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The U.S. Department of Justice's Bureau of Justice Statistics collects, analyzes, publishes, and disseminates information on crime, criminal offenders, victims of crime, and the operation of justice systems at all levels of government.

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  • Publisher: U.S. Department of Justice

The Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS) of the U.S. Department of Labor is the principal federal agency responsible for measuring labor market activity, working conditions, and price changes in the economy. Its mission is to collect, analyze, and disseminate essential economic information to support public and private decision making.

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  • Vendor: U.S. Department of Labor
  • Publisher: U.S. Department of Labor

data.census.gov from the U.S. Census Bureau makes it easy to find and download statistics about population, education, housing, industry, and business. data.census.gov includes data from the American Community Survey and the Decennial Census. See examples of census data for Weatherford and Oklahoma. (data.census.gov has replaced American Fact Finder.)

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  • Vendor: U.S. Census Bureau
  • Publisher: U.S. Census Bureau

Chemical References

Use the resources below for information about chemical names, structures, and properties. These resources can be searched by chemical name, CAS Registry Number, molecular formula or weight, InChIKey, or by structure.

  • ChemSpider
    A chemical structure database providing fast access to over 34 million structures, properties, and associated information. (Also see SyntheticPages for chemical reactions.)
  • PubChem
    PubChem is the National Library of Medicine's database of chemistry information for scientists, students, and the general public.
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FRED Economic Data offers a wealth of economic data and information to promote economic education and enhance economic research. FRED is updated regularly and allows 24/7 access to regional and national financial and economic data. FRED is a service of the U.S. Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis.

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  • Vendor: U.S. Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis
  • Publisher: U.S. Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis

Choose a link below to download an app for Statista.


Glassdoor provides a growing database with millions of company reviews, CEO approval ratings, salary reports, interview reviews and questions, office photos and more. This information is shared by employees of the companies profiled in the Glassdoor database. Users may also browse job listings and use Glassdoor to facilitate connections with employers and employees using Facebook.

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Hoovers provides comprehensive company profiles containing company overviews and histories, including some coverage of private companies. Use Hooversto find product/brand name listings, competitors, officer names and salaries, product segmentation data, subsidiaries, and financial data, including access to annual reports and SEC filings.

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  • Vendor: Mergent
  • Publisher: Mergent

Issues and Controversies provides up-to-date, in-depth and objective information on prominent and hotly debated issues. It combines objective analysis with clear explanations of opposing points of view. Chronologies, illustrations, maps, tables, sidebars, bibliographies and contact information augment the balanced, accurate coverage of current and historical events.

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  • Publisher: Infobase Learning

Mergent Market Atlas offers a wealth of detail on company financials, ratios, business segments, descriptions, sustainability, officers and directors. Use MMA to quickly access a multitude of company, industry, index, ESG and economic data views and reports.

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  • Vendor: Mergent
  • Publisher: Mergent

The National Center for Education Statistics (NCES) is the primary federal entity for collecting and analyzing data related to education in the U.S. and other nations. NCES collects, collates, analyzes, and reports complete statistics on the condition of American education; conducts and publishes reports; and reviews and reports on education activities internationally.

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  • Vendor: U.S. Department of Education
  • Publisher: U.S. Department of Education

The National Center for Health Statistics (NCHS) provides statistical information to guide actions and policies which improve the health of the American people. As the Nation's principal health statistics agency, NCHS provides accurate, relevant, and timely health data. NCHS is part of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, U.S. Department of Health and Human Services.

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  • Vendor: U.S. Department of Health and Human Services
  • Publisher: U.S. Department of Health and Human Services

Nexis Uni (formerly LexisNexis) provides searchable access to a wide spectrum of full-text information from over 5,600 sources, including newspapers, broadcast transcripts, and court proceedings.

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  • Publisher: LexisNexis

As one of the world's largest repositories of U.S. Government-sponsored research results, NTRL offers fast and easy access to more than 2.2 million titles, with links to over 700,000 digitized full-text technical reports.

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  • Vendor: U.S. Dept. of Commerce
  • Publisher: U.S. Dept. of Commerce

One Business from ProQuest offers company, industry, and country reports from providers such as Fitch Solutions and Economist Intelligence Unit; and in-depth analyst reports from J. P. Morgan. One Business includes these resources:

  • Scholarly journal and ebook coverage from hundreds of publishers.
  • Full text of the three major global business news sources: the Wall Street Journal, the Economist, and the Financial Times.
  • A robust collection of videos, including interviews with business leaders, case studies, and training.

Read this brochure to learn more about ProQuest One Business. (PDF)

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  • Vendor: ProQuest
  • Publisher: ProQuest

"The mission of Our World in Data is to make data and research on the world’s largest problems understandable and accessible." Broadly organized around the UN Global Sustainability goals, themes include health, food provision, the growth and distribution of incomes, violence, rights, wars, culture, energy use, education, and environmental changes.

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  • Vendor: Global Change Data Lab
  • Publisher: Global Change Data Lab

PubChem is the National Library of Medicine's database of chemistry information for scientists, students, and the general public. PubChem contains information on chemical structures, identifiers, chemical and physical properties, biological activities, patents, health, safety, toxicity data, and much more. PubChem's data comes from government agencies, chemical vendors, journal publishers, and other sources.

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  • Vendor: U.S. National Library of Medicine
  • Publisher: U.S. National Library of Medicine

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As one of the largest statistics portals worldwide, Statista professionally gathers and compiles data from numerous institutes and sources. Users have access to statistics on more than 80,000 topics from over 18,000 individual sources covering a wide variety of disciplines, including business, education, health, political science, technology, and more. Business statistics are available for over 170 different industry sectors.

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  • Vendor: statista.com
  • Publisher: statista.com