Cross-national income database
Luxembourg Income Database (LIS) http://www.lisdatacenter.org/ This data service includes household and person-level micro data on income, demography, employment, and expenditures from countries all over the world, many from 1968 onwards. Browse by country. Free registration required for access. The site also includes working papers. http://www.lisdatacenter.org/lis-wp-webapp/app/search-workingpapers These cover topics relating to income employment, poverty many based on […]
United Nations Monthly Bulletin of Statistics
2000 onwards free online: http://unstats.un.org/unsd/mbs/app/mbssearch2.aspx Covering more than 200 nations worldwide, this service offers a quick snapshot of over 100 major economic and social indicators. Remember that access to the main UN series of data (United Nations sources) via their UNData website. Browse country files, see the full list of databases and get news on […]
New labour standards database from ILO
http://www.ilo.org/dyn/normlex/ NORMEX information System on International Labour Standards. Includes conventions, protocols and recommendations relating to international labour law. Get text ratifications by country. The site also offers links to NATLEX national labour legislation for hundreds of nations worldwide. http://www.ilo.org/dyn/natlex/natlex_browse.home
International Encyclopedia of the Social and Behavioral Sciences
We now have access to the International Encyclopedia of the Social and Behavioral Sciences. Over 4,000 articles from leading authors in your field. Have a look at the encyclopedia here: http://ezproxy.lib.le.ac.uk/login?url=http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/referenceworks/9780080430768 Or you will find the encyclopedia by searching the library catalogue.
Research from South Asia
http://www.esocialsciences.com/blog/index.asp A social sciences portal produced by south Asian scholars to promote research from India and the South Asian continent. Free registration required to access some aspects. Include links to events, working papers, and a good starting point for finding materials. Other useful sites relating to India include: Vidyanidhi, E-scholarship portal and Digital library which […]
International Labour Organisation publications
Resource guides produced by the ILO Library in Geneva provide guidance and direct links to key documents statistics and websites. http://www.ilo.org/public/english/support/lib/resource/guide.htm Topics covered include child labour, disability, gender equality, microfinance and the informal economy. The ILO also has a number of other excellent free sites for those interested in work related issues. These include the ILO […]
Monitoring poverty and social exclusion 2011
http://www.jrf.org.uk/publications/monitoring-poverty-2011 This annual report published by the Joseph Rowntree Foundation and the New Policy Institute uses 50 indicators to consider levels of poverty in the UK. This year it also considers the impact of coalition policies. Topics covered include: child poverty, poverty in old age, the unemployed and poverty, housing, fuel poverty and household debt. […]
Citing datasets
http://www.dcc.ac.uk/news/new-dcc-guide-citing-datasets Download the 12 page guide which will help researchers cite datasets. Topics covered include elements of data citation, challenges involved in citing and linking to datasets associated with research. Produced by the Digital Curation Centre.
Occupy Archive
Another site archiving protest materials. This one http://occupyarchive.org/ , a special project of the Roy Rosenzweig Center for History and New Media at George Mason University, is saving digital evidence and stories from the Occupy protests worldwide that began in September 2011 in Lower Manhattan. This includes archives of websites, personal accounts, photographs and texts. It is possible […]
Occupy Wall Street
http://www.archive.org/details/occupywallstreet The social movement now has a space on the Internet where they are permanently archiving protest materials. There are currently over 175 materials preserved. They include pictures of protests across the USA from activists, audio files of speeches and images of leaflets produced. For instance see the insert designed to deter companies that send […]
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