ENVI 493: Senior Thesis Research Seminar: Primary Sources

Worldcat aggregates library catalogs from throughout the US and the world. You can refine your search results by type of material to focus on archives and manuscripts.

Repository of government datasets -- a great starting point for research.

United Nations Data Search Engine. You can narrow your searching by subject area, such as UN Environmental Databases

Both a topical collection of United States governmental data and a multifaceted visualization tool.

Datasets and visualizations addressing a selection of current global issues, arranged topically. A collaborative project between researchers at the University of Oxford and the Global Change Data Lab (GCDL).

The Harvard Dataverse Repository is a free data repository open to all researchers from any discipline, both inside and outside of the Harvard community, where you can share, archive, cite, access, and explore research data.

Search for datasets in Google.

European statistics clearinghouse.

The UK Data Service provides access to over 7,000 digital data collections for research and teaching purposes covering an extensive range of key economic and social data, both quantitative and qualitative, and spanning many disciplines and themes. Note: you will need to request a username. Only open data sets are generally available outside the UK.

Provides information about open, restricted, and closed access research data repositories throughout the world in the humanities and social sciences, life sciences, natural sciences, and engineering sciences.

An archive of unique, interesting, and curious datasets from the weekly Data is Plural newsletter.

IMDB makes subsets of its data available for noncommercial use in gzipped, tab-separated value format.

Open digital library of public policy research.

Open digital library of reports, whitepapers, evaluations, case studies, issue briefs, and more

The National Archives preserves documents and records of the US Federal Government. Only a portion of their collection is available online; look for records indicating online holdings.

Searches across and provides access to the more than 300 digital collections created by the Library of Congress. Includes photos, prints, drawings, maps, books, manuscripts, audio recordings, films, notated music, newspapers, and archived websites.

Contains digitized maps from the Perry-Castañeda Library Map Collection arranged by historical time period and provides links to other digitized historical map collections.

Natural history, botanical, research, and national libraries working together to digitize the natural history literature held in their collections and make it freely available for open access as part of a global "biodiversity community."

Provides a gateway to open access resources about human participation in, and understandings of, the environment. The Multimedia Library includes images, podcasts, scholarly texts, documentary films, and other materials.

Documents the historical formation and cultural foundations of the movement to conserve and protect America's natural heritage, through books, pamphlets, government documents, manuscripts, prints, photographs, and motion picture footage drawn from the collections of the Library of Congress.

Networks scholars and others interested in the rapidly growing field of Environmental History. Contains discussions, book reviews, resources, and links.

Provides access to digitized historic photographs, citations to published items on environmental history topics, U.S. Forest Service history materials, descriptions of archival collections from North American repositories, and much more.

Agricultural texts published between the early nineteenth century and late twentieth century. These full-text materials cover agricultural economics, agricultural engineering, animal science, crops and their protection, food science, forestry, human nutrition, rural sociology, and soil science.

Natural history, botanical, research, and national libraries working together to digitize the natural history literature held in their collections and make it freely available for open access as part of a global "biodiversity community."

Collected historic photographs, personal papers, and research library of Gerald "Jerry" Williams, former national historian for the U.S. Forest Service.