Andreas Dür
This is some of the open-source software that I recommend for academic work:
Zotero: This is a Firefox extension that helps you collect and cite research sources.
R: This is a software for statistics and graphs. For an excellent online tutorial see Quick-R. SimpleR is a more extensive manual. OnePageR is a further great resource. RStudio, an integrated development environment, facilitates working with R.
Latex Beamer: This is a Latex extension that allows you to produce professional presentations.
Limesurvey: An open-source software to produce online surveys.
EUGene: Software to produce dyadic datasets.
Social Science blogs:
The Monkey Cage: popular political science blog
Statistical Modeling: Blog by Andrew Gelman
VoxEU: blog by economists on European integration
Academic blogs: list of blogs in a variety of academic disciplines
Probaby overthinking it: a statistics blog
And some interesting IPE pages:
IPE Zone: an interesting blog covering IPE topics.
IPE at UNC: another IPE blog.https://sites.google.com/site/andduer/links?pli=1
For those with an interest in trade policy:
For those with an interest in interest groups:
News sources on the EU:
And finally some data sources:
UN data: page bringing together data on various topics
ISA Compendium Datasets: all major IR datasets
CEPII: among other things, data on distances, trade, tariffs etc.
Political Regime Characteristics (Polity IV)
Infochimps: a data archive
GESIS: survey data
European Values Study: survey data
Penn World Table: GDP data
COW Trade Data: Trade data for 1870-2006
Data Market: data archive
EASY: data archive
BITSel: data on the contents of international investment agreements
Andreas Duer, Department of Political Science and Sociology, University of Salzburg, 5020 Salzburg, Austria