AlphaGalileo is designed for science journalists, but anyone with an itch for breaking academic news will enjoy this research-rich site. Readers may browse by region, including Africa, Asia, Caribbean, Europe, Latin America, Middle East, North America, Oceania, and this Scout Editor’s favorite: Extraterrestrial. Next, try trawling the site by Science, Health, Society, Humanities, Arts, Applied...

This journal, dedicated to critical social research, started in 1977 with a small group of dedicated volunteers. Their focus today is on promoting the publication of non-traditional, provocative, and radical analyses that may not find a forum in conventional academic venues. On this site, visitors can view all of their back issues, including special thematic issues such as "Uniting Struggles:...

The University of Wisconsin Data and Program Library Service, which has been providing machine-readable social science data to university researchers for over 30 years, has recently made this data repository available to everyone. At present the site contains 12 studies, including US riot and civil disorder data from 1961-1968, slave movement during the 18th and 19th centuries, the Russian and...

Located on Chicago's South Side, the Center for Research Libraries (CRL) is an international consortium of university, college, and independent research libraries. The CRL was founded in 1949, and since then it has expanded its work to include digital preservation and access projects. Visitors with an interest in the world of information sciences can click on the Archiving & Preservation area to...

Given their affiliation with the United Nations, it is not surprising that the European Centre for Social Welfare Policy and Research is well-known for their ambitious work on such topics as affordable housing, social integration, and disability welfare. While their homepage is a bit difficult to navigate at first, it does contain an all-inclusive “search” function, along with easy access to their...

The 2001 United Kingdom's university system Research Assessment Exercise (RAE) is now freely available to the Internet public. Provided by Higher Education and Research Opportunities (HERO), RAE 2001 was a UK-wide endeavor that allowed publicly funded universities and colleges to submit data regarding their research activities. A panel of judges then assessed the data, and ratings were assigned...

The work at the Institute for Social and Economic Research and Policy (ISERP) comes out of its predecessor institution, the Bureau for Applied Social Research, which was established at Columbia University in 1944. Today, ISERP continues in this tradition, serving as the research arm of the social sciences at Columbia, and offering a host of online resources to the general public. From the...

UNESCO MOST Discussion paper 22 examines drug trafficking in the Amazon basin. "From the symbiotic relationship between the organizations running the illicit drug trade and the banking and financial system, the author develops a methodology based on the role of networks in today's political economy."

Named after one of the 20th century's great physicists, the Max Planck Institute for the Study of Societies "conducts advanced basic research on the governance of modern societies.� With a team of researchers working on a wide range of topics, the Institute's home is in Cologne, and they have formal research agreements with the Center for European Studies at Harvard University, the Amsterdam...

The mantra of the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD) is "Better Policies for Better Lives." OECD's work spans the world and features a team of economists, sociologists, and others working on problems as diverse as higher education, access to clean water, and energy policy. The OECD Working Papers Series spans 19 crucial areas, including agriculture, development,...