Nicky Ferguson and Debra Hiom
The Social Science Information Gateway (SOSIG) provides academic researchers and practitioners with easy access to networked resources available worldwide. The Internet has become an invaluable tool for supporting education and research, however the proliferation of networked resources is causing increasing problems for users to locate and retrieve relevant information. Most are unwilling or simply do not have the time to learn to navigate through the maze of information available. The Social Science Information Gateway (SOSIG) aids the process of navigation by collecting and organising valuable social science resources available over the Internet. It also describes them, and these descriptions, and associated keywords, form the basis of a searchable database.