A list of digital repositories, databases and online tools useful for online research are offered here.

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INTERNET STUDIES RESEARCH RESOURCES

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Creative Common- http://creativecommons.org
Resources for open source copyright of online and digital materials

 

Internet Archive: Way Back Time Machine- http://www.archive.org/web/web.php
Web page Archive for accessing previous versions of websites

 

Historical Software Collection: https://archive.org/details/historicalsoftware
Archive of historically important software packages, especially vintage video games

 

Know Your Meme: http://knowyourmeme.com
Provides documentation of the roots and evolution of various Internet memes

 

DIGITAL TOOLS

 

Amazon Web Services – http://aws.amazon.com/datasets
Online services for computer based research. Acts as a cloud creates research pipeline and offers analyzing services of big data.

 

Linked Data - http://linkeddata.org/
Using the Web to connect related data that wasn't previously linked, or using the Web to lower the barriers to linking data currently linked using other methods

 

Rattle - http://rattle.togaware.com/
A Graphical User Interface for Data Mining using R

 

Wordle - http://www.wordle.net/
A tool for generating “word clouds” from text that you provide

 

NodeXL- http://research.microsoft.com/en-us/projects/nodexl/
Helps conduct hashtag searches on the Twitter network

 

ONLINE REPOSITORIES AND ARCHIVES FOR RELIGION DATA

 

Arda - http://www.thearda.com/learningcenter/otherresources.asp
Association of religion data archives

 

Berman Jewish DataBank - http://www.jewishdatabank.org/
Quantitative data North American Jewry

 

Christian Research Association (Australia) - http://www.cra.org.au/
Up-to-date and reliable information about religious faith and church life in Australia

 

Database of Megachurches in the U.S. - http://hirr.hartsem.edu/megachurch/database.html
Information on megachurches in the United States

 

Faith Communities Today - http://www.faithcommunitiestoday.org/
Series of ongoing research surveys and practical reports about congregational life in the US

 

Gallup polls about religion - http://www.gallup.com/poll/1690/Religion.aspx
Polls about religion

 

GSS - http://www3.norc.org/GSS+Website/
Data analysis of many issues including religion

 

Global Religious Landscape - http://www.pewforum.org/2012/12/18/global-religious-landscape-exec/
Demographic study – based on analysis of more than 2,500 censuses, surveys and population registers

 

Library of Tibetan Works and Archives - http://www.ltwa.net/library/
Collections of manuscripts and books in Tibetan and English

 

National Congregations Study - http://www.soc.duke.edu/natcong/
Surveys and gathers information about a representative sample of America's churches, synagogues, mosques and other local places of worship.

 

ONLINE REPOSITORIES FOR CULTURE/SOCIAL SCIENCE DATA

 

DataBib - http://databib.org/search.php?startrow=-1#R

Data repositories for almost any issue related to social and cultural studies

 

Finnish Social Science - http://www.fsd.uta.fi/en/
Data Archive resource center for social science research and teaching. Data themes include children and family, elderly and ageing, Finnish elections, poverty and religion

 

Quandl - http://www.quandl.com/
Financial, economic, and social datasets

 

World Values Survey website - http://www.worldvaluessurvey.org/index_html
Values and cultural changes in societies all over the world

 

RESOURCES FOR STUDYING RELIGION ONLINE

 

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