Master Resource Library
A categorized, alphabetized directory of high-value resources. Each list is alphabetical within its category.
Index
- A. General & Global Data Portals
- AA. Cybersecurity & Vulnerabilities
- AB. Energy & Utilities Data
- AC. Courts, Dockets & Regulatory Comments
- AD. Elections & Civics
- AE. Federal Spending & Procurement
- AF. Patents & Intellectual Property
- AG. Transportation (Additional)
- AH. Media, News & Web-Scale Datasets
- AI. Agriculture, Food & Ecology (Additional)
- AJ. Research Metadata & Scholarly IDs
- AK. Real Estate & Housing (Advanced)
- AL. Meteorology, Disasters & Hazards
- AM. New York & Capital Region — Additional Local Data
- AN. University Research & Data Repositories
- AO. Cross-University & Global Academic Repositories
- B. U.S. Economy & Finance
- C. Justice, Public Safety & Law Enforcement (U.S. Federal)
- D. Health & Public Health
- E. Environment & Climate
- F. Mapping & Geospatial
- G. Transportation
- H. Education
- I. Housing & Consumer
- J. Agriculture & Food
- K. Social, Media, and Google Data & Stats
- L. New York (State & City) — Law Enforcement and Justice
- L.1 Albany — Law Enforcement and Justice (City of Albany)
- M. Massachusetts — Law Enforcement and Justice
- N. Science, Space & Earth Observation
- O. Additional U.S. Government APIs / Entrypoints
- P. Source Code & Web Development
- Q. Open Source
- R. Law
- S. History
- T. Philosophy
- U. Psychology
- V. News & Journalism
- W. Scientific & Academic Research
- Y. Social & Opinion Research
A. General & Global Data Portals
- CIA World Factbook — https://www.cia.gov/the-world-factbook/
- Data.gov (U.S. open data) — https://www.data.gov/
- Eurostat — https://ec.europa.eu/eurostat
- Google Public Data Directory — https://www.google.com/publicdata/directory
- OECD Data — https://data.oecd.org/
- UNdata / UNdata Explorer — https://data.un.org/
- World Bank Data — https://data.worldbank.org/
B. U.S. Economy & Finance
- BEA — Developers (API) — https://www.bea.gov/resources/for-developers
- Bloomberg (subscription) — https://www.bloomberg.com/professional/
- BLS — Data — https://www.bls.gov/data/ · API — https://www.bls.gov/developers/home.htm
- FRED (Federal Reserve Economic Data) — https://fred.stlouisfed.org/
- S&P Capital IQ Pro (subscription) — https://www.spglobal.com/marketintelligence/en/campaigns/capital-iq-platform
- SEC EDGAR — Search — https://www.sec.gov/edgar/search/ · EDGAR APIs — https://www.sec.gov/search-filings/edgar-application-programming-interfaces
- U.S. Treasury Fiscal Data — https://fiscaldata.treasury.gov/ · MTS — https://www.fiscal.treasury.gov/reports-statements/mts/current.html
- Yahoo Finance — https://finance.yahoo.com/
C. Justice, Public Safety & Law Enforcement (U.S. Federal)
- ATF — Data & Statistics — https://www.atf.gov/resource-center/data-statistics · Trace (2023) — https://www.atf.gov/resource-center/firearms-trace-data-2023
- BJS — Data — https://bjs.ojp.gov/data
- BOP — Statistics — https://www.bop.gov/about/statistics/ · Population — https://www.bop.gov/about/statistics/population_statistics.jsp
- FBI — CDE (Crime Data Explorer) — https://cde.ucr.cjis.gov/
- FBI — Hate Crime Statistics — https://www.justice.gov/hatecrimes/hate-crime-statistics
- FBI — LEOKA — https://ucr.fbi.gov/leoka · Archive (2018) — https://ucr.fbi.gov/leoka/2018/downloads/download-files
- FBI — NICS Checks: Month/Year by State — https://www.fbi.gov/file-repository/cjis/nics_firearm_checks_-_month_year_by_state.pdf/view · Day/Month/Year — https://www.fbi.gov/file-repository/cjis/nics_firearm_checks_-_day_month_year.pdf/view
- OJJDP — Statistical Briefing Book — https://ojjdp.ojp.gov/statistical-briefing-book
D. Health & Public Health
- CDC — WONDER — https://wonder.cdc.gov/ · Natality — https://wonder.cdc.gov/natality.html
- CMS — Data — https://data.cms.gov/ · Developer — https://developer.cms.gov/data-cms/
- HealthData.gov — https://healthdata.gov/
- MedlinePlus (NLM) — https://medlineplus.gov/
- NCHS / NVSS — Deaths https://www.cdc.gov/nchs/nvss/deaths.htm · Births https://www.cdc.gov/nchs/nvss/births.htm · Downloads https://www.cdc.gov/nchs/data_access/vitalstatsonline.htm
- NIH — https://www.nih.gov/
- SAMHSA — Data — https://www.samhsa.gov/data/
E. Environment & Climate
- EPA — AQS Data Mart — https://aqs.epa.gov/aqsweb/documents/data_mart_welcome.html · Overview — https://www.epa.gov/aqs
- EPA — ECHO Data Downloads — https://echo.epa.gov/tools/data-downloads
- NOAA — NCEI Climate Data Online — https://www.ncei.noaa.gov/cdo-web/
- USGS — EarthExplorer — https://earthexplorer.usgs.gov/
- EPA — EJSCREEN (archived) — https://19january2021snapshot.epa.gov/ejscreen/download-ejscreen-data_.html
F. Mapping & Geospatial
- GeoPlatform.gov — https://www.geoplatform.gov/
- National Address Database — https://www.transportation.gov/gis/national-address-database
- OpenStreetMap Geofabrik Extracts — https://download.geofabrik.de/
- The National Map (USGS) — https://apps.nationalmap.gov/downloader/
- TIGER/Line Shapefiles (Census) — https://www.census.gov/geographies/mapping-files/2024/geo/tiger-line-file.html
G. Transportation
- BTS — TranStats / Data Inventory — https://www.transtats.bts.gov/ · https://data.bts.gov/
- NHTSA — FARS & FIRST — https://www.nhtsa.gov/research-data/fatality-analysis-reporting-system-fars · https://cdan.dot.gov/query
- NHTS — National Household Travel Survey — https://nhts.ornl.gov/ · https://www.fhwa.dot.gov/policyinformation/nhts.cfm
H. Education
- EDFacts — https://www.ed.gov/data/edfacts-initiative
- NCES — CCD — https://nces.ed.gov/ccd/
- NCES — IPEDS — https://nces.ed.gov/ipeds · Use https://nces.ed.gov/ipeds/use-the-data · Complete https://nces.ed.gov/ipeds/help/view/complete-data-files
I. Housing & Consumer
- CFPB — Consumer Complaint Database — https://www.consumerfinance.gov/data-research/consumer-complaints/ · Catalog — https://catalog.data.gov/dataset/consumer-complaint-database
- HUD USER — Datasets — https://www.huduser.gov/portal/pdrdatas_landing.html · Open data — https://hudgis-hud.opendata.arcgis.com/
- USDA FNS — SNAP Retailer Data — https://www.fns.usda.gov/snap/retailer/data · Historic — https://www.fns.usda.gov/snap/retailer-locator/data
J. Agriculture & Food
- USDA — NASS QuickStats — https://quickstats.nass.usda.gov/ · Overview — https://www.nass.usda.gov/Data_and_Statistics/
K. Social, Media, and Google Data & Stats
Google & Alphabet
- BigQuery — Public Datasets — https://cloud.google.com/bigquery/public-data
- Data Commons — https://datacommons.org/
- Dataset Search — https://datasetsearch.research.google.com/
- Google Ads Transparency Center — https://adstransparency.google.com/
- Google Ngram Viewer — https://books.google.com/ngrams
- Google Transparency Report — https://transparencyreport.google.com/
- Google Trends — https://trends.google.com/
- YouTube Transparency Center — https://transparency.youtube.com/
Platforms / Transparency
- Meta Ad Library — https://www.facebook.com/ads/library/ · https://transparency.fb.com/
- Reddit — API & Transparency — https://www.reddit.com/dev/api · https://www.redditinc.com/policies/transparency-report
- TikTok — Commercial Content Library — https://www.tiktok.com/solutions/ads-transparency · API — https://developers.tiktok.com/doc/research-api-overview/
- X (Twitter) — Transparency Center — https://transparency.x.com/
Government web analytics
- analytics.usa.gov — https://analytics.usa.gov/ · About — https://analytics.usa.gov/about
L. New York (State & City) — Law Enforcement and Justice
- NYS DCJS — Criminal Justice Statistics — https://www.criminaljustice.ny.gov/crimnet/ojsa/stats.htm
- NYS DOCCS — Research & Reports — https://doccs.ny.gov/research-and-reports
- Open NY — https://data.ny.gov/
- NYC — CCRB Complaints Dataset — https://data.cityofnewyork.us/Public-Safety/Civilian-Complaint-Review-Board-Complaints-Against/2mby-ccnw
- NYC Open Data — NYPD Complaints — Historic https://data.cityofnewyork.us/Public-Safety/NYPD-Complaint-Data-Historic/qgea-i56i · Current YTD https://data.cityofnewyork.us/Public-Safety/NYPD-Complaint-Data-Current-Year-To-Date-/5uac-w243
L.1 Albany — Law Enforcement and Justice (City of Albany)
- Albany Open Data Portal — https://data.albanyny.gov/
- APD — Arrests Dataset by Neighborhood — https://data.albanyny.gov/Public-Safety/APD-Arrests-Dataset-by-Neighborhood/7y34-47cz
- APD — Arrests by Patrol Zone — https://data.albanyny.gov/Public-Safety/APD-Arrests-by-Patrol-Zone-Visualization/nrz7-caw7
- APD — Reported Crimes by Neighborhood — https://data.albanyny.gov/Public-Safety/APD-Reported-Crimes-by-Neighborhood/qq93-cnn2
- APD — Reported Crimes by Patrol Zone — https://data.albanyny.gov/Public-Safety/APD-Reported-Crimes-by-Patrol-Zone/vfv2-nsbg
- City of Albany — Crime Data Map (2020) — https://data.albanyny.gov/Public-Safety/City-of-Albany-Crime-Data-Map-Feb-Apr-2020-/wf7z-ypba
- Albany CPRB — 2023 Annual Report — https://www.albanycprb.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/02/2023-CPRB-Annual-Report-Approved-by-CPRB-1.pdf
- Albany Part I Crime Data (2015–2020) — https://www.albanyny.gov/DocumentCenter/View/2527
- Albany County — Adult Arrests by Race/Ethnicity (2023) — https://www.criminaljustice.ny.gov/crimnet/ojsa/adult-arrest-demographics/2023/albany.xls
M. Massachusetts — Law Enforcement and Justice
- Analyze Boston — https://data.boston.gov/
- BPD — Crime Incident Reports — https://data.boston.gov/dataset/?organization=boston-police-department-org&q=crime
- BPD — Field Interrogation & Observation — https://data.boston.gov/dataset/boston-police-department-fio
- EOPSS — Hate Crime Reports — https://www.mass.gov/lists/reports-on-hate-crimes-in-massachusetts
- Massachusetts EOPSS — Crime Statistics — https://www.mass.gov/crime-statistics
N. Science, Space & Earth Observation
- NASA — Earthdata — https://earthdata.nasa.gov/
- USGS — EarthExplorer — https://earthexplorer.usgs.gov/
O. Additional U.S. Government APIs / Entrypoints
- Census — APIs Overview — https://www.census.gov/data/developers/data-sets.html
- Census — ACS PUMS — https://www.census.gov/programs-surveys/acs/microdata/access/2023.html
P. Source Code & Web Development
- Can I Use — https://caniuse.com/
- IETF — RFCs — https://www.rfc-editor.org/ · https://datatracker.ietf.org/
- MDN — Web Docs — https://developer.mozilla.org/
- OpenAPI Specification — https://spec.openapis.org/oas/latest.html
- SQLite — Documentation — https://sqlite.org/docs.html
- TC39 — ECMAScript — https://tc39.es/
- W3C — Standards — https://www.w3.org/TR/
- WHATWG — HTML Living Standard — https://html.spec.whatwg.org/
Q. Open Source
- Apache Software Foundation — https://www.apache.org/
- CNCF (Cloud Native Computing Foundation) — https://www.cncf.io/
- Debian Project — https://www.debian.org/
- Eclipse Foundation — https://www.eclipse.org/
- Fedora Project — https://fedoraproject.org/
- Free Software Foundation (FSF) — https://www.fsf.org/
- GNU Project — https://www.gnu.org/
- Homebrew — https://brew.sh/
- Kernel.org (Linux) — https://www.kernel.org/
- Open Source Initiative (OSI) — https://opensource.org/
R. Law
- Albany, NY — City Code (eCode360) — https://ecode360.com/AL2006
- Congress.gov — https://www.congress.gov/
- Cornell LII — https://www.law.cornell.edu/
- eCFR — https://www.ecfr.gov/
- Federal Register — https://www.federalregister.gov/
- govinfo.gov — https://www.govinfo.gov/
- Massachusetts General Laws — https://malegislature.gov/Laws/GeneralLaws
- New York State Laws — https://www.nysenate.gov/legislation/laws
- Supreme Court of the United States — https://www.supremecourt.gov/
S. History
- Chronicling America (LOC) — https://chroniclingamerica.loc.gov/
- Library of Congress — Digital Collections — https://www.loc.gov/collections/
- National Archives Catalog — https://catalog.archives.gov/
- Smithsonian — Open Access — https://www.si.edu/OpenAccess
- World Digital Library — https://www.loc.gov/collections/world-digital-library/
T. Philosophy
- Internet Encyclopedia of Philosophy (IEP) — https://iep.utm.edu/
- PhilArchive — https://philarchive.org/
- PhilPapers — https://philpapers.org/
- Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy (SEP) — https://plato.stanford.edu/
U. Psychology
- APA — Dictionary of Psychology — https://dictionary.apa.org/
- APA — PsycNET — https://psycnet.apa.org/
- ICPSR — https://www.icpsr.umich.edu/
- NIH — PubMed — https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/
- NIMH — Statistics — https://www.nimh.nih.gov/health/statistics
- OSF — Open Science Framework — https://osf.io/
V. News & Journalism
- AP — Newsroom — https://newsroom.ap.org/
- Factiva (subscription) — https://www.dowjones.com/professional/factiva/
- ProQuest — News & Newspapers — https://www.proquest.com/products-services/news-newspapers.html
- Reuters — https://www.reuters.com/
W. Scientific & Academic Research
- Digital Commons Network — https://network.bepress.com/
- Google Scholar — https://scholar.google.com/
- JSTOR — https://www.jstor.org/
- PubMed Central (PMC) — https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/
- Science.gov — https://www.science.gov/
Y. Social & Opinion Research
- Pew Research Center — https://www.pewresearch.org/
AA. Cybersecurity & Vulnerabilities
- CISA — KEV Catalog — https://www.cisa.gov/known-exploited-vulnerabilities-catalog
- MITRE — ATT&CK — https://attack.mitre.org/
- MITRE — CVE Program — https://www.cve.org/
- NIST — NVD Data Feeds — https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/data-feeds
AB. Energy & Utilities Data
- EIA — Open Data — https://www.eia.gov/opendata/
- EPA — eGRID — https://www.epa.gov/egrid
- OpenEI — Datasets — https://openei.org/datasets/
AC. Courts, Dockets & Regulatory Comments
- CourtListener / RECAP (Free Law Project) — https://www.courtlistener.com/recap/
- FOIA.gov — https://www.foia.gov/
- PACER — https://pacer.uscourts.gov/
- Regulations.gov — https://www.regulations.gov/ · API — https://api.regulations.gov/
AD. Elections & Civics
- Census — Voting & Registration (CPS Supplement) — https://www.census.gov/topics/public-sector/voting/data.html
- MIT — Election Data & Science Lab (MEDSL) — https://electionlab.mit.edu/data
- U.S. EAC — EAVS Datasets & Codebooks — https://www.eac.gov/research-and-data/datasets-codebooks
AE. Federal Spending & Procurement
- SAM.gov — Contract Opportunities — https://sam.gov/content/opportunities
- USAspending.gov — https://www.usaspending.gov/
AF. Patents & Intellectual Property
- PatentsView — https://patentsview.org/
- USPTO — Bulk Data — https://bulkdata.uspto.gov/
AG. Transportation (Additional)
- FAA — Aviation Data & Statistics — https://www.faa.gov/data_research/aviation_data_statistics
- FRA — Rail Safety Data — https://railroads.dot.gov/safety-data/accident-and-incident-reporting/overview-accident-and-incident-reporting
- FTA — National Transit Database (NTD) — https://www.transit.dot.gov/ntd/data-product
- NTSB — Aviation Accident Database — https://data.ntsb.gov/carol-main-public/basic-search
AH. Media, News & Web-Scale Datasets
- Common Crawl — https://commoncrawl.org/
- GDELT Project — https://www.gdeltproject.org/
AI. Agriculture, Food & Ecology (Additional)
- USDA — ERS Food Access Research Atlas — https://www.ers.usda.gov/data-products/food-access-research-atlas/
- USDA — FoodData Central — https://fdc.nal.usda.gov/
- USDA — NRCS Web Soil Survey / SSURGO — https://websoilsurvey.sc.egov.usda.gov/
- USFWS — ECOS — https://ecos.fws.gov/ecp/
AJ. Research Metadata & Scholarly IDs
- arXiv — https://arxiv.org/help/bulk_data
- Crossref — APIs — https://api.crossref.org/ · Search — https://search.crossref.org/
- OpenAlex — https://openalex.org/
- ORCID — Public Data — https://info.orcid.org/documentation/features/public-data-file/
AK. Real Estate & Housing (Advanced)
- BLS — Consumer Expenditure Survey (CE) — https://www.bls.gov/cex/
- FFIEC — HMDA Platform — https://ffiec.cfpb.gov/data-publication
- HUD — CHAS — https://www.huduser.gov/portal/datasets/cp.html
- HUD — Fair Market Rents (FMRs) — https://www.huduser.gov/portal/datasets/fmr.html
AL. Meteorology, Disasters & Hazards
- FEMA — OpenFEMA Datasets — https://www.fema.gov/openfema-data-sets
- NOAA — Storm Events Database — https://www.ncdc.noaa.gov/stormevents/
- NOAA — Tides & Currents — https://tidesandcurrents.noaa.gov/
- U.S. Drought Monitor — Data Download — https://droughtmonitor.unl.edu/DmData/DataDownload.aspx
AM. New York & Capital Region — Additional Local Data
- Albany County GIS — Open Data Hub — https://albany-county-ny-open-data-albcountygis.hub.arcgis.com/
- City of Albany — GIS Hub — https://city-albanyny-gis.hub.arcgis.com/
- HRECOS — https://hrecos.org/explore/
- NYS Mesonet — https://nysmesonet.org/
- USGS Water Data — Hudson River at Port of Albany (01359165) — https://waterdata.usgs.gov/monitoring-location/01359165/
AN. University Research & Data Repositories
- Boston University — OpenBU — https://open.bu.edu/
- Cornell — arXiv — https://arxiv.org/
- Cornell — eCommons — https://ecommons.cornell.edu/
- Harvard — DASH — https://dash.harvard.edu/
- Harvard — Dataverse — https://dataverse.harvard.edu/
- MIT — Libraries Data Management — https://libraries.mit.edu/data-management/
- MIT — MEDSL — https://electionlab.mit.edu/data
- Siena College — Digital Commons — https://digitalcommons.siena.edu/
- Stanford — Digital Repository — https://library.stanford.edu/research/stanford-digital-repository
- Stanford — Encyclopedia of Philosophy (SEP) — https://plato.stanford.edu/
AO. Cross-University & Global Academic Repositories
- Directory of Open Access Journals (DOAJ) — https://doaj.org/
- HathiTrust Digital Library — https://www.hathitrust.org/
- Ivy Plus Libraries Confederation — https://ivpluslibraries.org/
- OpenAIRE — https://www.openaire.eu/
- SSRN — Working Papers — https://www.ssrn.com/
- WorldCat (OCLC) — https://www.worldcat.org/
- Zenodo — https://zenodo.org/