InfoGuides: Finding and Working with Data: Sources with Data

Last Updated: Feb 28, 2025 2:53 PM

Databases from RIT Libraries

Mintel
Contains market research, demographic and behavioral data
Passport
Consumer lifestyle and consumer industry market research reports for countries around the globe. Also includes downloadable economic, population, income, product and lifestyle data. DONATED: The McClure Collection given by J. Warren and Lois McClure in support of the RIT College of Business.
Hoovers (D&B Hoovers)
Contains data on companies such as company financials, competitive landscapes, and more
NetAdvantage
Information on companies, executives, industries, stocks, bonds, funds, dividends, and S&P investment advice. Great source for Industry Surveys for large public industries. B2C and B2B
SRDS Media Planning Platform
Contains media planning data such as circulation figures, viewership totals, and cost per minute calculations

You can use Google to easily search government websites by including site:.gov at the end of your search string.

Sample search: "global warming" data site:.gov

IPUMS
"IPUMS provides census and survey data from around the world integrated across time and space. IPUMS integration and documentation makes it easy to study change, conduct comparative research, merge information across data types, and analyze individuals within family and community contexts. Data and services available free of charge." Description from site

arXiv (Cornell University)
Open access e-prints in STEM fields
Internet Archive & Open Library
Over 10,000,000 fully accessible books and texts; Directions for downloading in bulk
Project Gutenberg
Contains over 100,000 titles; Terms of use
PubMed Central Databases and Text Mining Tools
Tools to analyze scholarly publications and other biomedical resources
BioMed Central
Over 250,000 articles available for text and data mining
Chronicling America (Library of Congress)
Digitized historical newspapers from 1836-1922