Finding Data Resources at Harvard
HOLLIS catalog
The HOLLIS catalog provides access to over 15 million books, journals and databases in the Harvard collections.
Harvard E-Research portal
The Harvard E-Research portal allows current Harvard affiliates access to all of the university-wide online resources to which Harvard subscribes. Resources accessible through this portal include databases, e-journals, journal indexes, and digitized visual and data collections.
IQSS Dataverse Network
IQSS Dataverse provides access to Harvard's Murray Research Archive, as well as these other large data collections: ICPSR, NARA (U.S. National Archives and Records Administration), Roper Center, and The DataWeb (U.S. Census Bureau). Numeric Data Services and other smaller collections can also be searched. Data can be downloaded if permissions allow and in some cases subset for analysis.
Data Collections in Harvard Libraries
Numeric Data Services
The focus of the collection is on economic and financial data, public opinion and survey polls, health data and more.
Government Documents/Microforms Collections
Harvard College Library's Government Documents unit in Lamont Library is the central reference and referral point for government information from the United States government, 160 foreign governments, and many international organizations. The collection is especially strong in demography and population, history, international relations, international trade, and the social sciences.
Harvard Law School Library
The Harvard Law School Library has published a data research guide that provides information about data resources that will be of interest to legal scholars.
Harvard Business School Baker Library
The Harvard Business School Library has created a comprehensive database of data resources available to Harvard affiliates. Their database is searchable by title, content and subject.
Contact Information
Reference assistance is available online or by appointment. Please contact us at dataquest@help.hmdc.harvard.edu to ask us a question or to schedule a consultation.