Social Sciences Virtual Library

Scholarly Societies for the Social Sciences

Councils, Federations, and Online Directories

• American Council of Learned Societies
  http://www.acls.org/jshome.htm
  [A major coalition of scholarly organizations in the United States. The web site offers a linked list of constituent learned societies and to other online scholarly resources.]
• Associations on the Net: Social Sciences
  http://www.ipl.org/cgi-bin/ref/aon.out.pl?id=soc0000
  [Part of the guide provided by the Internet Public Library. A longer version of the page is even more useful.]
• Humanities and Social Science Federation of Canada
  http://www.hssfc.ca/
  [An association of scholarly societies in Canada.]
• Scholarly Societies Project
  http://www.lib.uwaterloo.ca/society/subjects_soc.html
  [A set of links to a large number of professional organizations, arranged by discipline or subject-matter field. A service of the Scholarly Societies Project at the University of Waterloo (Canada).]
• Social Science Research Council
  http://www.ssrc.org/index.htm
  [The SSRC is an independent, nongovernmental, not-for-profit, international association devoted to the advancement of interdisciplinary research in the social sciences. It sponsors interdisciplinary workshops and conferences, fellowships and grants, summer training institutes, scholarly exchanges, and publications. There is a useful hyperlink index of funders, affiliated institutes, and other organizations.]
• Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada
  http://www.sshrc.ca/
  [Reports on grant support, conferences, projects, and current research.]

Individual Organizations

• Cheiron: The International Society for the History of Behavioral and Social Sciences (Canada)
  http://www.yorku.ca/dept/psych/orgs/cheiron/cheiron.htm
  [An association mainly of academic professionals, with headquarters at York University in Canada.]
• International Statistical Institute (Netherlands)
  http://www.cbs.nl/isi/
  [Established in 1885, the Institute is "an autonomous society which seeks to develop and improve statistical methods and their application through the promotion of international activity and co-operation."]

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