Grants

• American Political Science Association Research and Training Support
  • Annotated guide to grants and fellowships in political science
  • Includes description of grant, applicant requirements and deadline, stipend, and link to web page or e-mail address of donor

• Division of Research & Development (UMich)
  • Research funding opportunities and University of Michigan research awards
  • Guides to grant proposals and preparations
  • PRISM
    • Searchable data base of grants received by University of Michigan staff since 1988
    • Access by grantee, sponsor, dates, subject, and award amount

• Foundation Center
  • Locate grants by private, corporate, and community grants by keyword, geography, or name of organization
  • Information includes description of grants and links to the organization's web site
  • Sample application forms; articles on grants

• For federal government opportunities, see Federal Grants and Contracts

Methodology

• Political Methodology (APSA)
  • Working papers on political methodology
  • Text of the Political Methodologist
  • Links to software and statistics

• Political Methodology (Florida State)
  • Links to game theory and statistical modeling

• Political Methodology and Survey Research (University of British Columbia)
  • Extensive but unannotated links to data archives
  • Includes some articles on political methodology

• Research in Political Science (LSU)
  • Links to working papers and statistics

• Resources for Methods in Evaluation and Social Research
  • Annotated guide to web materials on social science research
  • Includes articles on how to evaluate someone else's research, survey methods

• Working Paper Sites of Political Science: Political Methodology and Data
  • Listing of political methodology reports appearing on the personal web sites of political scientists

Statistics

• How to Export a Table from a PDF File into an Excel Spreadsheet (McGill University)
  • Detailed instructions with clear, illustrated examples
  • Requires Adobe Acrobat 5.0 rather than the Acrobat Reader

• HyperStat Online (Rice University)
  • Introductory text to statistics, including such topics as univariate and bivariate data, probability, prediction, chi square
  • Numerous links within each chapter to related concepts and the glossary
  • List of other statistical textbooks available on the web

• Inter-University Consortium for Political & Social Research
  • Catalog and index to ICPSR's archival holdings of demographic, economic, health, and political machine readable data tapes
  • Free web access to federal crime and aging data
  • Links to U.S., international, and foreign data archives
  • Organizational information about ICPSR and its summer institutes
  • University of Michigan affiliates should contact the Library Numeric and Spatial Data Services for data access and CSCAR for technical assistance

• International Social Survey Programme
  • Data archive for European and American general social surveys
  • Includes codebooks for such topics as social inequality, religion, national identity and work
  • Codebooks provide questions and often frequencies in individual countries

• National Archives Electronic Records
  • Various ways to identify electronic records in the National Archives, including browse lists and a database

• Market Research Portal
  • Numerous articles on conducting market research
  • Quantitative and qualitative methods
  • Glossary and RSS feeds

• Numeric and Spatial Data Services at the University of Michigan Library
  • Describes how to find data sets at University of Michigan
  • Includes membership in the Harvard/MIT Data Center
  • Contact information for Numeric and Spatial Data Services at the University of Michigan Library

• Social Science Data Collections (Yahoo)
  • List of U.S. and international data archives
  • Archives include catalogs of holdings and often data bases with a searchable web interface

• Statistical Resources on the Web
  • Links to user-friendly data on demography, economics, military affairs, sociology, and related topics
  • United States and foreign data archives
  • Additional links to data archives
  • Public opinion and election data appear in Political Science Statistics

• Statistics to Use
  • Calculate mean, median, chi square distributions, etc.

• STATS: Statistical Assessment Service
  • Articles describe the leading statistics used in current newspaper articles
  • Collection dates back to 1997

• Statsoft: Electronic Textbook
  • Twenty-four chapters and a glossary
  • Headings include cluster and factor analysis; linear regression; time series/forecasting

Quick Jumps:

Grace York, Political Science Librarian
Christina Campbell, Documents Assistant, July 2000
University of Michigan Library
Graphics by Sherry Piontek and Barbara Perles

http://www.lib.umich.edu/govdocs/psmethod.html

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