ROADS Newsletter Editorial - Issue 9 - July 1999 - SOSIG Report

Improving SOSIG

By Emma Place, SOSIG Research Officer <Emma.Place@bris.ac.uk>

We are pleased to announce that as of August 1999 SOSIG (Social Science Information Gateway), the UK's number one place to find social science information on the Internet will be expanding its service. The gateway will draw on the expertise of a number of specialist organisations within the social sciences to help build its database of resources. The new partners are:

• Biz/ed, University of Bristol
• British Library for Political and Economic Science, London School of Economics
• Centre for Social Anthropology and Computing, University of Canterbury at Kent
• CTI Centre for Psychology, University of York
• Department of Sociology, University of Surrey
• Institute for Advanced Legal Studies, University of London
• National Institute for Social Work

In addition to the expanded catalogue of Internet resources SOSIG will benefit from closer links with the Social Science Research Grapevine service which will provide news of conferences and courses in the social sciences as well as an area for researchers to post CVs and find potential research opportunities and partnerships.

SOSIG is funded by the Economic and Social Research Council (ESRC) and the Joint Information Systems Committee (JISC) as part of the UK Resource Discovery Network (RDN) which will be developing an integrated resource discovery service for the UK.

Emma Place (nee Worsfold)
Institute for Learning and Research Technology
University of Bristol, UK
http://localhost/about/staff/emma.html
Emma.Place@bristol.ac.uk

Issue 9 July 1999