PWAD 691H: Honors in Peace, War, and Defense: Gov Info & Data
Government Information
UNC holds over two million Federal, international, and state documents, but not all of these are in the catalog. Still, the catalog is a great place to start your research, particularly for documents published after 1976.
A few other useful sources for finding government information are below:
- ProQuest CongressionalComprehensive source of current and historical U.S. Congressional material, including bills, testimony, reports, documents, selected prints, the Congressional Record, the U.S. Code, Federal Register, and the Code of Federal Regulations.
- Digital National Security ArchiveContains a comprehensive set of declassified government documents and is a strong complement to the Declassified Documents Reference System. Includes collections of important primary source materials relative to U.S. foreign policy since 1945, accompanied by reference and secondary material.
- Foreign Relations of the United StatesOfficial documentary historical record of major U.S. foreign policy decisions and significant diplomatic activity.
Selected Data Sources
- UNdataProvides simultaneous access to 14 statistical databases from the United Nations and other international organizations through one interface. Areas of coverage include agriculture, education, energy, industry, labor, national accounts, population, tourism and trade. Includes Millennium Development Goals indicators, and UN Key Global Indicators.
- World Bank DataData sets directly from the World Bank. Find data by country, by topic, or by specific indicator, or go directly to "Data Catalog" for their open data sets.
- AidData.orgProvides open data that comes directly from major aid agencies such as the World Bank, African Development Bank, and others.
- ForeignAssistance.govTrack U.S. foreign assistance through interactive maps and country profiles.
- World Economics and Politics (WEP) DataverseData from 87 of the most commonly used data sources related to the field of international and comparative political economy. You can customize and download tailored datasets.
- ICPSRThe Inter-university Consortium for Political and Social Research (ICPSR) is the world's largest archive of computer readable social science data. ICPSR provides Web access to data files and documentation for use with statistical software, such as SAS, SPSS, and Stata. The ICPSR data holdings contains more than 500,000 files that cover a wide range of social science areas such as population, economics, education, health, social and political behavior, social and political attitudes, history, crime, aging, and substance abuse. Individual registration and adherence to responsible use statement are required.
Note: Off-campus access available if individual's account is created on campus or while authenticated.
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