African Studies Internet Resources - Columbia University Libraries

Virtual library on Africa, affiliated with the World Wide Web Virtual Library project.

http://www.columbia.edu/cu/lweb/indiv/africa/cuvl/

Annuaire critique de sites de santé publique - Réseau BDSP (Banque de Données Santé Publique)

Directory of mainly French and European public health websites although some major international sites are also indexed. A detailed review of each website is provided, much like a database.

http://www.bdsp.tm.fr/Webs/Default.asp

Asian Studies WWW Virtual Library - Research School of Pacific and Asian Studies at The Australian National University ( ANU), Canberra.

Virtual library on Asia, affiliated with the World Wide Virtual Library project.

http://coombs.anu.edu.au/WWWVL-AsianStudies.html

Banque de Données Santé Publique (BDSP) - Réseau BDSP

The BDSP, a French cooperation network established on the initiative of the Direction générale de la santé, provides information on the health status of populations, living conditions and the environment, health institutions and policies, social welfare, medical sociology, ethics and bioethics. Since 1993, the BDSP has provided access to an extensive range of public health information sources: a documentary database, thematic bibliographies, a thesaurus, a multilingual glossary, a conference database and a directory of key websites.

http://www.bdsp.tm.fr/

Bibenligne - Maison Méditerranéenne des Sciences de l'Homme, université d'Aix-en-Provence (MMSH)

Selective directory of humanities and social sciences libraries and documentation centres, dedicated to Mediterranean studies. The digital libraries and electronic periodicals are given special attention. Bibenligne also indexes the portals and thematic databases, along with theses and publisher catalogues.

http://www.bibenligne.org/

CISMeF (Catalog and Index of French-language Health Internet resources) - CHU Hôpitaux de Rouen

Selective directory on health and medical sciences bringing together more than 43,000 French-language information sources. A detailed descriptive entry exists for each link. CISMeF lists library websites, bibliographic databases, journals, bodies and institutions, universities etc. in alphabetical order, by theme or by resource type.

http://www.cismef.org/

DemoNetAsia

Links to different databases; for example on "Population", "Socio-Economic Development", "Migration", "Health and Mortality

http://membres.multimania.fr/demonetasia/links/linksdbases.htm

Ecoline - Urfist de Paris (Unité Régionale de Formation à l'Information Scientifique et Technique )

Selective resource guide to information on economic sciences and management. It includes dictionaries, electronic resources, journals, manuals, online courses, research papers, theses, statistical sources and website listings.

http://urfist.enc.sorbonne.fr/anciensite/Ecoline/Ecoline.html

Economists Online - Nereus consortium

This portal, opened in 2010, presents the academic publications and datasets of scholars in the field of economics. The institutions represented include the London School of Economics and Political Science, Université libre de Bruxelles, Sciences Po, Université Paris-Dauphine and more. Containing over 900,000 bibliographic references, many with links to open access full text, it combines content with RePEc archives to provide a new information service to economists.


http://www.economistsonline.org/home?lang=en

Eldis - Institute of Development Studies, Sussex

Portal to information on development. It provides an increasing number of descriptions and links to electronic information sources, including websites, databases, library catalogues, bibliographies, discussion lists and information on research projects.

http://www.eldis.org/

Elisad gateway

European portal on addiction (drugs, alcohol, smoking, gambling etc.) and associated issues in Europe, including Central and Eastern Europe. It covers 35 countries and 17 languages.

http://www.addictionsinfo.eu/startpage.php?select_lang=eng

Infomine - University of California

Infomine is a portal which indexes academic resources such as databases, journals, e-books, online library catalogues and researcher directories. They are categorized according to subject: humanities & social sciences, business & economics, biological, agricultural & medical sciences etc.

http://infomine.ucr.edu/

INIST (Institut de l'Information Scientifique et Technique)

CNRS scientific and technical information portal. INIST produces two bibliographical databases : FRANCIS (humanities and social sciences) and PASCAL (science, technology and medicine). INIST offers free access to several bibliographical databases: Lara (scientific and technical reports in French), Thésa (ongoing Grandes Ecoles theses), along with a freely accessible online catalogue of scientific journal titles. INIST also provides access to Refdoc, a scientific documentary base, containing over 35 million references of articles, books, reports, theses and conference proceedings from 1847 up to the present day. INIST creates documentary tools such as TermSciences, a multidisciplinary terminological portal as well as an observatory on open access to scientific information.

http://www.inist.fr/

Internet Guide for Chinese Studies - Sinological Institute, Leiden University, Netherlands , Institute of Chinese Studies (Heidelberg University), the Berlin State Library, and the German Research Foundation

Virtual library on China, affiliated with the World Wide Web Virtual Library project.

http://sun.sino.uni-heidelberg.de/igcs/

Intute - Joint Information Systems Committee (JISC), Arts and Humanities Research Council (AHRC), Economic and Social Research Council (ESRC)

British scientific information portal created in July 2006 which derives its origins from the RDN (Resource Discovery Network). It is a one-stop gateway to several major selective thematic directories providing access to high-quality web resources on science and technology, arts and literature, humanities and social sciences, health and life sciences.

http://www.intute.ac.uk/

Intute : Social Sciences

Gateway to humanities and social sciences resources (excluding history): anthropology, economics, education, European studies, human geography, law, sociology, gender etc. The sites fall into eleven categories, which are further sub-divided. Two search options exist for the database: simple and advanced. Each website is described and indexed with key words from an internal thesaurus.

http://www.intute.ac.uk/socialsciences/

Intute : Sociology

Intute/Sociology is one of the sub-categories in the Social Sciences category of Intute, a web resources portal on humanities and social sciences. A description of each site is available and some French language websites are listed.

http://www.intute.ac.uk/socialsciences/sociology/

Isidore - Très Grand Equipement Adonis

Isidore (Intégration de services, interconnexion de données de la recherche et de l'enseignement) is a research platform created in 2010 that provides access to information in the humanities and social sciences. It brings together bibliographic references, metadata and full-text documents from a range of databases, scientific journals and websites. The 745 harvested sources include institutions, academic journal portals (Cairn, Persée, Revues.org), digital libraries and open archive repositories.


http://www.rechercheisidore.fr/

L'Album des sciences sociales - Revues.org

A selective directory of more than 2,000 scientific information sources covering humanities and social sciences in the French-speaking world, and including key international websites. The directory was set up in 1999 and no updates have been done since 2008. All the pages are still online although some links are broken.

http://album.revues.org/

L'économie en 300 sites - Alternatives économiques

A qualitative research guide on economics. The websites are presented and are categorized under 5 themes: macroeconomics, finance, companies and markets, employment and social relations, along with environment and sustainable development.

http://www.alternatives-economiques.fr/sites/index.html

Latin American Network Information Center (LANIC) - University of Texas at Austin

Gateway to information on Latin America which indexes more than 10,000 URLs on social sciences, Latin American countries, regional resources, sustainable development, libraries etc.

http://lanic.utexas.edu/

Liens socio

French language portal on sociology and the social sciences providing access to numerous resources on current events, recent publications, conferences, multimedia etc., along with a directory containing references and descriptions of over 1,500 websites since 2002. Each site is evaluated based on its exhaustiveness, the frequency of updates, whether it provides free access to content and how popular it is.

http://www.liens-socio.org/

Links of interest to demographers - Centre for population studies

Directory of demographic websites providing the URL addresses of research centres, networks, international organizations, website directories, software, journals and databanks, along with a category on ageing.

http://www.lshtm.ac.uk/cps/cpslinks.html

MathDoc - Cellule MathDoc

Mathematics documentation portal, providing access to bibliographical databases, book and periodical catalogues, prepublications, theses, digitized collections and directories.

http://mathdoc.emath.fr/index-en.htm

Neodemos.it

An independent forum created as a joint venture between demography professors and research directors. Neodemos.it is an observatory for analysing population, society and politics. It features commentaries, statistical resources, articles, books and accepts external contributions.

http://www.neodemos.it/

NLM Gateway (National Library of Medicine Gateway) - National Library of Medicine

Portal providing access to the documentary resources of the National Library of Medicine. Users can search several databases simultaneously, including bibliographical databases such as Medline and PubMed.

http://gateway.nlm.nih.gov/gw/Cmd

Noticias - Programa Regional los sobre los Aspectos Sociales de la Reproducción Humana (PRASSAR)

Web resources of the Centro de Estudios de Poblacion (Cenep), on health and reproduction in Latin America.

http://www.cenep.org.ar/prassar/noticias.htm

Openedition - Cléo (Centre for open electronic publishing)

International portal dedicated to electronic resources in the humanities and social sciences. It includes three publication and information platforms: Revues.org (journal and book collections in the humanities and social sciences), Calenda (social sciences calendar for the French-speaking community), and Hypothèses.org (scholarly blogs: discussion, methodology, etc.). It enables the transnational scientific community to work together and to disseminate its work through open access posting of academic documents on the Internet.

 

http://www.openedition.org/

Portail des Maisons des Sciences de l'Homme (MSH) - Réseau des MSH

This gateway presents the national network, composed of 22 MSH. The category "Ressources" provides links to MSH research libraries and documentation centres, along with documentary resources produced by members of the MSH network.

http://www.msh-reseau.fr/

Recherche d'information biomédicale sur Internet - Institut Pasteur

The multimedia library of the Institut Pasteur, in its "Ressources" category, offers a list of databases which can be searched by alphabetical order or by subject, along with useful links to websites accessible by alphabetical order or by category: library catalogues, portals, public health bodies, scientific bodies by country etc.

http://www.pasteur.fr/infosci/biblio/english/

Red de Bibliotecas Virtuales de Ciencias Sociales de América Latina y el Caribe de la Red Clacso - CLACSO (Consejo Latinoamericano de Ciencias Sociales)

Latin American Council of Social Sciences (CLASCO) network of Latin American and Caribbean social sciences virtual libraries, bringing together 259 research centres in 25 countries.

http://www.biblioteca.clacso.edu.ar/lenlaces

REESWeb : The World Wide Web Virtual Library for Russian & East European Studies - Center for Russian & East European Studies, University Center for International Studies, University of Pittsburgh

Virtual library on Russia and Eastern European studies, affiliated with the World Wide Web Virtual Library project.

http://www.ucis.pitt.edu/reesweb/

RePEc (Research Papers in Economics)

This portal, which brings together web resources on economics, is a collaborative effort of volunteers in over 70 countries. It includes databases on working papers, journal articles, software and books, along with author and institution directories. Many documents are provided in full text.

http://repec.org/

Reproductive Health Gateway (RH Gateway)

Database containing about 150 websites on reproductive health.

http://info.k4health.org/RHGateway/index.shtml

Revues.org

Portal providing access to humanities and social sciences journals and covering all associated disciplines: history, political sciences, geography, sociology, philosophy and cognitive psychology.

http://www.revues.org/

RFE (Resources for Economists on the Internet) - American Economic Association

Virtual library on economics, affiliated with the World Wide Web Virtual Library project.

http://www.aeaweb.org/RFE/

RIME (Ressources sur Internet en Management et en Economie) - Association RIME

Rime is now available on Delicious.com, a website for sharing bookmarks. The sites cover economics and management in France and all across the world. Each website is briefly described.

http://delicious.com/association_rime/

Ritimo (Réseau d'information Tiers Monde)

Specialised information network on international solidarity and sustainable development. It provides access to documentation covering major themes in international solidarity and North/South developments: thematic resources, bibliographical databases and teaching tools.

http://www.ritimo.org/

Sante.fr : portail des agences sanitaires - Direction Générale de la Santé

This portal brings together health agencies under the administrative supervision of the Ministry of Health. The primary objective of Sante.fr is to promote the public health information available on the websites of the health agencies (Institut de Veille Sanitaire, Haute Autorité de Santé, Institut National de Prévention et d'Education pour la Santé etc.). It provides access to directories and useful links to associations of centres and research bodies and to European health websites.

http://www.sante.fr/index.html

Signets - Cermes (Centre de ressources et d'information sur les multimédias pour l'enseignement supérieur), et Abes ( Agence bibliographique de l'enseignement supérieur)

This directory provides access to web resources (sites, portals, library catalogues, online journals, blogs etc.) bookmarked by French university libraries and several Cadist (centres for the collection and dissemination of scientific and technical information). The bookmarks fall into eight main categories: social sciences, history and geography, sciences and applied sciences, law etc.

http://www.signets-universites.fr/

Signets de la Bibliothèque nationale de France - Bibliothèque nationale de France (BNF)

Selective directory indexing over 3,400 individually commented bookmarked resources, accessible online and divided into 800 categories. Users can either search by theme or peruse a directory of themes classified in alphabetical order. All web pages are reviewed every two months.

http://signets.bnf.fr/

Signets web - Bibliothèque Interuniversitaire Cujas de droit et de sciences économiques

Web directory covering law, economics and political science in France, Europe and across the world.

http://biu-cujas.univ-paris1.fr/principal/ri/ri.php

Sites d'intérêt démographique - Association des démographes du Québec

Web directory indexing demographic websites which list statistical offices and research centres in Canada, the United States and all over the world, along with the addresses of associations and international bodies.

http://www.demo.umontreal.ca/adq/sites.html

Sites utiles - Ligue des droits de l'homme

This directory of useful websites provides contact information for unions, institutions, associations and other groups working together for the rights of immigrants, nomad populations, the disabled etc.

http://www.ldh-france.org/sites_utiles.cfm

Sites web, bases et revues en ligne - Bibliothèque publique d'information (BPI)

Database which offers search by key word. The documentary resources are divided into thematic categories and sub-categories.

http://www.bpi.fr/recherche_documentaire.jsp

Social Sciences Virtual Library

Virtual library on the social sciences, affiliated with the World Wide Web Library project.

http://www.vl-site.org/sciences/index.html

Sociology in Switzerland - Soziologisches Institut der Universität Zürich

Portal providing access to documentary resources on sociology. Publications and journal articles on sociology, political science and humanities and social sciences are available online.

http://socio.ch/

Sociopôle - Sociopôle, CNRS

Directory of French language resources on sociology. Sociopôle indexes institutional bodies, research units, teaching institutions, professional associations, data banks, conference proceedings, debate proceedings, scientific journals, other directories etc. The general public can contribute to the website although it is administered by specialists. Certified resources are indicated by a yellow band.

http://www.sociopole.cnrs.fr/

SocioSite - University of Amsterdam

This portal, created in 1996, provides access to numerous links classified by theme. It indexes all types of documentary sources worldwide: journals, libraries, data archives, directories, universities, associations, institutions, weblogs, forums etc.

http://www.sociosite.net/index.php

The SocioLog - Julian Dierkes

Personal website which lists American and Canadian research departments and institutes. It also provides links to other portals, associations, journals etc.

http://www.sociolog.com/

The World Wide Web of Demography - Netherlands Interdisciplinary Demographic Institute (NIDI)

This web directory provides access to over 500 demographic websites which fall into five categories: research institutes and bodies, statistical institutes, journals and bibliographical databases, conference and seminar proceedings, demographic models and software.

http://www.nidi.knaw.nl/en/links/

The World Wide Web Virtual Library : Russian History Index - European University Institute’s Library and History & Civilisation Department, Florence, Italie

Virtual library on Russian history, affiliated with the World Wide WebVirtual Library project.

http://vlib.iue.it/hist-russia/Index.html

The World Wide Web Virtual Library : Statistics - The University of Florida's Department of Statistics.

Virtual library on statistics, affiliated with the World Wide Web Virtual Library project.

http://www.stat.ufl.edu/vlib/statistics.html

The WWW Virtual Library - The WWW Virtual Library

The WWW Virtual Library is the oldest catalogue of the web and it was started by Tim Berners-Lee at CERN in Geneva. It is a worldwide project which involves reviewing and indexing scientific websites. It indexes high-quality research guides covering all aspects of pure science and humanities and social sciences.

http://vlib.org/index.en

The WWW Virtual Library : Medicine and Health : Medicine - Child Development Rehabilitation Center, Oregon Health Sciences University.

Virtual library on medicine, affiliated with the World Wide Web Virtual Library project.

http://vlib.org/Medicine.en

The WWW Virtual Library : Urban Environmental Management - The Global Development Research Center

Virtual library on urban environmental management, affiliated with the World Wide Web Virtual Library project.

http://www.gdrc.org/uem/

The WWW Virtual Library: Medicine and Health: Epidemiology - Department of Epidemiology and Biostatistics at the University of California San Francisco

Virtual library on epidemiology, affiliated with the World Wide Web Virtual Library project.

http://www.epibiostat.ucsf.edu/epidem/epidem.html

The WWW Virtual Library: Public Health - School of Public Health and Community Medicine (UNSW)

Virtual library on public health, affiliated with the World Wide Web Virtual Library project.

http://www.sphcm.med.unsw.edu.au/sphcmweb.nsf/page/wwwvlph

Virtual Library on Genetics - U.S. Department of Energy Office of Science, Office of Biological and Environmental Research.

Virtual library on genetics, affiliated with the World Wide Web Virtual Library project.

http://www.ornl.gov/sci/techresources/Human_Genome/genetics.shtml

WebEc (World Wide Web Resources in Economics) - Center for Innovative Education, Helsinki School of Economics, Department of Economics, Faculty of Social Sciences, University of Helsinki, Finlande

Virtual library on economics, affiliated with the World Wide Web Virtual Library project. The guide is still available but has not been updated since May 2007.

http://www.helsinki.fi/WebEc/

WESS (Western European Studies Section) - Association of College and Research Libraries

This portal provides access to historical and contemporary information on Western European countries.

http://wess.lib.byu.edu/index.php/Main_Page

WSSLINKS Women and Gender Studies Web Sites - The Women's Studies Section of the Association of College & Research Libraries / American Library Association

Virtual library on gender, affiliated with the World Wide Web Virtual Library project.

http://libr.org/wss/WSSLinks/index.html

WWW Virtual Library : Sociology - Dept. of Sociology, McMaster University, Hamilton, Ontario, Canada.

Virtual library on sociology, affiliated with the World Wide Web Virtual Library project.

http://socserv2.mcmaster.ca/w3virtsoclib/

WWW Virtual Library Women's History - International Institute of Social History

Virtual library on gender, affiliated with the World Wide Web Virtual Library project.

http://www.iisg.nl/w3vlwomenshistory/

WWW Virtual Library: Anthropology - Anthro TECH

Virtual library on anthropology, affiliated with the World Wide Web Virtual Library project.

http://www.anthropologie.net/

WWW-VL HIistory Central Catalogue - European University Institute, Florence, Italy

Virtual library on history, affiliated with the World Wide Web Virtual Library project.

http://vlib.iue.it/history/index.html