LibraryGuides: Political Science & International Relations: Library Resources

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Creighton University Reinert-Alumni Library 2500 California Plaza
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Subjects: Anthropology, Cultural Studies, History, Modern Languages, Modern Literatures, Political Science, Social Sciences, Social Work, Sociology

Videos

Academic Video Online (AVON)
Streaming video collections from Alexander Street Press in a range of disciplines in the arts, social sciences, science, and business.
Films On Demand
A streaming platform for videos on a full range of academic subjects.
Kanopy
A video streaming platform with a broad selection of streaming video titles for educational purposes, including documentaries, independent and foreign films, classics, and feature films.

Datasets

Tips for Finding Datasets

U.S. Census Data
Replaces American FactFinder. U.S. Census data portal on population and housing, including aging, disability, education, employment, poverty, language, race, and ethnicity.
American National Election Studies (ANES)
A collaboration of Stanford University and the University of Michigan, producing data on voting, public opinion, and political participation.
Registry of Open Data on AWS
Centralized repository of public data sets hosted by Amazon Web Services.
Bureau of Justice Statistics
Department of Justice federal crime statistics released as searchable data
https://www.bjs.gov/
Data.gov
The purpose of Data.gov is to increase public access to high value, machine readable datasets generated by the Executive Branch of the Federal Government
Dataverse.org
An open source web application for sharing and locating datasets in the social and physical sciences.
GDELT
"Global Data on Events, Location, and Tone," a constantly updated dataset of news events.
General Social Survey (GSS)
Provides access to questionnaires, codebooks and dowloadable datasets regarding the structure and development of the American society. Requires users to create an account.
Global Consumption Database
Extensive consumption data on economically developing countries for research and market analysis.
ICPSR
The Inter-University Consortium for Political and Social Research (ICPSR) maintains a data archive of 500,000 files in the social sciences.
Open Science Data Cloud
"Repository for public data sets of scientific interest, hosted on the OSDC."
Pew Research Internet Project Datasets
Raw data sets from the Pew Research Center, available as single compressed archive files (.zip file).
Varieties of Democracy (V-Dem) Dataset
From the website: A unique approach to conceptualizing and measuring democracy.