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New from the Scout Report for Social Sciences, 5.4.99 - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - >From the Scout Report for Social Sciences, Copyright Internet Scout Project 1994-1999. http://scout.cs.wisc.edu/ - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - RESEARCH [1] Forced Migration Projects -- OSI [2] H-AFRESEARCH LEARNING RESOURCES [3] RaceSci: History of Race in Science [4] Documents in Military History [5] The Pulse: A Consumer's Guide to Public Opinion Data on the Web -- EPI [6] Lives, the Biography Resource [7] Florida State Archives Photographic Collection CURRENT AWARENESS [8] INVISIBLE CULTURE: An Electronic Journal for Visual Studies [9] New Working Papers [10] New Think Tank Policy Papers and Briefs [11] New Offerings from Academic Publishers [12] New Tables of Contents/ Abstracts [13] Conferences [14] Job Guides/ Funding NEW DATA [15] Early Release PSID Data Files [16] United Nations Statistics Division (UNSD): Social Indicators - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - RESEARCH [1] Forced Migration Projects -- OSI http://www.osi.hu/fmp/fmp2/index.html The Forced Migration Projects (FMP), operating under the auspices of the Open Society Institute (OSI), monitor developments in the Americas, the former Yugoslavia, and the former Soviet Union to identify the social, political, and economic conditions that cause the forced dislocations of people. This Website provides background information about the projects as well as full-text access to several FMP publications including _The Forced Migration Monitor_, a series of special reports on refugees and migration, recent news and articles on germane issues, and FM Alert, an electronic bulletin service. In addition, the site compiles a list of refugee-related links and hosts a discussion forum. [AO] [2] H-AFRESEARCH http://www.h-net.msu.edu/gateways/africa/afresearch.html H-AFRESEARCH is a new electronic discussion network devoted to issues related to the use of primary sources in African humanities and social sciences research. The moderated forum aims to promote communication between African Studies researchers and information professionals, enabling researchers to ask questions about and obtain current information on "archival records, manuscripts and personal papers; photograph and film collections; field notes, oral data and music collections; and material culture and artifacts." The co-editors of the list will also solicit and post additional information, such as calls for conferences and publication reviews. [AO] To subscribe, send a message to: LISTSERV@h-net.msu.edu In the body of the message, type: H-AFRESEARCH firstname lastname, institution LEARNING RESOURCES [3] RaceSci: History of Race in Science http://di-145c.mit.edu/racesci/ RaceSci functions as a centralized collection of information resources relevant to the study of the history of race in science. The site provides comprehensive bibliographies on current scholarship; university syllabi on race and science in regard to medicine, eugenics, rhetoric, and social studies; recent journal articles and news items on affiliated topics; briefly annotated links to associated sites; and a list of requests for comment, calls for papers, and announcements for lectures and conferences. Maintained at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, RaceSci is edited by Evelynn Hammonds, associate professor of history of science, Michelle Murphy, postdoctoral fellow in women's studies, and Stephanie Higgs, a graduate student in the Program in Science, Technology, and Society. [AO] [4] Documents in Military History http://www.hillsdale.edu/academics/history/Documents/War/index.htm Edited by Dave Stewart, assistant professor of history at Hillsdale College (Hillsdale, Michigan), Documents in Military History is an online collection of primary sources for military history. The collection emphasizes pre-twentieth-century European military history but also includes some documents that address American and non-Western histories. Currently, the collection contains 325 items in six major historical sections: Ancient, Medieval, Early Modern, French Revolution, Nineteenth Century, and Naval Warfare. Each major section is further divided into more specific subsections. The organized layout of the site promotes chronological browsing. The site also provides a keyword search facility (inoperable at the time of review). [AO] [5] The Pulse: A Consumer's Guide to Public Opinion Data on the Web -- EPI http://www.epinet.org/pulse/pulse.html Recently debuted by the Economic Policy Institute (EPI), The Pulse is a comprehensive "consumer's guide" to public opinion data on the US economy and related topics. Produced by Ruy Teixeira, director of EPI's Politics and Public Opinion Program, the site aims to provide the public with accurate, unbiased information about public opinion data. The Pulse summarizes and links to polling data, public opinion data, and expert data analyses on issues such as the economy, Social Security, education, health care, and globalization. In addition, the site provides a bimonthly, in-depth analysis of a single public opinion issue; currently, The Pulse is scrutinizing polling data related to Social Security. The Pulse is a special Web feature of EPI, a nonprofit, nonpartisan think tank that encourages public debate about strategies to achieve a prosperous and fair economy. [AO] [6] Lives, the Biography Resource http://members.home.net/klanxner/lives/ Lives, the Biography Resource, is a comprehensive guide to more than one thousand biographical information resources available on the Web. The briefly annotated guide indexes resources by individual names and also organizes resources into several collections, which collocate related resources according to subject, region, era, profession, etc. In addition, the guide includes Inside Lives, a section that features new and noteworthy sites covering biographies, autobiographies, memoirs, oral histories, personal papers, and more. Lives is updated weekly by its developer, Ken Lanxner, an ardent enthusiast of all things biographical. [AO] [7] Florida State Archives Photographic Collection http://www.dos.state.fl.us/fpc/ The Florida State Archives Photographic Collection contains more than 790,000 photographs and nearly 2,000 movies and videos. In an on-going effort to make the collection more accessible to the public, the Florida State Archives have digitized and uploaded approximately 40,000 images from their photographic collection, and plan to add more images soon. The vast collection of images is arranged into 23 different collections, chronicling the people and natural history of Florida from the late nineteenth century to the present. Users may browse collections individually or search one or more collections by Title, Image Number, Year, Photographer, or Subject. Searches yield thumbnail images that may be enlarged to enhance viewing. [AO] CURRENT AWARENESS Note: Links to selected current awareness (tables of contents, abstracts, preprints, new books, data, conferences, etc.) resources can be found on the The Scout Report for Social Sciences Current Awareness Metapage. (http://scout.cs.wisc.edu/scout/report/socsci/metapage/) [8] IN[]VISIBLE CULTURE: An Electronic Journal for Visual Studies http://www.rochester.edu/in_visible_culture/ The inaugural issue of IN[]VISIBLE CULTURE: An Electronic Journal for Visual Studies is now available. This new journal, published by the Graduate Program in Visual and Cultural Studies at the University of Rochester (New York), aims "to provide a forum for critical approaches to the production and analysis of cultural objects." The premier issue carries the theme The Worlding of Visual Studies? and includes articles such as Cultural Studies and the Sociology of Culture, by Janet Wolff, Art History after the Death of the "Death of the Subject," by Keith Moxey, and Getting the Warhol We Deserve: Cultural Studies and Queer Culture, by Douglas Crimp. The journal also features art projects and hosts an electronic discussion group. [AO] [9] New Working Papers Joint Center for Poverty Research Working Papers Chase-Lansdale, P. Lindsay. "How Developmental Psychologists Think About Family Process and Child Development in Low Income Families" http://www.jcpr.org/chase-lansdale.html Holzer, Harry J. and Robert J. LaLonde. "Job Change and Job Stability Among Less-Skilled Young Workers" http://www.jcpr.org/holzer_lalonde.html Wallace, Geoffrey and Rebecca M. Blank. "What Goes Up Must Come Down? Explaining Recent Changes in Public Assistance Caseloads" http://www.jcpr.org/blank_wallace.html [10] New Think Tank Policy Papers and Briefs Orent, Wendy. "The Smallpox Wars: Biowarfare vs. Public Health" -- _The American Prospect_ http://www.epn.org/prospect/44/44orent.html [11] New Offerings from Academic Publishers Association of American University Presses: New Releases http://aaup.uchicago.edu/new_releases/ Baker&Taylor Academia -- Upcoming Books to Buy (May 1999) http://www.baker-taylor.com/Academia/M05/Home.html Cambridge University Press http://www.cup.org/books/hot.html Perseus Books: By Category http://www2.awl.com/gb/catalog/category.html Thela Thesis -- Just Published http://www.thelathesis.nl/new.htm Academic International Press -- What's New http://sites.gulf.net/aip/New.html [12] New Tables of Contents/ Abstracts _Current Anthropology_ http://www.journals.uchicago.edu/CA/v40n2toc.html _History of Psychology_ (abstracts) http://www.apa.org/journals/hop/599tc.html _Sexualities: Studies in Culture and Society_ (abstracts) http://www.sagepub.co.uk/journals/details/j0065v02i02.html [13] Conferences Sex, Gender, Culture: The Third Annual History and Theory Conference http://www.hnet.uci.edu/history/history&theory/ November 13-14, 1999. Irvine, California. The Third Annual History and Theory Conference to be held at the University of California, Irvine will investigate the intersections of history and theory, and "explore ways various theories reshape historical inquiry, as well as the contexts in which these theories have developed." A call for papers has recently been issued, and conference organizers invite interdisciplinary proposals from graduate students that address the dialogic relation between history and contemporary theory. Submissions are due August 15, 1999. [AO] [14] Job Guides/ Funding H-Net Job Guide http://www.matrix.msu.edu/jobs/ Chronicle of Higher Education Job Openings Humanities http://chronicle.com/free/jobs/faculty/humanities/links.html Social Science http://chronicle.com/free/jobs/faculty/sscience/links.html Psychwatch.com -- Job Listings & Position Announcements http://www.psychwatch.com/job_page.htm Grant Opportunities from US Department of Education [.pdf] http://ocfo.ed.gov/fedreg/announce.htm NEW DATA [15] Early Release PSID Data Files [.zip] http://www.isr.umich.edu/src/psid/whatsnew.html The Panel Study of Income Dynamics (PSID), conducted by the Survey Research Center at the University of Michigan's Institute for Social Research (see the July 30, 1998 Scout Report for Business & Economics), has recently issued the early release versions of two PSID data files: the 1997 Family file and the 1968-1997 Individual file. Users may download the compressed data files (.zip) at the site. Each compressed file contains ASCII data, a readme file, a cross-year variables index, univariate frequencies and statistics, and SAS and SPSS data definition statements. Early release PSID files contain minimum documentation, and the set of variables in the early releases differ substantially from the final release data. Therefore, it is recommended that only experienced data analysts acquire and use these data files. [AO] [16] United Nations Statistics Division (UNSD): Social Indicators http://www.un.org/Depts/unsd/social/main.htm The UNSD has recently updated its social indicators page. Data are available on general population, youth and elderly populations, human settlements, water supply and sanitation, housing, health, child-bearing, education, literacy, income and economic activity, and unemployment. Each section presents data in discrete, ASCII tables. 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