Public Policy and Social Research

Labor / Industrial Relations

FUTUREWORK: (Listserv and links on redesigning work, income distribution and education)
Labor Research Portal
LaborNet
L.A. Repetitive Stress Injury Support Group: (Includes links to other information on RSI)
International Institute of Social History: (Documents and research on history of the labor movement, European emphasis)
Brave New Work World & New Work News
Cornell University Institute of Industrial Relations: (Includes many related links)
Working Today
Duke Occupational & Environmental Medicine

Brookings Institution
Electronic Policy Network: (A project of The American Prospect; includes "Idea Central," a shared site of numerous organizations)
Institute of International Studies, U.C. Berkeley
Policy Library: (A nonprofit and nonpartisan UK enterprise, this site links to an array of policy resources, with international coverage.)
Policy Street: (Links to non-academic policy-related sites: advocacy, think-tanks, government, business and industry)

RAND California: (An online source on Public Policy and Economics ; trial subscription through July 30, 2000)
Urban Institute
Virtual Library on Migration and Ethnic Relations

American Public Human Services Association
Child Welfare Home Page: (Created by SPPSR Professor Duncan Lindsey)
Child Welfare League of America
Connect for Kids: (By the Benton Foundation, tracks child welfare efforts in states and links to other child welfare policy sites)
Family & Society Studies Worldwide
Gerontology Library - Web Links: (Andrus Gerontology Library, USC)
Institute for Research on Poverty: (Universtiy of Wisconsin, includes a "Virtual Green Book" of poverty data and links to other sites and data sources)
Joint Center for Poverty Research (Northwestern University and University of Chicago)
National Association of Social Workers
National Association of Welfare Research and Statistics
National Data Archive on Child Abuse and Neglect
National Governor's Association: (Includes many links and texts on welfare reform)

Social Work and Social Services Jobs Online: (George Warren Brown School of Social Work at Washington University in St. Louis)

Electronic Journals and Texts: JSTOR (Full text content of core journals in the social sciences, humanities and mathematics. Journals complete from their beginning to approximately five years ago); LexisNexis Academic (Full-text news, business, and legal information)
(Note: Database is unavailable every Saturday night/Sunday morning, 11:00 p.m. to 7:00 a.m., Pacific time.); Online Planning (Centre for Advanced Spatial Analysis, University College, London); Planning and Markets: An Electronic Journal (School of Policy, Planning and Development, USC); The State of the Nation's Cities: A Comprehensive Database on American Cities and Suburbs (Center for Urban Policy Research, Rutgers University, for U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development); Urban Land Institute (ULI) (Includes full-text of Urban Land journal and other ULI publications)
(User name and password required ; use restricted to UCLA faculty, staff and students. Contact the Social Sciences Bibliographer, rmedford@library.ucla.edu); Urban Planning, 1794-1918 (Full-text primary source planning documents)

Guides to Urban Planning on the Internet: California PATH - Partners for Advanced Transit and Highways (Excellent links to transportation resources, especially intelligent transportations systems); Cyburbia - The Planning and Architecture Internet Resource Center (formerly PAIRC ; 7000+ links to Urban Planning resources); Research Guides to City & Regional Planning (Environmental Design Library, University of California, Berkeley); The Subway Page (Links to world subway and other transportation information resources)

Research Organizations: American Planning Association / American Institute of Certified Planners (APA/AICP); Center for Urban Transportation Research, University of South Florida (Includes extensive links to transportation resources and a section on African American mobility issues); HUD USER - Policy Development and Research's Information Service (Federal government information on housing, urban planning, and related topics); Institute of Transportation Engineers (Includes extensive links to transportation planning resources); Interplan on the Web (APA International Division); Planners Network; Taub Urban Research Center (New York University ; excellent links for New York City and beyond)

Page created and maintained by Roberta Medford, Social Sciences Bibliographer, (rmedford@library.ucla.edu)
Last updated: June 12, 2002

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