Penn Library-Social Science Data and GIS Services

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Quantitative and Geospatial Data Holdings

To support the research needs of Penn faculty, students and staff, the University of Pennsylvania Libraries acquire and subscribe to numerical and geospatial data resources in print and electronic formats. The library is a federal depository library, and receives large amounts of numerical data from agencies. Many of these resources are available on CD-ROM as well as on the web. Some of the agencies are:

The library is also a repository of United States Geographic Survey maps that are housed at the High Density Storage Facility, Suite #10, 3001 Market Street. This collection is not cataloged in Franklin. Please consult Collection Development Policy: Maps regarding this collection.

The library's numerical and geospatial collections have a special emphasis on Philadelphia data and maps. Recently, the Penn Library has digitized historical Philadelphia census tract maps using ArcView. These maps and the electronic census data build a foundation for researchers to study demographic changes that have occurred in smaller areas of Philadelphia over the past sixty years.

The library is a subscriber to some major numeric data archives, such as ICPSR, Roper Center for Public Opinion Research and Sociometric Social Science Electronic Data Library. The Numeric Data Archives web page provides information on obtaining datasets from these archives.

The Library also holds uncataloged or incompletely cataloged U.S. census resources in print, microform, and CD-ROM. Much 1990 Census data is available online. Access to these materials will be discussed in this U.S. Census guide.

The Library provides access to several major statistical databases through the Library web site including

BankScope
Country Finance
EdgarScan
EuroMonitor
ISI Emerging Markets
Multexnet Un Statistics Division Common Database
Polls & Surveys vie LEXIS-NEXIS Academic Universe. Clinck on Reference.
Polling the Nations
Social Science Electronic Data Library (SSEDL)
Statistical Universe
SourceOECD
Standard & Poor's Industry Surveys
STAT-USA
TableBase
UnStats Common Database

The Lippincott Library houses a collection of demographic and marketing statistics on CD-ROMs. In addition, Lippincott library also subscribes to international financial resources, such as DataStream.

Franklin, the online catalog, is used to locate the library's holdings of print and CD-ROM publications. These resources are housed in:

To find these resources and their locations, please use the Franklin keyword search for terms such as:

statistics AND philadelphia
census AND 1970
estimates AND building

health AND statistics AND CD

DOQ OR (digital orthophoto quadrangles)
DOL OR (digital line graphics)
DRG OR (digital aster graphics)

USGS AND CD

Or search by author for terms such as:

Geological Survey (U.S.)
United States. Census
GeoLytics, Inc.

CACI, Inc.

National Center for Health Statistics
World Bank
Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development

United Nations. Dept. of Economic and Social Affairs

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