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Useful Sites

Child Poverty Action Group (CPAG) http://www.cpag.org.uk/info/ ERSC Society Today http://www.esrc.ac.uk/ESRCInfoCentre/index.aspx Dead Sociologists' Index http://media.pfeiffer.edu/lridener/DSS/ Joseph Rowntree Foundation http://www.jrf.org.uk/ Resource Discovery Network: virtual training http://www.vts.rdn.ac.uk/ Google scholar http://scholar.google.com/

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Gateways

Intute: Social Sciences (formerly known as SOSIG - The Social Science Information Gateway ) http://www.intute.ac.uk/socialsciences/ BUBL Links - free user-friendly access to selected Internet resources covering Social Sciences http://bubl.ac.uk// European Centre for Social Policy Welfare and Policy http://www.euro.centre.org/ ELDIS - presents development information via the web http://www.eldis.org/ Eurostat - key to European statistics http://epp.eurostat.ec.europa.eu/portal/page/portal/eurostat/home/

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Government Sites

The Government gateway Directgov offers links to central and local government sites and documents http://www.direct.gov.uk/ Home Office http://www.homeoffice.gov.uk/ BOPCRIS: the British Official Publications Collaborative Reader Information Service. Information from official publications from 1688-1995 http://www.southampton.ac.uk/library/bopcris/projects.html Department of Health http://www.dh.gov.uk/ National Statistics Official UK Statistics site http://www.statistics.gov.uk/ Neighbourhood Statistics http://www.neighbourhood.statistics.gov.uk

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Associations

American Sociological Association http://www.asanet.org/ British Sociological Association http://www.britsoc.co.uk/ Social Research Association http://www.the-sra.org.uk/

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Free Electronic Journals

Sociological Research online http://www.socresonline.org.uk/ Also available via library catalogue The Soc journal – a new media journal of sociology and society http://www.sociology.org/

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Newsletters

Sociosite http://www.sociosite.net/

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Dictionaries

Yahoo Directory http://dir.yahoo.com/Social_Science/

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Tutorials

Internet Detective The Internet Detective is a free online tutorial that will help you develop Internet research skills for your coursework & research. The tutorial looks at the critical thinking required when using the Internet for research and offers practical advice on evaluating the quality of web sites.

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Library Services

Sociology & Social Research Library Guide

Catalogue

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  Page last updated : : 31 Aug 2010