Note that some sources require memberships or have restrictions on use. Please contact the library for help.
NYU Current News Research Guide
Detailed guide for activating New York Times and Wall Street Journal accounts through NYU Libraries.
Data Archives - Data Sources - Research Guides at New York University
Political Science Data - Political Science - Research Guides at University of Michigan Library
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African Statistical Yearbook (AfDB)
https://www.afdb.org/en/knowledge/publications/african-statistical-yearbook
Annual economic, demographic, and development statistics for African countries.
Arab Barometer
https://www.arabbarometer.org/
Public opinion survey data on political and social attitudes in the Arab world.
Arab Center Washington DC – Public Opinion Surveys
https://arabcenterdc.org/publications/public-opinion-surveys/
Survey datasets and reports focused on the Middle East.
CESSDA Data Catalogue (Consortium on European Social Science Data Archives)
https://www.cessda.eu/data/
Central catalogue of European social science datasets across national archives.
CLOSER Studies
https://www.closer.ac.uk/
UK longitudinal studies on health, education, and social outcomes.
DataCite Commons
https://search.datacite.org/
Search engine for research datasets with DOIs across repositories.
Demographic and Health Surveys (DHS Program)
https://dhsprogram.com/
Internationally comparable data on health, fertility, and population.
Dryad
https://datadryad.org/search
Open-access repository for research datasets.
Eurobarometer
https://www.gesis.org/eurobarometer-data-service/home
Public opinion surveys across European Union countries.
Eurostat
https://ec.europa.eu/eurostat
European Union datasets
European Social Survey (ESS)
http://www.europeansocialsurvey.org/
Cross-national survey data on attitudes and demographics in Europe.
General Social Survey (GSS)
https://gss.norc.org/
Long-running U.S. survey of social attitudes and demographics.
Google Dataset Search
https://datasetsearch.research.google.com/
Search tool indexing datasets across thousands of repositories.
Harvard Dataverse
https://dataverse.harvard.edu/
Open repository for research datasets across disciplines.
Health and Retirement Study (HRS)
https://hrs.isr.umich.edu/about
Longitudinal U.S. data on aging, health, and retirement.
Humanitarian Data Exchange (HDX)
https://data.humdata.org/
Open datasets on humanitarian crises and development.
ICPSR (Inter-University Consortium for Political and Social Research)
https://www.icpsr.umich.edu/
Major archive of social science datasets (many require institutional access).
Indices of Social Development (ISD)
https://isd.iss.nl/
Country-level indicators on social inclusion and institutional quality.
Institute of International Finance – MENAP & Central Asia
https://www.iif.com/Research/MENAP-Central-Asia
Macroeconomic and financial data for MENAP and Central Asia regions.
International Social Survey Programme (ISSP)
https://issp.org/
Cross-national survey data on social science topics.
IPUMS (USA)
https://www.ipums.org/
Harmonized U.S. census and survey microdata.
IPUMS International
https://international.ipums.org/international/
Harmonized international census microdata.
MENA Data
http://www.menadata.net/
Socioeconomic and political data for the Middle East and North Africa.
OpenAIRE
https://explore.openaire.eu/search/find
European open science platform for datasets and research outputs.
Penn World Table (PWT)
https://www.rug.nl/ggdc/productivity/pwt/
Cross-country economic and national accounts data.
Polity Project
https://www.systemicpeace.org/polityproject.html
Data on political regimes and regime change.
re3data – Registry of Research Data Repositories
https://www.re3data.org/
Global directory of research data repositories.
Simmons OAD Data Repositories Wiki
https://oad.simmons.edu/oadwiki/Data_repositories
Curated list of open-access data repositories by subject.
Survey of Consumer Finances (SCF)
https://www.federalreserve.gov/econres/scfindex.htm
Detailed U.S. household finance data.
U.S. Census Bureau
https://data.census.gov/
U.S. population, housing, and demographic data.
UAE Federal Competitiveness and Statistics Centre (FCSC)
https://fcsc.gov.ae/en-us
Official national statistics for the UAE.
UN Data
https://data.un.org/
United Nations statistical databases across many domains.
UN ESCWA Statistics
https://archive.unescwa.org/our-work/statistics
Economic and social data focused on Western Asia.
World Values Survey (WVS)
https://www.worldvaluessurvey.org/WVSContents.jsp
Cross-national survey data on values, beliefs, and social attitudes.
Ancient World Mapping Center GIS Data
https://awmc.unc.edu/resources/gis-data/
Historical and archaeological GIS datasets.
CURIOSity Digital Collections (Harvard)
https://curiosity.lib.harvard.edu/
Digitized maps and geospatial collections.
David Rumsey Historical Map Collection
https://www.davidrumsey.com/
High-resolution historical maps.
DIVA-GIS
https://www.diva-gis.org/
Free GIS data (administrative boundaries, roads, etc.).
Europeana – Maps and Geography
https://www.europeana.eu/en/collections/topic/18-maps-and-geography
Cultural heritage maps and spatial resources.
GADM Administrative Area Maps
https://gadm.org/
Global administrative boundary shapefiles.
Latitude and Longitude Finder
https://www.latlong.net/
Tool for finding geographic coordinates.
NYU Spatial Data Repository
https://geo.nyu.edu/
Academic geospatial datasets (institutional access may be required).
Princeton Digital Maps and Geospatial Data
https://maps.princeton.edu/
Geospatial datasets and historical maps.
Projection Wizard
https://projectionwizard.org/
Tool for selecting map projections and coordinate systems.
Qatar Digital Library
https://www.qdl.qa/
Historical maps and geospatial materials focused on the Gulf.
University of Texas Libraries GeoData
https://geodata.lib.utexas.edu/
Large collection of GIS datasets.
Wiley Digital Archives – Maps
https://www.wileydigitalarchives.com/
Historical maps and spatial collections (subscription-based).
Worldview (NASA)
https://worldview.earthdata.nasa.gov/
Satellite imagery and Earth observation data.