Interested in exploring the complexities of human institutions? Looking to understand the inner workings of governments, economies, and social systems? This is a good place to start! Here you will find a selection of resources dedicated to the study of various social sciences with an emphasis on government, economics, and sociology, though other disciplines are well represented in several of these databases.
- Research Papers in Economics (RePEc): “A collaborative effort of hundreds of volunteers in 102 countries to enhance the dissemination of research in Economics and related sciences. The heart of the project is a decentralized bibliographic database of working papers, journal articles, books, books chapters and software components, all maintained by volunteers.”
- Social Science Open Access Repository (SSOAR): “The full-text server SSOAR, which is maintained at GESIS – Leibniz Institute for the Social Sciences, collects and archives literature of relevance to the social sciences and makes it available in open access on the Internet in accordance with the Berlin Declaration on Open Access to Knowledge in the Sciences and Humanities.”
- Social Science Research Network (SSRN): An interdisciplinary open access repository aimed at disseminating scholarly research quickly and efficiently. Available research in the humanities, health sciences, physical sciences, and more are available.
- The South Sea Bubble, 1720: “The South Sea Bubble Research Portal offers an opportunity to explore the rich resources of Baker Library, which holds one of the world’s most extensive collections relating to the 1720 financial crisis” (British/American Colonial History).
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