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Antarctic Digital Database Dates vary The Scientific Committee on Antarctic Research (SCAR) Antarctic Digital Database (ADD) consists of geographic information layers including coastline, ice-shelf grounding line, rock outcrop, contour... Access Database Antarctic Digital Database
Atlas of Historical County Boundaries 1629 - 2000 The Atlas of Historical County Boundaries presents in maps and text complete data about the creation and all subsequent changes (dated to the day) in the size, shape, and location of every county i... Access Database Atlas of Historical County Boundaries
Big Ten Academic Alliance Geoportal Present The Big Ten Academic Alliance Geoportal provides discoverability and facilitates access to geospatial resources. The resources in the portal are selected and curated by librarians and geospatial sp... Access Database Big Ten Academic Alliance Geoportal
Center for International Earth Science Information Network Dates vary CIESIN’s mission is to provide access to and enhance the use of information worldwide, advancing understanding of human interactions in the environment and serving the needs of science and public a... Access Database Center for International Earth Science Information Network
Central Africa Regional Program for the Environment (CARPE) Dates vary The Central Africa Regional Program for the Environment (CARPE) is a USAID initiative aimed at promoting sustainable natural resource management in the Congo Basin. The Congo Basin forest is the se... Access Database Central Africa Regional Program for the Environment (CARPE)
China Historical Geographic Information System 221 BCE - 1911 CE The China Historical Geographic Information System (CHGIS) project was launched in January 2001 to establish a database of populated places and historical administrative units for the period of Chi... Access Database China Historical Geographic Information System
Famine Early Warning Systems Network Data Portal Dates vary The U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID) Famine Early Warning Systems Network (FEWS NET) is an information system designed to identify problems in the food supply system that potential... Access Database Famine Early Warning Systems Network Data Portal
Forest Service Geodata Clearinghouse (US) Dates Vary The USDA Forest Service Geodata Clearinghouse is an online collection of downloadable digital geospatial data. Included in this resource are the Land Status Record System Data (LSRS), a collection ... Access Database Forest Service Geodata Clearinghouse (US)
Geo.Data.gov Dates vary Geo.Data.gov, part of the federal Data.gov initiative, currently provides access to over 400,000 geospatial datasets. Users can interact with the data via web mapping services and can download actu... Access Database Geo.Data.gov
GeoCommons Dates vary GeoCommons.com is a free service for public data and maps. It enables anyone in the world to quickly and easily share data, visualizations, and analysis. Geospatial data found here is largely crowd... Access Database GeoCommons
GeoData@Wisconsin Present GeoData@Wisconsin provides direct download access to Wisconsin geospatial data collected and archived by the Robinson Map Library at UW-Madison. Datasets from state, county, and local government pr... Access Database GeoData@Wisconsin
GeoGratis Canada Dates vary GeoGratis is a portal provided by the Earth Sciences Sector (ESS) of Natural Resources Canada (NRCan) which provides geospatial data at no cost and without restrictions via your Web browser. The da... Access Database GeoGratis Canada
GeoScience Australia Dates vary GeoScience Australia's spatial information activities focus on providing key spatial information of Australia with an emphasis on response to rapid and slow onset hazards, the detection of change, ... Access Database GeoScience Australia
GetFacts (Wisconsin) 2000 - GetFacts, the flagship website of the UW-Madison Applied Population Lab, is the first of its kind online interactive mapping and data extraction tool for Wisconsin demographic statistics. GetFacts ... Access Database GetFacts (Wisconsin)
Global Land Cover Facility (GLCF) Dates vary The Global Land Cover Facility (GLCF) provides earth science data and products to help everyone to better understand global environmental systems. In particular, the GLCF develops and distributes r... Access Database Global Land Cover Facility (GLCF)
LandScan Global Population Database 2000 - 2012 LandScan is a global population database that shows geographical distribution of population at one-kilometer resolution over an average 24 hour period. The LandScan algorithm uses spatial data and ... Access Database LandScan Global Population Database
National Map (United States) Dates vary Use The National Map Viewer and Download Platform to visualize, inspect, and download the most current topographic base map data and products for free. Managed by the United States Geological Surve... Access Database National Map (United States)
National Wetlands Inventory Data (United States) Dates vary The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service is the principal Federal agency that provides information to the public on the extent and status of the Nation's wetlands. The agency has developed a series of to... Access Database National Wetlands Inventory Data (United States)
Natural Earth Current Natural Earth is a public domain map dataset available at 1:10m, 1:50m, and 1:110 million scales. Featuring tightly integrated vector and raster data, with Natural Earth you can make a variety of v... Access Database Natural Earth
Natural Resources Conservation Service Geospatial Data Gateway Dates vary The Geospatial Data Gateway is a service made available through a close partnership between the three Service Center Agencies (SCA); Natural Resources Conservation Service (NRCS), Farm Service Agen... Access Database Natural Resources Conservation Service Geospatial Data Gateway
PolicyMap Online data and mapping tool for creating custom reports of data related to demographics, real estate, health, jobs, the environment, education and more. Data comes from authoritative public and pr... Access Database PolicyMap
Spatial Information Management for Food and Agriculture Dates vary Appropriate geo-referenced information on physical and socio-economic resources for agriculture in the broadest sense (including forestry and fisheries) is of substantial value in the analysis of e... Access Database Spatial Information Management for Food and Agriculture
TIGER/Line Geodatabases (United States Census Bureau) 1990 - present The U.S. Census Bureau's Topologically Integrated Geographic Encoding and Referencing System data (TIGER/Line) are the most detailed geospatial data files available for mapping census demographic s... Access Database TIGER/Line Geodatabases (United States Census Bureau)
United States Department of Agriculture - Cropland Data Layer 1997 - present The USDA-National Agricultural Statistics Service (NASS) Cropland Data Layer (CDL) is a publicly available geospatial raster dataset showing crop-specific land cover classification that focuses pri... Access Database United States Department of Agriculture - Cropland Data Layer
Wisconsin Geological and Natural History Survey Digital Datasets Current Maps, records, and reports (including interpretations and recommendations produced by the WGNHS) provide basic data for resource, land-use, and environmental management. Digital datasets derived fr... Access Database Wisconsin Geological and Natural History Survey Digital Datasets
WisconsinView 1992 - present Since 2004, WisconsinView has made aerial photography and satellite imagery of Wisconsin available to the public for free over the web. As part of the AmericaView consortium, WisconsinView supports... Access Database WisconsinView

Social Sciences Databases

Data-Planet Statistical Datasets 1930s - present Provides simple and refined searching of the Data-Planet repository of standardized and structured statistical data, and others. Datasets include public-domain and licensed information. Users can s... Access Database Data-Planet Statistical Datasets
Historical Statistics of the United States (Millennial Edition Online) Colonial period of U.S. - present The Millennial Edition is the definitive source of statistics and data about the United States and is a key resource for American history research from Colonial times to the present. This is an upd... Access Database Historical Statistics of the United States (Millennial Edition Online)
IMF Data including International Financial Statistics (IFS) 1948 - present The IMF eLibrary Data contains a range of time series data on IMF lending, exchange rates, and other economic and financial indicators. The International Financial Statistcs (IFS) has been one of I... Access Database IMF Data including International Financial Statistics (IFS)
Inter-university Consortium for Political and Social Research (ICPSR) Dates Vary; ICPSR was founded in 1962 ICPSR maintains and provides access to a large archive of quantitative social science data for research and instruction. The ICPSR data holdings contain around 5000 studies and 50,000 files coverin... Access Database Inter-university Consortium for Political and Social Research (ICPSR)
International Historical Statistics 1750-2010 IHS is a collection of historical statistics from over 260 years and more than 200 countries & territories across a multitude of interdisciplinary socio-economic topics. Subjects include population... Access Database International Historical Statistics
Latin American Mortality Database (LAMBdA) 1848-2014 The Latin American Mortality Database (LAMBdA) is a project at the University of Wisconsin-Madison that is directed by Dr. Alberto Palloni of the Department of Sociology. Originally created to supp... Access Database Latin American Mortality Database (LAMBdA)
OECD iLibrary 1998 - 8/31/2019 NOTE: This resource was cancelled on 9/1/2019, after which access will be limited to content published prior to 9/1/2019, and will not include any updates to content made after that date. OECD iLib... Access Database OECD iLibrary
Polling the Nations 1986 - present Polling the Nations is a compilation of questions and responses from more than 14,000 national, state, local and special surveys in the U.S. and more than 80 other countries. The surveys contain in... Access Database Polling the Nations
ProQuest Statistical Insight 1973 - present NOTE: This database was cancelled effective, July 1, 2020. If you need assistance in finding an alternative database, use the Contact Us link at the bottom of this page. Statistical Insight contain... Access Database ProQuest Statistical Insight
Roper Center for Public Opinion Research 1935 - present The Roper Center for Public Opinion Research at Cornell University is an archive of over 22,000 datasets from polls conducted by survey research organizations, both in the U.S. and internationally.... Access Database Roper Center for Public Opinion Research
Social Explorer 1790 - Social Explorer is an online research tool designed to provide quick and easy access to current and historical U.S. census data and demographic information. The easy-to-use web interface lets users... Access Database Social Explorer
UN Commodity Trade Statistics Database (UN Comtrade) 1962 - present Worldwide trade data by commodity, including country-to-country information. It contains well over 1.7 billion data records for the past 45 years. (Includes most recently completed year.) Access Database UN Commodity Trade Statistics Database (UN Comtrade)
World Bank Data The World Bank Group provides free online access to its comprehensive set of data on living standards around the globe--some 2,000 indicators, including hundreds that go back 50 years. The data is ... Access Database World Bank Data

Also Helpful Databases

Data Citation Index 1900 - present The Data Citation Index provides a single point of access to quality research data from repositories across disciplines and around the world. Through linked content and summary information, this da... Access Database Data Citation Index
NOAA National Centers for Environmental Information (NCEI) Dates Vary Within NCEI, there is access to various data holdings from the Center for Weather and Climate, Coasts, Oceans, and Geophysics. Land-based, marine, model, radar, weather balloon, satellite, paleocli... Access Database NOAA National Centers for Environmental Information (NCEI)
PolicyMap Online data and mapping tool for creating custom reports of data related to demographics, real estate, health, jobs, the environment, education and more. Data comes from authoritative public and pr... Access Database PolicyMap