DSS maintains the University Data Library and provides reference and consulting support to users of electronic data. The Data Library is a collection of over 24,000 machine-readable files. Electronic data is gathered primarily for the social sciences but also for the sciences and humanities.
Data are available for the United States and foreign countries.
The Data Library includes extensive holdings for Economic Time Series and U.S. Census Data, and a range of other subject areas spanning historical and contemporary events, factual and opinion-oriented studies, and single and multiple country coverage. The Data Librarian can help you in identifying data files that meet your research needs, whether the data is part of the Data Library or available elsewhere. If you are unsure of which specific data The Data Librarian and other DSS staff can show you how to use the Data Library Online Catalog to locate data files and documentation within the Data Library. The DSS Consultants can help you access and use data from the Data Library or from other sources. This includes everything from obtaining subsets of the data to analyzing the data to interpreting and reporting results.