The Think Tanks page on the Statistical Resources for Political Science site (U of Michigan Documents Center) lists several comprehensive directories of think tanks. It also features an alphabetical list of major think tanks and links to their web sites. Another comprehensive directory is the World Think Tank Directory from the Policy Library. Also, the…
Sponsored by the American Economic Association, the RFE site lists and annotates 2,100 resources including datasets, data catalogs, metasites, and much more. This is a great place to get a sense of available data or to start a search for data.
Paul Hensel’s International Relations Data Site is my favorite place to start a search for IR data or statistics. Searchable and very well organized, every source is annotated with study-level description, spatial-temporal scope and variables included. Categories are: International data (general) International conflict and cooperation data International economic data International environmental data International political data…
SOSIG is an excellent metasite of online resources in the social sciences. I use this site frequently to find statistics and data sources, digital libraries, open source publications, governement and ngo agencies that publish on a topic, and other free sources. Every source is selected, indexed, and annotated, which makes it easy to search the…
The NCES web site is an abundant source of education data and statistics. Just one example of elegant web delivery of statistical information from their site is the State Education Data Profiles. Each results page offers download and graphing options. Search for statewide information in elementary/secondary education characteristics and finance, postsecondary education, public libraries, assessments,…
The Minorities at Risk project at the University of Maryland provides access to their MAR Data and qualitative risk assessments from the web site. The project is based at the Center for International Development and Conflict Management (CIDCM). MAR tracks 284 politically-active ethnic groups throughout the world from 1945 to the present — identifying where…
EH.net or the Economic History Services web site is an excellent resource for resources of interest to Economic Historians. However, whenever you are looking for historical economic data, check the EH.net databases page, which includes a range of U.S. and global historical data series that have been submitted to the site.
Data on the Net From the University of California, San Diego’s searchable listing of 850 Internet sites of numeric Social Science statistical data, data catalogs, data libraries, social science gateways, addresses and more.
MEMDB contains five large data sets, three pertaining to currency exchanges and two pertaining to prices.
AgEcon Search AgNIC: Agricultural and Applied Economics Resources on the Internet is a web site from the Magrath Library at the University of Minnesota. Part of the Agriculture Network Information Center, it provides a starting point for research in agriculture economics. Included are full-text resource, including a searchable bibliographical database of agricultural and applied economics…