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Research data resource with references to associated publications. Includes social sciences, physical sciences, life sciences, and arts and humanities research datasets. Coverage: 1900-present.
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Find global development research for policy and practice including policy documents, reports, grey literature from governmental and non-governmental organizations (NGOs). Organized by key themes (nutrition, environment, children, education, health, etc.) and country/region.
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One-stop resource for data on infectious diseases (over 2,000 pathogens). Provides information on diseases: history of outbreaks back to 1348AD, geographic spread, and treatment. Includes a visualization tool to create charts as well as a differential diagnosis tool. Information updated daily to provide the most current information.

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The Inter-University Consortium for Political & Social Research (ICPSR) maintains a dataset archive of research in the social and behavioral sciences. It hosts 21 specialized collections of data in education, aging, criminal justice, substance abuse, terrorism, and other fields. 

Each study's dataset provides documentation (e.g. codebook), and a bibliography of published articles that used the data. Data offered in many formats.

 Must create an ICPSR account to download data. Coverage: 1700s-present.

 

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A digital library of primary sources in American social history from the antebellum period through reconstruction. Coverage: 19th century.
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Contains summaries of criminal justice publications, including Federal, State, and local government reports, books, research reports, journal articles, and unpublished research. Sponsored by the U.S. Department of Justice.
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Offer concise introductions (ebooks) to a diverse range of subjects from Climate to Consciousness, Game Theory to Ancient Warfare, Privacy to Islamic History, Economics to Literary Theory.

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Focused on public policy research and issues. Includes international journal articles, books, government documents, statistical directories, grey literature, research reports, conference reports, and publications of international agencies. Does not include newspapers. Coverage: 1915-present.

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Essays, scholarly journal articles, news articles and primary documents that present multiple perspectives on current and controversial topics. Helpful for debating, developing arguments, and writing position papers. Coverage: 2010-present.
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Visualize and map thousands of socioeconomic variables covering the United States (local to national). Create reports on specific Census geographies. Download reports, data, and maps. Coverage: 2000-present.

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An archive for storing/sharing data generated through qualitative and multi-method research in the social sciences. It also serves as a portal to material beyond its own holdings, with links to U.S. and international archives. The repository’s initial emphasis is on political science.
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Public opinion polling data from U.S. and international polling firms on a broad range of topics including opinions and behavior on social issues, politics, pop culture, international affairs. Download datasets and tables. Coverage: 1935 to present.

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Supports the teaching and learning of research methods and skills through structured online learning that is self-paced and led by an expert. Topics include: cleaning data, conducting interviews, Python, research design, literature reviews, AI, getting published, etc. NOTE: UNM Guide for Sage Campus

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Over 1,000 research methods ebooks, articles, case studies, and videos from Sage and other sources provide guidance on the process for conducting qualitative and quantitative research (e.g. research design, interviewing, focus groups, regression analysis, models, advanced statistics).
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Map various demographic and socioeconomic variables from United States Census, Statistics Canada, UK Data Centre, and Eurostat. Download maps/data. Coverage: 1790-present.

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Provides acccess to research on social work, human services, social welfare, social policy, and community development. Coverage: 1980-present.
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