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ICPSR Subject Thesaurus

Submitted by Anonymous on Wed, 2011-09-07 16:36

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Website:

http://www.icpsr.umich.edu/icpsrweb/shared/ICPSR/thesaurus/index

Maintained by:

University of Michigan, Inter-University Consortium for Political and Social Research

Structure:

Hierarchical

Number of entries:

3614

Last updated:

Current

The ICPSR Thesaurus is a controlled vocabulary system composed of three separate lists: Subject Thesaurus, Personal Names Authority List, and Geographic Names Thesaurus.

Inter-university Consortium for Political and Social Research (ICPSR) Thesaurus

Submitted by amanda on Tue, 2011-03-15 10:33

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Website:

http://www.icpsr.umich.edu/icpsrweb/shared/ICPSR/thesaurus/index

Maintained by:

Inter-university Consortium for Political and Social Research (ICPSR)

Structure:

Hierarchical

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OECD Macrothesaurus

Submitted by amanda on Fri, 2011-03-11 20:14

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Website:

http://bibliotecavirtual.clacso.org.ar/ar/oecd-macroth/

Maintained by:

Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD)

Structure:

Hierarchical

Last updated:

1991

European Language Social Science Thesaurus (ELSST)

Submitted by amanda on Thu, 2011-03-10 16:40

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Website:

http://elsst.esds.ac.uk/Home.aspx

Maintained by:

Council of European Social Science Data Archives (CESSDA)

Structure:

Hierarchical

Last updated:

Current

Will be translated into more languages. "The complete thesaurus, or any substantial part of the thesaurus, may not be reproduced, stored in a retrieval system or transmitted in any form or by any means, electronic, mechanical, photocopying, recording, or otherwise without the permission of the copyright holder."

Humanities and Social Science Electronic Thesaurus (HASSET)

Submitted by amanda on Thu, 2011-03-10 16:29

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Website:

http://www.data-archive.ac.uk/find/hasset-thesaurus

Maintained by:

UK Data Archive, University of Essex

Structure:

Hierarchical

Last updated:

Current

The thesaurus was initially based on the UNESCO Thesaurus (ISBN: 92-3-101469-2) and is continuously expanded and updated by the UK Data Archive. HASSET may be used by other organisations, for example to index materials, provided it is for non-commercial purposes and appropriate acknowledgement is given. A licence form allowing you to use or adapt HASSET in your own organisation can be requested from info@data-archive.ac.uk.