On Wed, 23 Jun 1999 09:27:34 +0100 (GMT Daylight Time)
Lesly Huxley <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
> Apologies for cross-postings
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> Internet Hub for Social Science, Business and Law
>
> http://www.sosig.ac.uk/
>
> We are pleased to announce that as of August 1999 SOSIG
> (Social Science Information Gateway), the world's number
> one place to find social science information on the
> Internet will be expanding its service. SOSIG provides a
> browsable and searchable catalogue of thousands of high
> quality Internet resources of relevance to anyone doing
> teaching, research or studying in the area. Every record
> in the catalogue has been created by a specialist and SOSIG
> also runs its own "Harvester" - a search engine with
> brains! The new service draws on the expertise of a number
> of additional specialist organisations within the social
> sciences to help build its database of resources. The new
> partners are:
>
> * Biz/ed - the Business and Economics specialists
> * British Library for Political and Economic Science,
> London School of Economics
> * Centre for Social and Anthropological Computing,
> University of Kent at Canterbury
> * CTI Centre for Psychology, University of York
> * Department of Sociology, University of Surrey
> * Institute for Advanced Legal Studies, University of London
> * National Institute for Social Work
>
> In addition to the exanded catalogue of Internet resources
> SOSIG will benefit from the leading edge research being
> undertaken at the Institute for Learning and Research
> Technology, University of Bristol, where the service is
> based. This will include the use of personal user profiles
> to provide news of conferences and courses in the social
> sciences as well as an area for researchers to post CVs and
> find potential research opportunities and partnerships.
>
> SOSIG is funded by the Economic and Social Research Council
> (ESRC) and the Joint Information Systems Committee (JISC)
> as part of the UK Resource Discovery Network (RDN).
>
> Contact Details
>
> For more information about SOSIG and our new services
> contact:
>
> Debra Hiom
> SOSIG
> Institute for Learning and Research Technology
> University of Bristol
> 8-10 Berkeley Square
> Bristol BS8 1HH
>
> Tel: +44 (0)117 928 7117
> Fax: +44 (0)117 928 7112
> Email: [log in to unmask]
> http://www.sosig.ac.uk/
>
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