Searching quantitative data for historians: Introduction

At the start of the year, you have been offered the basics to learn how to collect scholarly literature:

• scavenger hunt through the library
• digital scavenger hunt
• Compass:1. Finding and accessing information
• Compass:2. Setting up your search
• Research guide for History 

Learning to search datasets will build upon that knowledge. To find data, you also need to learn new concepts and methods.

Keep in mind that searching data is quite a new development. It will cost more time to find relevant datasets than to find relevant sources.

This LibGuide is developed for first-year students History in the course about quantitative data: Big Questions, Big Data (update: 22 April 2022). Only students of this course have access to all course materials through BlackBoard. 

Here you are going to learn:

• different methods to collect datasets
• how to evaluate, cite and reuse datasets

Support

The LibGuide will be available for as long as the course lasts. If you have any questions, you can ask them to a librarian by email at library@uu.nl.