USEFUL AND INTERESTING LINKS

Professional Affiliations:

• The American Political Science Association
• The National Conference of Black Political Scientists
• The International Society of Political Psychology
• Phi Beta Kappa Honors Society
• The Ohio State University Office of Minority Affairs

Internet Resources:

• Google
• Lexis Nexis Academic Universe
• The Library of Congress
• The Internet Public Library - Reference Section
• The Ohio State On-Line Library
• The Ohio State University Political Research Laboratory (PRL)
• Resources for Political Scientists (A List of Useful Links)
• PoliSci.com Headquarters
• A (Very Basic) Internet Glossary of Statistical Terms
• Journal Storage: The Scholarly Journal Archive (JSTOR)
• The MIT Encyclopedia of the Cognitive Sciences

Need Data?

• Inter University Consortium of Political Science Research (ICPSR)
• The National Election Studies (NES)
• The Roper Center of Public Opinion Research
• The Survey Documentation and Analysis (SDA) Archive
• National Archive of Criminal Justice Data (NACJD)
• The National Opinion Research Center (NORC)
• The U.S. Census Bureau
• Fed Stat (Useful Resource for Federal and State Level Data)
• Keith Poole's Home Page (Excellent site for Legislative Roll Call Data, Etc.)
• The Gallup Organization

Statistical Software, Tutorials, and Consultation:

• SEMNET: The Structural Equation Modeling Discussion Network
• The LISREL Index (good for looking up information about structural equations)
• The AMOS Homepage (even more information about structural equation modeling)
• John Lacher's Microsoft Excel Tutorial
• Resources to Help you Learn and Use SPSS
• Resources to Help you Learn and Use STATA
• Q-Soft (Free Software for Building, Managing, and Analyzing Datasets)
• Gary King's Website

Personal Favorites:

• Poetry.com (search for my poem under "Elmer Ray Block, Jr.")
• The Washington Post
• The Columbus Dispatch
• ESPN
• Okayplayer.com
• Black Voices
• The Onion, America's Finest News Source (...for an alternative perspective)
• Fun Shack (when you care to send the very best)
• Games.com (all the games you love to play...online)
• Comedy Central
• The Cartoon Network (I've Taken a Liking to Samuri Jack)