Ameristat -- Facts, figures, and analysis of key overall demographic trends affecting the U.S. population.
Amnesty International Library -- Contains annual reports on human rights issues and activities for over 150 countries. Also has news articles back to 1996.
Center for Spatially Integrated Social Science -- The mission of the center "recognizes the growing significance of space, spatiality, location and place in social science research." Links to resources: bibliographies, e-journals, workshops, conferences, video clips, etc.
Combating Underage Drinking -- Includes an overview of the problem accompanied by resources for further information and an annotated bibliography.
Disability Rights and Independent Living Movement -- Information on the history of the movement, organizations, people, race and gender issues, disability rights law and policy, equal access issues, and the international movement.
Institute for Social Research -- Offers information on studies in sociology, psychology, political science, anthropology; also links to teaching resources, centers and projects.
Intermediate Technology Development Group -- Website with practical answers to poverty, sustainable solutions, and people-focused. Geographic areas include East Africa, South Asia, the Sudan, and Latin America.
International Women's Health Coalition -- IWHC is committed to working for women's rights, health, equality, social and economic justice, and the global well-being of women.
Marxists Internet Archive -- Features over 100 Marxist writers, topical approaches to Marxism, historical archive, and an encyclopedia. Available in over 40 languages.
Men's Bibliography -- Comprehensive bibliography of writing on men, masculinities and sexualities.
The Merck Manual of Geriatrics -- Focuses on the medial problems of the elderly; provides clinical information to physicians, nurses, pharmacists, and other health professionals involved in the care of elderly patients.
MLA Language Map Data Center -- Use to find out the number of speakers of a language in a particular geographic region in the United States.
Mountain Voices -- Provides access to interviews with residents of several different mountain areas around the world. Features 36 different themes such as agriculture, conflict, customs, gender, spiritual beliefs, and family. Complete transcripts available through an easy registration process.
NationMaster.com -- Statistics cover a wide range of categories - democracy, environment, religion, labor, education, etc. Also searchable by country, with profiles, maps, and flags. (Works best using Netscape 7 and above.)
National Center for PTSD -- This site offers information about post-traumatic stress for veterans, assessment of PTSD, fact sheets, publications and the tsunami disaster.
National Institute on Aging -- Information directed toward the public as well as researchers. Two major headings "health information" and "research information." Much of the info is available in both English and Spanish.
NationJob Online Jobs Database -- An on-line job search database sponsored by NationJob, a privately-held corporation based in Des Moines, Iowa. Thousands of current detailed jobs and company profiles. Partnerships with communities and newspapers bring paid listings from companies.
NIDA Research Reports Index -- Reports of drug abuse research findings for the educated lay public, legislators, educational groups, and practitioners.
Northwestern University / University of Chicago, Joint Center for Poverty Research -- An agency which focuses its efforts on researching poverty in the United States. In addition to determining the factors which cause poverty, the Center evaluates programs designed to alleviate the effects of poverty and it also promotes research designed to intervene in the ability of negative factors to cause poverty.
PILOTS Database -- PILOTS database is an electronic index to the literature on post-traumatic stress disorder. Click on Search PILOTS to access the database.
Project on Strategies to Address Crimes of Honour -- Honor crimes are the murder of women by male relatives because the women are perceived as dishonoring their families through unacceptable behavior.
Social Science Data Archives -- Contains links to countries worldwide, with associated links to statistical information. Also links to research centers in subjects such as demography, rural studies, web technology, and women studies.
SocioSite -- The link to Subject Areas contains a vast amount of topics, such as activism, folklore, masculinity, queer, Taylorism, and women issues. Also contains links to famous sociologists, libraries, associations, universities.
Sourcebook of Criminal Justice Statistics Online -- Brings together data about all aspects of criminal justice in the United States presented in over 600 tables from more than 100 sources. The site is upgraded regularly to reflect new data that will appear annually in the print edition.
Terrorism Project -- The Center for Defense Information (CDI), an independent think-tank founded in 1912, provides information on defense issues from security policy to weapons systems. The Terrorism Project is concerned with in-depth analysis of all aspects of fighting terrorism, both now and in the future.
UNHCR: The UN Refugee Agency -- Contains news and reports, also photo galleries, documenting the status of refugees and asylum-seekers throughout the world.
U.S. Department of Justice, Bureau of Justice Statistics -- Contains information on crime, criminal offenders, victims of crime, and the operations of justice systems at all levels of government. Includes full text of selected BJS documents. Also offers links to sites with related information.
Current Research in Social Psychology -- Current Research in Social Psychology (CRISP) is a peer reviewed, electronic journal covering all aspects of social psychology.
Electronic Journal of Sociology -- Contains articles on social problems, gender, criminology, women's studies, social theory, and, of course, sociology.
Journal of Rural Community Psychology -- Journal of Rural Community Psychology is a peer-reviewed, scholarly electronic journal. It is interested in sociological, psychological, and mental health issues in rural and small community settings.
Journal of World-Systems Research -- An interdisciplinary journal dedicated to scholarly research on the modern world-system and earlier, smaller intersocietal networks.
Population Bulletin -- Quarterly bulletins--some full-text--with information about domestic and international population research. ISU Library has these in paper at HB881.A1 P65.
The Progress of Nations -- A ranking of the nations of the world according to their achievements in child health, nutrition, education, family planning, and progress for women.
Rural Conditions and Trends -- This journal reports on economic conditions and development in the rural United States.
Solidarity & Sustainability -- Newsletter concerned with overcoming patriarchal barriers to sustainable human development.
Standpoint -- Published twice a year by the center for Research on Women. The mission of the Center is to conduct, promote, and disseminate scholarship on women and social inequality.
Sex Reassignment -- Thirty Years of international follow-up studies of approximately 2,000 persons who have undergone sex reassignment surgery; describes the history of sex reassignment, development of various treatments, procedures of documentation and evaluation, and results.
Transsexual Phenomenon -- The first major work ever published dealing with the psychological, criminological, surgical, and sociological aspects of transsexualism and sex conversion in the human male and female.
