ENVS 220: Navigating Resources: Statistics & Datasets

This section of the research guide can help you locate statistical information and datasets that are freely accessible online. It also includes information about citing datasets and statistics.

• U.S. Environmental Protection Agency Data
• Our World in Data
• Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development
• University of Wisconsin-Madison Center for Sustainability and the Global Environment Datasets
• University of Michigan Institute for Social Research
• World Resources Institute Open Data
• U.S. Census Related International Statistics Archive
• Dryad
• Yale guide to Public Environmental Datasets

The MLA Handbook 9th edition does not specifically reference citing datasets, but you can follow the general MLA citation format:

General Template:
Author. Title of dataset. Publisher, Publication Date, Location. Publisher name, Date of publication (format DD Month YYYY), location. doi/url of data

Example:
Bureau of Transportation Statistics. 2020 National Census of Ferry Operators. United States Department of Transportation, 01 March, 2022, Washington DC. https://www.bts.gov/NCFO