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MPA Remote Research Support
This guide will assist online MPA students learn how to access academic journal articles, databases, Interlibrary Loan, and use citation management tools (Zotero).
Need help finding data?
Please contact Data Services if you need assistance finding data.
New Jersey Data Sources
- New Jersey State Data Center - Dept. of Labor and Workforce InformationSelect Data Tools to view employment statistics, Consumer Price Index, census and demographic data
- NJ Data Book (Rutgers University Center for Government Studies))Includes statistics on New Jersey’s 565 municipalities, its legislative districts, counties, schools, elections, and people.
SHU Subscriptions
- ICPSR (Inter-university Consortium for Political and Social Research) This link opens in a new windowICPSR maintains a data archive of 250,000 files of research in the social and behavioral sciences. It hosts 21 specialized collections of data in education, aging, criminal justice, substance abuse, terrorism, and other fields. To access subscription content on this site, you must create an account using your SHU email address.
- PolicyMap This link opens in a new windowPolicyMap is a web-based, GIS-lite mapping tool. It allows you to create shaded maps with data points as well as tables with U.S. data. Community and Community Health profiles are also available for states, counties and towns.
- Statista: Insights and facts across 170 industries and 150+ countries This link opens in a new windowQuickly find data for popular topics in the news and across disciplines. Insights and facts across 170 industries and 150+ countries. Curated data is ready in multiple formats for Excel analysis or curated graphics can easily be pasted into presentations, research papers and Adobe Creative Cloud.
Teaching with Data
- University Libraries ICPSR GuideLearn more about how to use ICPSR @ SHU. Thousands of datasets are waiting for you.
- University Libraries Data Management GuideLearn about data management services available for students and faculty including writing data management plans.
- Data Services Research GuideWhat else can we do for you? Learn about Excel cleaning, data visualization and other tools we can use to help enhance your scholarship.
- PolicyMap YouTube ChannelBecome an expert creating layered maps with US data. Create tables, import or export data into or out of PolicyMap. Community and Community Health Profiles also available.
- PolicyMap Curriculum ResourcesContains four helpful components including (1) Assignments and papers from faculty across the country, (2) Sample exercises professors can give to students, (3) short videos with key teaching concepts and (4) webinars led by professors discussing how they teach data and spatial analysis concepts
- Teaching & Learning with ICPSRGREAT exercises that you are ready to go for use in your classroom. You can search by Analysis Method.
- Presentation: Moving beyond the title: Evaluating the data you findICPSR program about evaluating data sources
Data Repositories
- DataONECommunity driven project providing access to data across multiple member repositories, supporting Earth and environmental data
- figshareOnline digital repository where researchers can preserve and share their research outputs, including figures, datasets, images, and videos.
- Harvard DataverseOpen source software application to share, cite and archive data.
- CESSDA ERICConsortium of European Social Science Data Archives and ERIC: European Research Infrastructure Consortium
- DatabraryAn Open Video-Based data repository for sharing, storing and streaming data that supports Developmental Science research