Find, Create, & Clean Data

Browse Collections of Data, Images, and Corpora

Library Database Finder: Databases licensed for the UChicago Community.

Data and Statistics: International, national, and state data sources.

Spatial Data: Spatial Data from the Library Collection and beyond.

Image Databases: Image databases licensed for the UChicago community.

UChicago's Digital Image Collections: Library-hosted digital image collections.

Corpora Collections: Text collections for text and data mining, including newspapers, books, citations, metadata, primary sources, and government documents.

Ask Us for a Data Reference

Ask a Librarian: Chat, email, or text with librarians who can answer questions about our services and connect you with your subject specialist.

Contact your Subject Specialist: Email your subject specialist to learn about available data, media, and corpora for your research and teaching. When a suitable dataset is not available through our collection or open access source, librarians will consider purchasing data that meet the Data Collection Development Policy criteria.

Librarians are available to consult on creating and cleaning data and media:

• Tabular Data
• Spatial Data
• Digital Media
• Digitizing Library Print Material
• Digitizing Print Material for Research