Search engines:
- Google Scholar http://scholar.google.com/
is an easy way to search for scholarly literature including many disciplines and sources: articles, theses, books, abstracts from academic publishers, professional societies, online repositories, universities and other web sites. - Find policy http://www.findpolicy.org/
is a fine repository to find leading policy research organizations in various fields. - Conference Alerts http://conferencealerts.com/
is an easy-to-use guide for the academic conference you are interested in. Conduct the search by the field of interest and/or country.
Reference styles:
- Academic Citation Resource Guide http://www.supersummary.com/citation-guide/
- Chicago Manual of Style https://owl.english.purdue.edu/owl/resource/717/01/
- Turabian Manual for Writers http://www.press.uchicago.edu/books/turabian/turabian_citationguide.html
Turabian is the official PSIA writing style to prepare your papers. This style is based on The Chicago Manual of Style with slight modifications.
Academic writing and publishing:
- Springer http://www.springer.com/authors/journal+authors/journal+authors+academy?SGWID=0-1726414-0-0-0 is a comprehensive guide to writing and publishing manuscripts.
- Zotero Bibliographic Software http://www.zotero.org/
is an easy research tool that helps gather and organize the bibliographic references for the purpose of acknowledging the relevance of others’ work and upholding intellectual honesty. - Purdue Online Writing Lab https://owl.english.purdue.edu/owl/
is a storage guide to writing and citation resources assisting in various kinds of writing projects.
Other:
- Think tanks http://gotothinktank.com/
is a global repository of think tanks including research data on and directory to think tanks worldwide. - Decision tree for statistics http://www.microsiris.com/Statistical%20Decision%20Tree/default. htm
is a useful source that provides a clear and detailed path on how to choose the statistical techniques for analyzing your data. - UK civil society almanac http://data.ncvo.org.uk/
provides facts and figures on the UK voluntary sector economy, volunteering and workforce.
Data on Armenia:
- National Statistical Service of Armenia http://www.armstat.am/en/
- Armenian Legal Information System http://www.arlis.am/
- Caucasus Research Resource Centers Armenia http://www.crrc.am/ (Caucasus Research Resource Centers regional http://www.crrccenters.org/)