Additional Resources

If you are looking for data for a research project, consider using one of the publicly available data sets from the sites below.

The National Center for Education Statistics (NCES) is the federal government’s primary collector of data related to education, K-12 and higher education.

The United States Government‘s data repository holds more than a quarter-million datasets and data feeds, intended to be used by app developers and data scientists.

ICPSR, the Institute for Social Research at the University of Michigan, is a resource for social science data sets that have been shared by organizations and researchers for public use. Bowdoin College is an institutional member.

For more sources of data, visit Bowdoin Library's data repository guide or contact a research librarian.