Introduction to Research

A concise page with helpful tips on citing your data and examples from three official style guides (APA, MLA, and Chicago). Includes information about how to cite tables, datasets, and citing within text. From Michigan State University Libraries.

Working paper about the importance of Citing Social Science Data.

A data mining and extraction tool that allows you to extract data into multiple formats and create tables, charts and graphs for presentations. The DataFerrett application must first be downloaded.

Microsoft Excel is a software program that you can use to create and format spreadsheets and analyze and share data. Excel can be found in most computer labs on campus. This link is to Lynda.com, an online training resource for many software programs, including Excel.

The ArcView Geographic Information System (GIS) is a powerful desktop mapping software program for managing information and data of any kind based on location. This decision-making tool allows users to visualize information and data in new ways to reveal relationships, patterns and trends, and to create customized maps based on that analysis.

Created by the Georgetown Public Policy Institute, this resource helps Social Scientist with using SAS and STATA statistical software. Use must purchase the software for themselves.

Once you sign in you can purchase or download software covered by licenses for Mathematica, Minitab, SAS, SPSS, and STATA.

Reports detailed balance of payments data for current account (goods and services), capital account, financial account (portfolio or direct investment), and reserves. This statistical database includes historical data from all series appearing in the Balance of Payments Statistics Yearbook (BOPSY) Country Tables (Part 1) and the World and Regional Tables (Part 2). The Methodologies, Compilation Practices, and Data Sources (Part 3) notes are available when selecting most country tables. The Co

UN's World Investment Directory provides detailed information about foreign direct investment in a country, with statistics on flows, stocks and transnational corporation operations, by components, industry and investor/recipient country. Older editions available in print.