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Dear Colleague The proceedings of the First International Conference on e-Social Science held by the ESRC National Centre for e-Social Science (NCeSS) are now available online at our website http://www.ncess.ac.uk (under Events). NCeSS has also announced three more research nodes due to start this August: Oxford e-Social Science (OeSS) Project: Ethical, Legal and Institutional Dynamics of Grid Enabled e-Science; University of Oxford Focuses on the social, institutional, ethical and legal issues surrounding e-Science infrastructures and research practices. GEOVUE: Geographic Virtual Urban Environments; University College London Proposes to design a platform for virtual urban environments (VUEs) through which users will be able to design and construct environments specifically tailored to their own requirements. Semantic Grid Tools for Rural Policy Development and Appraisal; University of Aberdeen Focuses on the development, application and evaluation of agent-based models and semantic grid tools. The application domain is environmental modelling and aims to facilitate the use of mixed methods for evidenced- based policy making. Further information regarding the nodes and newly announced small grants can be found under the “Research” section of our website. We are also launching the NCeSS Wiki to which contributions on any aspect of e-social science is very much appreciated. If you have not used a Wiki before there is plenty of support available to help get you started. The Wiki can be found linked from our home page. Best wishes Gillian Sinclair Dr Gillian Sinclair Programme Manager ESRC National Centre for e-Social Science University of Manchester Dover Street Building Dover Street Manchester M13 9PL UK Email: [log in to unmask] Web: http://www.ncess.ac.uk Tel: 0161-275-1380 Fax: 0161-275-1390 Join our monthly mailing list at: http://www.ncess.ac.uk/newsletter/index.shtml