Communication

Curated Resources

Curated for Social Sciences, which includes Communication.

• Marginal Revolution blog
  marginalrevolution.com

  Widely read academic economics blog founded by Tyler Cowen and Alex Tabarrok analyzing market trends and social policies.

• SocArXiv blog
  socopen.org

  Open archive for the social sciences providing free access to working papers, preprints, and research repositories.

• SSRN Social Sciences database
  www.ssrn.com

  Multidisciplinary online repository devoted to the rapid worldwide dissemination of social science research and working papers.

• Stanford Social Innovation Review blog
  ssir.org

  Award-winning magazine and digital platform informing cross-sector solutions to global socioeconomic problems.

• Federal Reserve Economic Data (FRED) database
  fred.stlouisfed.org

  Extensive online database of US and international economic time series maintained by the Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis.

• World Bank Open Data database
  data.worldbank.org

  Free, open-access repository of global development indicators and socioeconomic statistics from the World Bank.

• ICPSR database
  www.icpsr.umich.edu

  World's largest archive of digital social science datasets, surveys, and polling studies maintained by the University of Michigan.

• IPUMS database
  www.ipums.org

  Harmonized census and survey data from around the world integrated for social and economic research.

• Our World in Data database
  ourworldindata.org

  Open-access scientific online publication featuring research and interactive data on global poverty, health, and population.

• Allied Social Science Associations Annual Meeting (ASSA) conference
  www.aeaweb.org

  Premier international conference in economics hosted each January by the American Economic Association and affiliated associations.

• American Sociological Association Annual Meeting conference
  www.asanet.org

  Annual meeting of the American Sociological Association bringing together thousands of sociology educators and researchers.

• American Political Science Association Annual Meeting conference
  www.apsanet.org

  World's largest gathering of political scientists, policy scholars, and international relations researchers.

• American Psychological Association Annual Convention conference
  convention.apa.org

  Global annual convention featuring psychological scientific sessions, clinical workshops, and mental health research.

• Marginal Revolution University course
  mru.org

  Free online educational platform created by economists Tyler Cowen and Alex Tabarrok offering video courses in micro and macroeconomics.

• MIT OpenCourseWare: Economics course
  ocw.mit.edu

  Open educational materials, lecture videos, and problem sets from MIT undergraduate and graduate economics and political science courses.

• OpenStax Social Sciences textbook
  openstax.org

  Peer-reviewed, openly licensed introductory college textbooks in psychology, sociology, political science, and economics.

• CrashCourse Social Sciences course
  thecrashcourse.com

  Educational video series covering psychology, sociology, economics, and government produced by Complexly.

• American Economic Review journal
  www.aeaweb.org

  Flagship peer-reviewed academic journal of the American Economic Association covering microeconomics, macroeconomics, and applied policy.

• Annual Review of Sociology journal
  www.annualreviews.org

  Influential annual volume providing comprehensive, synthesis literature reviews of major developments in sociology.

• American Political Science Review journal
  www.cambridge.org

  Flagship scholarly research journal of the American Political Science Association published by Cambridge University Press.

• Annual Review of Psychology journal
  www.annualreviews.org

  Leading synthesis review journal covering key research trends in cognitive, clinical, developmental, and social psychology.

• R Project for Statistical Computing tool
  www.r-project.org

  Open-source programming environment widely adopted in social sciences for statistical analysis, psychometrics, and econometrics.

• JASP tool
  jasp-stats.org

  Free and open-source statistical program with an intuitive graphical interface supporting classical and Bayesian social science methods.

• Gephi tool
  gephi.org

  Open-source software for exploring and manipulating networks and graphs in sociological, political, and historical research.

• OpenRefine tool
  openrefine.org

  Powerful open-source tool for working with messy quantitative and qualitative datasets, cleaning data, and transforming formats.

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