Academic
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 get in touch.
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.