Assists private, corporate, and nonprofit citizens of Kentucky with locating data they need for analysis and decision making. Contains demographic data, census surveys, economic data, and maps.
Home of the U.S. Government's open data. It contains federal, state and local data, tools, and resources to conduct research.
Comprehensive website and visualization engine of public US Government data. Includes data analytics in an easy-to-use platform.
Home of the U.S. Government's open data. It contains federal, state and local data, tools, and resources to conduct research.
US government profiles of countries and territories around the world. Information on geography, people, government, transportation, economy, communications, and so on.
A collection of text, audio, moving images, and software from libraries and museums archived in order to prevent digital artifacts from "disappearing." Provides free access to researchers, historians, scholars, the print disabled, and the general public.
Analyze and organize a variety of data for conducting research, completing writing assignments, preparing for debates, creating presentations and more. Includes multiple formats, including statistics, opinion, news, and peer-reviewed articles.
A nonpartisan fact tank that provides information on issues, attitudes, and trends shaping America and the world.
A digital archive of global, non-partisan public policy research. Uses modern Internet technology to collect and disseminate summaries and full texts, videos, reports, briefs, and multimedia material of think tank, university, government, and foundation-funded policy research.
Presents a description and analysis of the historical setting and the social, economic, political, and national security systems and institutions of countries throughout the world. Most studies were completed between 1988-98 and have not been updated.
Before you use a website for an assignment, ask yourself if the site is suitable as a research source. There are different ways to evaluate a website, but they all center around asking yourself questions about the site, who created it, when and why. Answering these questions will help you understand the websites:
