WWW Virtual Library: Sociology Databases and Archives

• Australian Social Sciences Data Archives
• Danish Data Archives: General Sociology
• Data Liberation Initiative (Statistics Canada data files and databases)
• Data Resources for Sociologists (Amercian Sociological Association)
• Council of European Social Sciences Data Archives (CESSDA) ("promotes the acquisition, archiving and distribution of electronic data for social science teaching and research in Europe.")
• Essex Data Archive ("largest collection of accessible computer-readable data in the social sciences and humanities in the United Kingdom")
• Gallop Organization
• Indicators of Social Justice (General Social Survey Data Prepared for Use in Teaching and Research; data organized into theoretically-relevant social justice categories in cultural, political, family, and economic domains; AMINSO, Fresh Meadows, New York, USA)
• International Archive of Education Data (United States National Center for Education Statistics and Inter-University Consortium for Political and Social Research)
• Inter-university Consortium for Political and Social Research (ICPSR) (archive of computerized social sciences data, resources and training at University of Michigan)
• Israeli Social Sciences Data Archives
• Manchester Information DataSets and Associated Services (MIDAS) ("on-line provision of strategic research and teaching datasets, software packages, training and large-scale computing resources for the UK academic community")
• National Center for Education Statistics (United States agency for collection education statistics on USA and other countries)
• National Center for Health Statistics (United States' Federal Government's principal vital and health statistics agency)
• New Zealand Social Science Research Data and Information Services Centre
• North American Social Sciences Data Archives (Clickable map to archives in United States and Canada)
• Open Society Archives (Human rights, communism and the Cold War) (Central European University)
• REGARD  (searchable bibliographic database containing in-depth information on UK social science research).
• SIDOS (Swiss information and data archive service for the social sciences, Neuchâtel)
• Social Indicators of Development (World Bank)
• Social Sciences Data Collection (mostly United States; health; political; census; education; economic; public opinion; etc) (University of California, San Diego)
• Social Science Gophers (Coombs index to "leading information facilities in the field of social sciences and humanities world-wide" at Australian National University)
• Sociological Data Archive (Institute of Sociology, Academy of Sciences of the Czech Republic) (in Éesky and English)
• Social Science Electronic Data Library (six data libraries in aids/std, disability, american family, adolescent pregnancy, aging, and maternal drug abuse) (Sociometrics Corporation, California, USA)
• South African Data Archive
• Statistical Resources on the Web Sociology (University of Michigan Documents Center)
• Statistics Canada // DLI // Gopher // Online Statistics
• United States Bureau of the Census
• World Systems Archives Gopher

Please send e-mail to Carl Cuneo if you would like to add a database or archive to the list above.

This list is maintained by Carl Cuneo
Last updated: Sunday, October 1st, 2000

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