Lovers of the humanities and social sciences will find much to appreciate with Palgrave Communications, an open access journal created by the international academic press, Palgrave MacMillan. The journal publishes original research across a variety of disciplines (including business), and welcomes interdisciplinary approaches. On this website, visitors can browse current and archived articles by...

This quarterly newsletter provides extensively annotated listings of new publications, research projects, and institutions involved in social science research in Eastern Europe. The most recent edition includes reviews of and links to online databases for the Living Standards Measurement Study (LSMS) and data from the first four installments of the European New Democracies Barometer. The...

Founded in 1923 (and last reviewed by the Scout Report on November 3, 1998), the Social Science Research Council (SSRC) is an independent non-profit organization with ongoing research projects on every continent, most of which are designed to encourage innovation and to help social scientists engage broader constituencies. Some of the council's key interests include children and armed conflict,...

Provided by Social Science Electronic Publishing (SSEP), this site allows users to freely access thousands of abstracts and full-text research papers. The core of the site is the SSRN Electronic Library, which contains an Abstract Database with over 15,600 entries and an Electronic Paper Collection, which currently contains over 4,200 full-text papers. Users can search title, abstract, and author...

The Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada (SSHRC), a federal research funding agency for higher education in the social sciences and humanities, aims to promote and enrich the social, cultural, and economic lives of Canadians. The expansive SSHRC Website provides information about the structure, people, and mission of the Council; news about current research supported by the...

A number of public policy schools across the world have a working papers series, and quite a few of them offer these documents online at no charge. The Harris School of Public Policy at the University of Chicago has offered their working papers on this site for several years now, and visitors with a penchant for national and international policy issues will probably want to make several return...