In addition to scientific articles, Gene Expression often has articles on social attitudes surveys. This one is from Iran and looks into the differences of opinion between those with low levels of education and those with high levels of education. The less-educated do seem to take a slightly more conservative view on some questions, but the difference is often not that great.

This site provides free access to a white paper published in December 2008 by the Federal Web Managers Council. It considers use of social media by United States government websites in 2008, problems faced and the difficulties in implementing web 2.0. It then offers some possible solutions for future development.

I read articles like this and just wish we could move faster to adopt social networking principles in central government.

The all new Social Europe website is now live with more functionality for our readers. We have merged the Social Europe website and Social Europe Blog to have all our content in one accessible place and still offer as much interactivity as possible. In addition to our traditional PDF version of each journal issue, our articles

The Open Index Initiative is maintained by staff of the Indira Gandhi Institute of Development Research Library. It provides free access to a searchable database of bibliographic references to social science literature and resources held in major Indian research Libraries. It includes references to journal articles, conference papers, working papers, research reports and theses. Most articles are ...

This blog is maintained by by the Social Media Subcouncil, which is a body of the United States Federal Web Managers Council. Its purpose is to highlight best practices in the use of Web 2.0 social media by government agencies. It includes links to news stories, case studies, conference papers, comment and new publications. Topics covered include the design of government websites; use of web 2.0 s...

I really never thought I would say that. They can appear somewhat cliquey – the only Federal Committee to publish its mugshots in the conference agenda (apparently conference representatives aren’t interested in who looks after their interests on the Federal Executive or the Federal Policy Committee). They can be a bit insensitive: not the cleverest

The Iraqi Center for Federal Studies (ICFS) is a projject of the Forum of Federations which has received funding from the Canadian International Development Agency (CIDA). It seeks to encourage discussion in Iraq about democratic forms of federal government. The English language version of the website provides some background explanations of the nature and theory of federal government. It also inc...

The Journal of Alternative Perspectives in the Social Sciences is published by the Guild of Independent Scholars. It aims to publish articles, comment and reviews from independent scholars. The website offers free access to all materials from volume one 2008 onwards. Topics covered include international politics, social problems, development and international relations. There is an emphasis upon p...

This Google custom search engine enables users to quickly search for articles in over 2,000 open access journal titles covering a wide range of subject areas from the arts, humanities and social sciences. It therefore excludes articles in closed access subscription databases. Searching is by a simple quick search feature which looks for keywords in the text.Titles are tracked from well established...