The World Bank is the largest single source of development knowledge. The World Bank Open Knowledge Repository (OKR) is The World Bank’s official open access repository for its research outputs and knowledge products.
ROAD, the Directory of Open Access scholarly Resources, provides a single access point to different types of online scholarly resources published worldwide and freely available.
An international consortium of more than 750 academic institutions and research organizations, Inter-university Consortium for Political and Social Research (ICPSR) provides leadership and training in data access, curation, and methods of analysis for the social science research community.
The national organization for sociologists:
- a non-profit membership association based in Washington, DC
- founded in 1905
- an association of over 13,000+ members
- publisher of 10 professional journals and magazines, plus 4 section journals
Founded in 1951, the British Sociological Association (BSA) is the national subject association for sociologists in the UK and its primary objective is to promote sociology. The BSA is the largest sociological network in the UK and is the public face of sociology in Britain.
As the National Poverty Research Center, the Institute for Research on Poverty (IRP) coordinates a formal network of poverty centers called the U.S. Collaborative of Poverty Centers (CPC).
The International Sociological Association is a non-profit organization dedicated to scientific purposes in the field of sociology and social sciences.
Established in 1972, the National Criminal Justice Reference Service (NCJRS) is a federally funded resource offering justice and drug-related information to support research, policy, and program development worldwide.
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