Social Science Research Resources

Contents

• Citing Internet Resources
• Online Courses and Guides
• Summer Programs in Data Analysis
• Social Science Research Centers

Citing Internet Resources

• MLA-Style Citations of Electronic Sources
• Beyond the MLA Handbook
  A discussion of the above document with further clarifications.
• Electronic Sources: APA Style of Citation
  Style Sheet
• Web Extension to American Psychological Association Style (WEAPAS)
  Official Proposed expansion of the APA Style Manual
• APA Publication Manual Crib Sheet
  Skip directly to section referencing Online Materials.
• Citing Electronic Sources (Purdue University Writing Lab)
  Contains brief descriptions of both MLA and APA styles.
• ASCII citation of electronic documents
• Citing electronic information in history papers

Other indexes:

• Field Guide to Sources On, About and On the Internet: Citation Formats.
• Bibliography for Beyond the MLA Handbook

Online Courses and Guides

• Political Methodology Research Resources
• Political Methodology section of the APSA
• An on-line course in Graphical Data Analysis (University of Montana)
• A Guide to Statistical Computing Resources on the Internet (University of Michigan)
• Human Subjects/Participants and Research Ethics
• Statistics Computing (University of Southern California)
• WebEc: WWW Resources in Economics

Instructional Programs in Data Analysis

• Centre for Applied Social Surveys Course Programme
• Essex Summer School in Social Science Data Analysis & Collection (6 July - 15 August, 1998)
• ICPSR Summer Program in Quantitative Methods of Social Research (June 23-July 18, July 21-August 15, 1997)

Social Science Research Centers

• Centre for Research into Elections and Social Trends (CREST)
  Elections are the cornerstone of democracy. So it is vital to know and why people vote as they do, and in particular when and why they change how they vote. The Centre for Research into Elections and Social Trends (CREST) was set up to investigate these vital questions by monitoring trends in social and political attitudes at an individual, national and international level.
• Harvard Data Center
• Institute for Social Research, University of Michigan
• Laboratory for High-Energy Social Science Computing, University of California, Riverside
• Population Studies Center - University of Michigan
  The Center is an interdisciplinary collection of independent population researchers who pursue their own research activities with the support of the PSC core units.
• Rand Corporation
• The Roper Center for Public Opinion Research
• Social Research Laboratory, Northern Arizona University
• Social Science Computing, University of Pennsylvania
• Social Sciences Data Center , University of Virginia
• Social Science Data Lab, University of Colorado at Boulder
• Social Science Data Service, University of California, Davis
• Social Science & Public Policy Computing Center (SSPPCC), University of Chicago
• Sociometrics Corporation
  A research and development firm specializing in social science research applications.
• Survey Research Center, Princeton University
  Newly redesigned in the Fall of 1996.
• The Urban Institute

Last Modified: April 1, 1997

Department of Political Science, University of Colorado at Boulder
Department of Sociology, University of Colorado at Boulder
Social Science Data Lab, University of Colorado at Boulder

jahayes@colorado.edu
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