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Revision as of 15:48, 7 May 2015
Contents
Search for articles, papers, studies:
Search databases
ICPSR Inter-university Consortium for Political and Social Research at the University of Michigan
MetaLib a federated search engine that searches multiple U.S. Federal government databases, retrieving reports, articles, and citations while providing direct links to selected resources available online
OAISTER a freely available database of over 30 million records from 1500 sources; for background on OAISTER see OCLC's webpage
SSOAR Social Science Open Access Repository; search over 30,000 texts from the social science fields
Social Science Research Network "Social Science Research Network (SSRN) is devoted to the rapid worldwide dissemination of social science research and is composed of a number of specialized research networks in each of the social sciences."
White Rose Research Online search research output from a consortium of British universities
Search journals
Directory of Open Access Journals search for journals in your field (a title search); or search for articles in the journals (articles search)
Ubiquity Press browse through the contents of open access journals in the social sciences including such titles as Architectural Histories or The Journal of Conservation and Museum Studies.
Bibliographies
Digital Scholarship "information and commentary about digital copyright, digital curation, digital repository, open access, scholarly communication, and other digital information issues." Search Digital Scholarship.
Open access journals
FQS Forum: Qualitative Social Research
Future Internet an open access journal
IBIMA Publishing browse and search a collection of open access journals
Journal of Open Archaeology Data "peer reviewed data papers describing archaeology datasets with high reuse potential"
Museum Anthropology Review a peer-reviewed open access journal
Open Journal of Social Sciences an open access journal published by Scientific Research
The Open Social Science Journal published by Bentham Open
Research and Politics "peer-reviewed research in political science and related fields"
Social Technologies a research journal published by the Mykolas Romeris University; abstracts and article citations available
Websites
Issue Lab a service of the Foundation Center; the site provides free access to thousands of case studies, white papers and issue briefs that discuss pressing social problems
Research articles
The Anthropology of Virtual Worlds: World of Warcraft by Alex Golub. v. 43. no. 2 Reviews in Anthropology (2014). Download article at http://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/00938157.2014.903150#.VANp5mO-bEE
Neogeography and Preparedness for Real-to-Virtual World Knowledge Transfer: Conceptual Steps to Minecraft Malta by Saviour Formosa. Vol. 6 Issue 3 Future Internet (2014).
Virtual Ethnography (a thematic issue) published in Vol. 8 No. 3 Forum: Qualitative Social Research (2007). All articles are open access.
Books
Coming of age in Second Life : an anthropologist explores the virtually human by Tom Boellstorff. Princeton : Princeton University Press, 2008.
Ethnography and virtual worlds : a handbook of method by Tom Boellstorff. Princeton, NJ : Princeton University Press, 2012.
The Public Domain: enclosing the commons of the mind by James Boyle. Yale University Press, 2010. Download creative commons copy at http://www.thepublicdomain.org
