Academic Resources
The Economic Geography Research Group is keen to develop a valuable on-line resource in the form of links and gateways to sites of interest. If you have suggestions for sites that you think will be of use to economic geographers, please e-mail Neil Coe.
Research centres and projects
(many have working papers that can be downloaded)
- Berkeley Round Table on International Economy.
- Centre for Local Economic Strategies.
- Danish Research Unit for Industrial Dynamics.
- DIME project .
- ESRC Transnational Communities Programme.
- Global production networks project.
- Global Value Chains.
- Globalization and World Cities study network.
- Globalization of temporary staffing project.
- Institute of Development Studies.
- Institution of Economic Development.
- International Institute for Environment and Development.
- Oxford University, School of Geography Working papers on Employment Work and Finance .
- SECONS discussion forum.
- Services and Enterprise Research Unit.
- Science and Technology Policy Research Unit (SPRU).
- World Economic Forum.
British Geography
- Research and Higher Education Division of the RGS-IBG.
- Developing Areas Research Group.
- Historical Geography Research Group.
- Population Geography Research Group.
- Participatory Geographies Working Group
- Quantitative Methods Study Group.
- Urban Geography Research Group.
- Regional Studies Association. Not strictly geography, but pretty geographical!
Association of American Geographers (AAG) Specialty Groups
- Economic Geography Specialty Group.
- Asian Geography Specialty Group.
- China Geography Specialty Group.
- European Specialty Group.
- Communication Geography Speciality Group.
- Latin America Speciality Group.
- Political Geography Specialty Group.
- Qualitative Research Specialty Group.
- Socialist Geography Specialty Group.
- Transportation Geography Specialty Group.
- Urban Geography Specialty Group.
- Ethics, and Justice Specialty Group.
British Social Science
Organisations
- The Leverhulme Trust.
- Institute for Fiscal Studies.
- Economic and Social Research Council. bringer of all good things...
- The British Academy.
Data and Publications
- Economic Geography.
- The Journal of Economic Geography.
- Transactions of the Institute of British Geographers.
- Area.
- Sage Publications.
- ESRC Data Archive.
- ESRC Qualitative Data Archival Resource Centre. (QUALIDATA).
- Social Science Research Network (SSRN)
Other sites
- Harvard Business Review.
- BIDS Journals on-line. Never leave your desk again: From 1997, the full adobe pdf versions of your favourite jounals (at least as published by Blackwells and Arnold) are available free of charge from here. All you need is a BIDS i.d. (from your library) and for your own university library to stock the journal in paper form. This is truely great (but only available in the UK).
- New Jour. Comprehensive listing of electronic journals.
- Canadian Journal of Sociology.
- Clearing house for Social Sciences Subject-Oriented Bibliographies.
- Information on European Union Research and Development Projects.
- International Sociological Association (ISA).
- Media and Communication Studies.
- Social Sciences Virtual Library.
- Social Sciences Data Collection. University of California, San Diego.
- Yale University Library. This list includes connections to Yale Library online catalogs, information about card catalogs, and connections to library catalogs from around the world.