ESRC Launches New Website for Social Sciences

The UK's largest funding agency for research and postgraduate training on social and economic issues - the Economic and Social Research Council (ESRC) - is soon to launch a brand new online initiative for social sciences research.

ESRC Society Today will offer academics, students and researchers unrivalled, free access to high quality social and economic research available, planned and in progress.

As well as bringing together all ESRC-funded research, the website will provide a gateway to other key online resources from the UK such as Social Science Information Gateway (SOSIG), the UK Data Archive and the Office of National Statistics – as well as international coverage from services such as Europa and Social Science Research Network (SSRN).

It will include early findings, full texts and original data sets and allow users to establish online discussion fora, track down researchers in their key subject fields or find details on ESRC funding and training opportunities. There will also be the facility to register for regular news bulletins and e-mail alerts on areas of interest and stay abreast of the latest research efficiently and effectively.

ESRC Society Today - www.esrcsocietytoday.ac.uk  – has already been scheduled to go live for a test period in March 2005 before being publicly launched in April 2005, replacing the current www.esrc.ac.uk  and www.regard.co.uk  sites. You can register for further information by e-mailing societytoday@esrc.ac.uk .

Third International Conference on Establishment Surveys (ICES-III)

June 18-21, 2007
Hyatt Regency Montréal
Montréal, Québec, Canada

Co-sponsored by: American Statistical Association (ASA), ASA Section on Survey Research Methods, ASA Section on Government Statistics, International Association of Survey Statisticians (IASS), and Statistical Society of Canada.

We invite you to submit proposals for invited paper sessions for presentations to the third International Conference on Establishment Surveys (ICES-III) by December 1, 2005. The ICES-III Program Committee will review the proposals and notify session organizers by the end of February 2006 if their proposal has been accepted or not. The specifics on the length of abstract, what information needs to be included in the abstract, and the abstract submission process will be available soon from the ICES web link: http://www.amstat.org/meetings/ices/2007/index.cfm.

All Conference activities will be held at the Hyatt Regency. The Hyatt Regency Montréal website is http://montreal.hyatt.com/ . Hotel reservations will be open on March 1, 2007. Further Conference information can be accessed on the ICES-III Web link.

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