Political and Social Science databases

AidData - Open Data for International Development
Database with information on aid to international economic development, going back as far as 1947. The research interface can filter data by geographical area and provides access to around a million data relating to aid projects, past and present, all over the world; services and tools for managing information on aid; technological services for the visualisation of data. The datasets can be searched by subject such as disaster prevention, the supplying of energy or water, or aid in rebuilding.

 

Factiva
Service providing information in the economic and financial field, updated daily, enabling access to thousands of important economic headings, links to various press agencies, and the use of accessory services such as the detailed profiles of the major economic groups and quotations from the financial markets.
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International Network for the Demographic Evaluation of Populations and Their Health (INDEPTH) Data Repository
INDEPTH aims to strengthen the global capacity for health and demographic surveillance systems (HDSSs) and to start up multisite research projects to guide the priorities and health policies in the LMICs (Low- and Middle-Income Countries), on the basis of updated scientific trials. The archive aims to make available in open access anonymised and well documented data coming from these centres. Advanced research interface.

 

Open Science Framework (OSF)
Managed by the Center for Open Science, OSF , by means of a federated selective research on a multitude of open subject repositories makes available a preprint archive referable to the social sciences.

 

ProQuest Social Sciences Premium Collection
Database specialised in the social, political, linguistic and educational sciences.
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SocArxiv - Open Archive of the Social Science
Platform for the deposit of and access to articles in pre-print format, divided into 4 areas: Arts & Humanities / Law / Education / Social & Behavioral Science. Since these are pre-prints, processes of scientific validation of the articles deposited are not explicitated.

 

Springer Books Economics and Finance 2016
Access to all the volumes published by the editor Springer in 2016 included in the disciplinary collection “Economics & Finance”.
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Springer Books Political Science & International Studies 2016 -
Access to all the volumes published by the editor Springer in 2016 onwards included in the disciplinary collection “Political Science & International Studies”.
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Springer Books Social Sciences 2016 -
Access to all the volumes published by the editor Springer in 2016 onwards included in the disciplinary collection “Social Sciences”.
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The World Bank Open Data
Database of the research data of the World Bank. The data, predominantly referable to the economic and social sciences, are open and their retrieval is advised via the advanced research interface.

 

ZACAT
Portal on the social sciences that enables searching, browsing, analysis and downloading of the data of social sciences surveys, provided by GESIS - Leibniz Institute for the Social Sciences. ZACAT includes data coming from: International Social Survey Programme (ISSP), Comparative Study of Electoral Systems (CSES), Eurobarometer, European Values Study (EVS), Studies from Eastern Europe, ALLBUS, Politbarometer, Election Studies (Germany), LebensRäume.