Resources for Social Scientists

https://library.princeton.edu/resource/4085 Sociometrics. Social science and health data archives plus an online data analysis system.

https://www.icpsr.umich.edu/icpsrweb/ Inter-university Consortium for Political and Social Research (ICPSR). An international consortium of more than 750 academic institutions and research organizations. ICPSR maintains a data archive of more than 250,000 files of research in the social and behavioral sciences. It hosts 21 specialized collections of data in education, aging, criminal justice, substance abuse, terrorism, and other fields.

https://dss.princeton.edu/ Data and Statistical Services (DSS) provides data and statistical consulting. The service is located in Firestone Library.

https://www.ssrn.com/index.cfm/en/ SSRN is an open-access online preprint community providing valuable services to leading academic schools and government institutions. Specializing primarily in social sciences, including economics, law, corporate governance, and humanities, SSRN is branching out in to other science disciplines providing opportunities for scholars to post their early research, collaborate on theories and discoveries, and get credit for their ideas before peer reviewed publication.

https://compass-workshops.github.io/info/ COMPASS Workshops. Computing for Data Analysis in the Social Sciences. The COMPASS Workshops are a series of free, open-source statistical programming and data science workshops held weekly during the academic year at Princeton University. Supported by the Department of Sociology, Department of Politics, and the Office of the President, the workshops focus on using R with RStudio in a variety of real-world applications relevant to social scientists. Topics covered include data wrangling, data visualization, Monte Carlo simulations, linear regression, data wrangling, and text mining.

http://csiss.org/ Center for Spatially Integrated Social Science (CSISS) recognizes the growing significance of space, spatiality, location, and place in social science research. It seeks to develop unrestricted access to tools and perspectives that will advance the spatial analytic capabilities of researchers throughout the social sciences.

http://digitalhps.org Digital HPS. Digital History and Philosophy of Science (dHPS) brings together historians and philosophers of science, with informaticians, computer scientists, and reference librarians with the goal of thinking of new ways to integrate traditional scholarship with digital tools and resources.

http://www.icpsr.umich.edu/icpsrweb/ ICPSR advances and expands social and behavioral research, acting as a global leader in data stewardship and providing rich data resources and responsive educational opportunities for present and future generations. An international consortium of more than 750 academic institutions and research organizations, ICPSR provides leadership and training in data access, curation, and methods of analysis for the social science research community. ICPSR maintains a data archive of more than 250,000 files of research in the social and behavioral sciences. It hosts 21 specialized collections of data in education, aging, criminal justice, substance abuse, terrorism, and other fields.