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Social Science Library:
Frontier Thinking in Sustainable Development and Human Well-Being
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Project Overview
The Social Science Library: Frontier Thinking in Sustainable Development and Human Well-Being has been created by the Global Development And Environment Institute at Tufts University. The Social Science Library (SSL), which is a contribution to the UN Decade for Education for Sustainable Development, contains about 3,000 full text journal articles and book chapters in Anthropology, Economics, History, Philosophy, Social Psychology, Sociology and Political Science. The Library also includes full bibliographic references (including abstracts) to an additional 6,000 articles. The SSL is available as a two CD-ROM set and on a single USB drive and will be distributed, free of charge, to university libraries in 137 countries, with particular emphasis on those locations that have little or no access to the Internet.
The content selected for the SSL has been carefully organized to:
- Enable users to find material of interest quickly and efficiently;
- Give global attention and emphasis to those social science writings that are most likely to contribute to understanding and promotion of sustainable development and human well-being;
- Assist scholars and thinkers in developing countries to participate fully in the on-going development of social science knowledge and understanding; and
- Mimic web functions, such as search capabilities, so as to assist scholars and students to make good use of the web when they do have access.
Technical Overview
The SSL was created with Greenstone open source software and Cvision compression software. The user has the option to install the collection on the computer's hard drive or to run it from the CDs or USB drive. System Requirements are Windows 95 or subsequent operating system, and 64 MG of RAM. Using the collection requires an internet browser and Adobe Reader application software, both of which will be included on the CDs and USB drives.
For more information about the SSL, email us at SSL@tufts.edu
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