SAGE Research Methods Online (SRMO)

Posted by Celia Walter | 26 Jan, 2012
SAGE Research Methods Online (SRMO): "the essential tool for researchers". UCT access is active at http://srmo.sagepub.com/ . A link has been added to the resource from the Library's Databases list. Access via EZProxy has been set up. SRMO has been activated on SFX which means that the content should be findable via Primo within a couple of days.

SAGE Research Methods Online (SRMO) is an award-winning tool designed to help you create research projects and understand the methods behind them.  SRMO's taxonomy of over 1,400 methods terms links to authoritative content, including:

  - Over 600 books
  - Dictionaries, encyclopedias, and handbooks
  - The entire "Little Green Book" and "Little Blue Book" series
  - Two major works collating a selection of journal articles
  - Newly commissioned videos

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National Academies Press [USA] Free downloads

Posted by Celia Walter | 3 Jun, 2011
The National Academies Press has made available free downloads of all pdf versions of books published by them.
 
Here's the link to their webpage http://www.nap.edu/ with links to Topics, which include

Behavioral and Social Sciences  http://www.nap.edu/topics.php?topic=277
 
Thanks to my colleague, Ingrid Thomson, for this information.
 

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Impact of Social Sciences Blog

Posted by Celia Walter | 8 Apr, 2011

Welcome to the Impact of Social Sciences blog, a joint project between the LSE, Imperial College, and the University of Leeds that seeks to provide a forum for academics, researchers, and others interested in increasing the impact of social science research on government and policymaking, business and civil society. The blog will also be the main site for disseminating our research findings and a nine chapter Handbook for academics on maximizing the impact of their research. The blog is updated daily with news articles and event notices as well as longer comment pieces written by academics and those interested in impact in the UK and abroad. http://blogs.lse.ac.uk/impactofsocialsciences/

We invite comments, posts, articles, event notices, and research materials from people interested in the impacts debate; please contact the team at impactofsocialsciences@lse.ac.uk for more information.

 

Some recent posts:

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socialsciencespace

Posted by Celia Walter | 13 Jan, 2011

socialsciencespace brings together social scientists to explore, share and shape the big issues in social science. From funding to impact, this online social network contains blog articles from key players in social science, a forum to share discussion, as well as funding and job opportunities, and a resource centre with free videos, reports and slides that support these discussions. Brought to you by:

  • SAGE Publications
    In association with:
  • ALISS
    Academy of Social Sciences
    British Sociological Association
    Manchester e Research Centre
    SRA

 

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Knowledge divides : World Social Science Report, 2010. International Social Science Council (UNESCO)

Posted by Celia Walter | 9 Nov, 2010

...The Report reaffirms UNESCO’s commitment to the social sciences, and our desire to set a new global agenda to promote them as an invaluable tool for the advancement of the internationally agreed development goals. UNESCO, with its emphasis on the management of social transformation, is concerned that the social sciences should be put to use to improve human well-being and to respond to global challenges. As long ago as 1974, UNESCO’s General Conference adopted a Recommendation on the Status of Scientific Researchers which emphasized ’the need to apply science and technology in a great variety of specific fields of wider than national concern: namely such vast and complex problems as the preservation of international peace and the elimination of want’.

Today, the social sciences bring greater clarity to our understanding of how human populations interact with one another, and, by extension, with the environment. The ideas and information they generate can therefore make a precious contribution to the formulation of effective policies to shape our world for the greater good.

Yet, social scientific knowledge is at risk in the parts of the world where it is most needed. The huge disparities in research capacities across countries and the fragmentation of knowledge hamper the capacity of social sciences to respond to the challenges of today and tomorrow. While we may be building a ’knowledge society‘, it is one that looks very different depending on one’s regional perspective. Social scientists produce work of outstanding quality and tremendous practical value, but, as this Report illustrates, social scientific knowledge is often the least developed in those parts of the world where it is most keenly needed – hence this publication’s title, ’Knowledge Divides’.

Global divides reproduce themselves in each generation, in our institutions and in our methods of creating and using knowledge. Global divides affect all indicators of human development, hampering the accumulation, transmission and use of knowledge in our societies, to the detriment of equitable development. Consider the world’s one billion poorest who live on less than US$1.25 per day. There is a consensus that their lot should urgently be improved but why do well intentioned policies so often produce so little? We may, perhaps, need better intentions; we certainly need better and more accessible knowledge that can provide policies with the evidence that they need to make a difference.

Social scientific endeavour is also poorer for its bias towards English and English-speaking developed countries. This is a missed opportunity to explore perspectives and paradigms that are embedded in other cultural and linguistic traditions. A more culturally and linguistically diverse approach by the social sciences would be of tremendous value to organizations such as UNESCO in our efforts to foster mutual understanding and intercultural dialogue. From Docuticker.com

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The state of social science in sub-Saharan Africa / Johann Mouton

Posted by Celia Walter | 28 Sep, 2010
Abstract:
The social sciences in sub-Saharan Africa continue to operate under conditions that are seriously under-resourced. The fact that there is still sustained and vibrant social sciences research in countries which, with a few exceptions, have little government support, poor institutional facilities and many other challenges says a great deal about the resilience and resolve of the scholars concerned.

In : The 2010 World Social Science report released by United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO) focuses on the Knowledge Divide. It emphasizes the key role played by knowledge in social development, the disparities in research capacities across countries and the fragmentation of knowledge that hamper the capacity of the social sciences to respond to the challenges of today and tomorrow.

The report is available in English: http://unesdoc.unesco.org/images/0018/001883/188333e.pdf

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2010 World Social Science report. UNESCO

Posted by Celia Walter | 28 Sep, 2010

The 2010 World Social Science report released by United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO) focuses on the Knowledge Divide. It emphasizes the key role played by knowledge in social development, the disparities in research capacities across countries and the fragmentation of knowledge that hamper the capacity of the social sciences to respond to the challenges of today and tomorrow.

The report is available in English.

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“Knowledge divides” : World Social Science Report 2010

Posted by Celia Walter | 5 Jul, 2010
Social science from Western countries continues to have the greatest global influence, but the field is expanding rapidly in Asia and Latin America, particularly in China and Brazil. In sub-Saharan Africa, social scientists from South Africa, Nigeria and Kenya produce 75% of academic publications. In South Asia, barring some centres of excellence in India, social sciences as a whole have low priority. These are a few of the findings from World Social Science Report, 2010: “Knowledge divides”.

Produced by the International Social Science Council (ISSC) and co-published with UNESCO, the Report is the first comprehensive overview of the field in over a decade. Hundreds of social scientists from around the world contributed their expertise to the publication. Gudmund Hernes, President of the ISSC, Adebayo Olukoshi, Director of the United Nations African Institute for Economic Development and Planning (IDEP), Hebe Vessuri, Director, Venezuelan Institute for Scientific Research (IVIC), and François Héran, Director of Research, National Institute for Demographic Studies (INED), France, are among the experts who presented the Report during its official launch at UNESCO Headquarters in Paris on 25 June 2010.

Executive Summary [PDF, 1.6 MB]

The full report [PDF, 11 MB]

Foreword – Irina Bokova (Director-General of UNESCO)

Foreword – Pierre Sané (Assistant Director-General for Social and Human Sciences)

Preface – Gudmund Hernes (President, International Social Science Council)

Acknowledgments

Contents

General introduction (Françoise Caillods and Laurent Jeanpierre)

Chapters

1. Social sciences facing the world
1.1 Social sciences and global challenges
1.2 The view from the regions

2. The institutional geography of social science

3. Unequal capacities
3.1 Dimensions of capacities in social sciences
3.2 Marketization of research
3.3 Brain drain or brain circulation?
3.4 Overcoming the capacity divide

4. Uneven internationalization

5. Homogenizing or pluralizing social sciences?
5.1 Hegemonies and counter-hegemonies
5.2 Tensions between global and local knowledge in practice

6. Disciplinary territories
6.1 Disciplines and their divides
6.2 Crossing disciplinary borders
6.3. Regional variations

7. Competing in the knowledge society
7.1 Global rankings
7.2 Assessment and evaluation of research
7.3 Project funding and agenda-setting

8. Disseminating social sciences
8.1 Social sciences, education and society
8.2 Diffusing and accessing social science knowledge

9. Social sciences and policy-makers
9.1 The political use and abuse of social sciences
9.2 Evidence-based decision-making 9.3 Knowledge brokers and think-tanks

10. Conclusions and future lines of action

  • Persistent disparities in research capacities
  • Knowledge fragmentation: one social science? Disciplines apart? Worlds apart?
  • Knowledge gaps on the state of the social sciences worldwide
  • Directions for future action

Annexes
Annex 1. Basic statistics on the production of social sciences
Annex 2. Bibliographical databases and repositories
Annex 3. Supplementary figures and tables

List of abbreviations
Index

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DOAJ Humanities and Social Science Journals

Posted by Celia Walter | 4 Feb, 2010
A new study showed that 78% of the social science and humanities journals listed in the DOAJ are not indexed in any of five major SSH journal indices:  the Arts and Humanities Citation Index (AHCI), Social Science Citation Index (SSCI), Scopus, European Reference Index for Humanities (ERIH), and Agence pour l’Evaluation de la Recherche et de l’Enseignement Supérieur (AERES).
http://www.cybergeo.eu/index22862.html

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Critical Theory Institute, UC, Irvine

Posted by Celia Walter | 5 Jan, 2010
The Critical Theory Institute at University of California, Irvine is an interdisciplinary research unit comprised of members "from various departments in the Humanities and Social Sciences" who collaborate on research projects in critical theory "that are addressed for three to four year periods through organized discussions of pertinent theoretical work and specific events such as the Irvine Lectures in Critical Theory series". The Institute also sponsors the Wellek Library Lecture Series and bibliographies prepared for lecture series speakers can be accesed from the site. There is publication and event information and links to the Institute's online resources which includes a catalogue of audio and video recordings and the Jacques Derrida Papers. http://www.humanities.uci.edu/critical/
From Intute.ac.uk

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International Journal of Transdisciplinary Research

Posted by Celia Walter | 29 Jun, 2009
International journal of transdisciplinary research
The International Journal of Transdisciplinary Research is a peer reviewed academic journal that is concerned with extending and integrating the study of economics with disciplines within the natural and social sciences, as well as the humanities. As economics is intertwined in almost every field of research, it takes a transdisciplinary approach. It covers issues such as: sustainability, social multicriteria evaluations, ecological economics and the biophysical foundations of economics, systems research, and complexity and post normal science. It also includes articles from fields other than economics on how economic systems really work. Articles are freely available as PDF downloads with an archive of past issues.From Intute.ac.uk
http://www.ijtr.org/

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Durkheim Pages

Posted by Celia Walter | 17 May, 2009
Durkheim Pages
A series of Web pages devoted to the French sociologist and philosopher, Emile Durkheim (1858-1917). They have been prepared and are maintained by Robert Alun Jones, Professor of Religious Studies, History and Sociology at the University of Illinois in Urbana-Champaign, working in conjunction with the British Centre for Durkheimian Studies at Oxford University and the Advanced Information Technologies Laboratory at the University of Illinois. The site includes a biography, a chronology, a complete bibliography of Durkheim's published works, and a glossary of terms and concepts important to the understanding of Durkheim's works. From Intute.ac.uk
http://durkheim.uchicago.edu/

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Innovation: The European Journal of Social Science Research

Posted by Celia Walter | 14 Mar, 2009
Innovation: The European Journal of Social Science Research
Innovation: The European Journal of Social Science Research is a quarterly journal published by Routledge in association with the Interdisciplinary Centre for Comparative Research in the Social Sciences. Articles focus on "all aspects of European developments that contribute to the improvement of social science knowledge and to the setting of a policy-focused European research agenda". Topics include multilevel governance; sustainability and ecological modernisation; and science, research, technology and society. From Intute.ac.uk
http://www.tandf.co.uk/journals/carfax/13511610.html

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SciTopics: experts summarise scientific topics; with links to journal articles and web sites. Updated

Posted by Celia Walter | 22 Jan, 2009

SciTopicsSciTopics is a free, wiki-like service for the scientific community, where scientific experts summarize specific scientific topics, and where links to the latest, most relevant journal literature and web sources are presented on one page. There are also lots of RSS Feeds. From Elsevier.

And a review in InfoToday

From Peter Scott's Library blog

 

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Fathom Archive : free online educational resources in the sciences and social sciences

Posted by Celia Walter | 15 Jan, 2009
Fathom Archive
Fathom was an international consortium of universities headed by the University of Chicago and including the London School, of Economics (LSE). From 2000-2003 it created a collection of free online educational resources covering subject areas from the sciences and social sciences. Since 2003 (when the project closed) new materials have not been added. However, the archive site enables users to read the archive of online academic papers, interviews and lectures. It includes audio and video files. Topics covered include global international political and economic relations, civil rights, technology and society. The site can be browsed. Technical and copyright information is displayed. From: Intute.ac.uk
http://fathom.lib.uchicago.edu/

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