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CRL gathers and provides information here about commercial and open access digital resources of interest to the CRL community.  This information is intended to inform library decisions on investment in electronic resources and related services.

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CB Insights

CB Insights is a venture capitalist database that provides financial data and profiles on privately and publicly owned companies.

Provider: CB Insights
Updated: Oct 4, 2016 11:38am

CDC WONDER

CDC WONDER, or Wide-ranging OnLine Data for Epidemiologic Research, is an online database that provides free and open access to the information resources of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. WONDER resources include: CDC reports, recommendations and guidelines, articles, statistical research data, and public-use data sets. Data sets cover: deaths, cancer incidence, HIV and AIDS, TB, births, and census data

Provider: Centers for Disease Control and Prevention
Updated: Oct 6, 2016 1:23pm

CEIC Global Database

CEIC Global Database provides access to macro- and microeconomic data from 128 countries, containing reportedly over 2.5 million time series from the United States and countries worldwide. Indicators include government and public finance data (gross domestic product, national government debt), inflation, domestic trade, foreign trade, financial markets, and key industry sectors such energy and tourism. Data is compiled and normalized by CEIC for comparison of various economic factors across countries. CEIC’s platform (CDMNext) allows dowloading of time series data (up to 3,000 series at a time) to Excel for analysis.

https://www.ceicdata.com

 

Provider: Euromoney Institutional Investor PLC
Updated: Nov 20, 2023 9:05am

CISER Data Archive

The CISER Data Archive is a collection of social and economic datasets of numeric data files. The collection includes: federal and state censuses, files based on administrative records, public opinion surveys, economic and social data, and studies complied by individual researchers. 

Provider: Cornell Institute for Social and Economic Research
Updated: Sep 20, 2016 5:37pm

CNKI China Statistical Yearbooks Database

CNKI China Statistical Yearbooks Database (CSYD) is a digital repository of statistical and census data published by the Chinese government provided by East View Information Services. 

Provider: East View Information Services
Updated: Oct 6, 2016 1:43pm

Catalist

Catalist is a database of US voter registration and demographic data. The database also integrates data from the US Census. 

Provider: Catalist
Updated: Jan 10, 2017 4:41pm

Center for Research in Security Prices (CRSP)

The Center for Research in Security Prices (CRSP) is a set of databases of historical stock market data provided by the Booth School of Business at the University of Chicago. CRSP maintains the most comprehensive collection of security price, return, and volume data for the NYSE, AMEX and NASDAQ stock markets. Additional CRSP files provide stock indices, beta- and cap-based portfolios, treasury bond and risk-free rates, mutual funds, and real estate data.

Provider: Booth School of Business
Updated: Dec 20, 2016 11:05am

CoreLogic

CoreLogic is a database of property information, real estate transaction services and analytics. The content provided includes publicly available data and multiple listing service (MLS) data combined with property, mortgage and financial databases to provide information required for mortgage and real estate services.  

Provider: CoreLogic
Updated: Feb 3, 2017 4:28pm

Corporate Affiliations

Corporate Affiliations is an online business database with information on companies from across the globe, it is provided by LexisNexis. The database includes company profiles, financials, parent and subsidiary company information, and access to business news feeds. 

Provider: LexisNexis
Updated: Feb 20, 2017 3:30pm

Crimson Hexagon Data Library

Crimson Hexagon is a social media analytics service, based in Boston, MA, that indexes social media posts from a wide range of global sources,and maintains an online repository of social media data and a platform for social media analytics. The data library provides posts from content providers including: Twitter, Tumblr, Google Plus, Blogs, Forums, Facebook, Instagram Hashtags, Reviews, News, Comments, and YouTube. 

Provider: Crimson Hexagon
Updated: May 22, 2017 10:54am


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