Shuttle is a comprehensive, well organized meta-site with pointers to all areas of the humanities. Whether interested in the most basic General Humanities Resources or specialized disciplines such as Postindustrial Business Theory, those pursuing humanities research on the net will likely find the...

http://vos.ucsb.edu/