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 .
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!
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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 .
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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)
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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.
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