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Data Guide: Working with Data

A guide to citing, managing, and incorporating data into your research.

Using this Guide

Working with data? The library can help!

This guide contains resources for finding and incorporating data into your research process, including search strategies, citation, and data management tips.

  • Finding a Dataset: strategies to use and places to look for data.
  • Using Data: considerations for using and citing data sources.
  • Glossary: a list of terms and their definitions. 
  • List of Data Sources by Topic: a long list of places to search for data, organized by their subject.

Don't see what you need? Want some help navigating? Schedule an appointment with a librarian! 

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Helpful Dataset Sources

While this guide includes more than 50 different sources for datasets, these are our favorite interdisciplinary data repositories that cover a wide range of topics. Many (but not all) datasets in these sources have great documentation (i.e. data dictionaries and other information about how the data was collected). They have a lot of datasets and are relatively easy to use and search. 

Schedule a Meeting with a Librarian

Have questions about the research process? Don't struggle, reach out to a librarian for help! Students interested in research support can book a meeting with a librarian to:

  • Narrow down research topic ideas
  • Find background information
  • Save time getting started with your research
  • Use the library’s collections as well as worldwide and web resources
  • Choose databases for discipline-focused research
  • Learn more efficient searching method

 

To make an appointment, reach out to a subject librarian.