Databases

McMaster University is a member of this international consortium of more than 800+ academic and research bodies. ICPSR provides leadership and training in data access, curation, and analytical methods for social science.

ICPSR maintains a data archive of more than 400,000 files of research in the social and behavioural sciences. It hosts more than 25 specialized collections of data in education, aging, criminal justice, substance abuse, terrorism, and other fields.

A full-text research database containing articles, books and other sources on the fifty largest Indigenous groups across North America, Asia, South America, Africa, Europe, and Oceania. Developed in collaboration with Indigenous experts, topics covered include ethnohistory, health, cultural preservation, education, Indigenous knowledge systems, reconciliation, and more. A key resource for understanding Indigenous heritage, experiences, and sociopolitical contexts.

Covers social science and interdisciplinary research; includes nearly two million bibliographic references to journal articles, books, reviews and selected chapters dating back to 1951. It is unique in its broad coverage of international material and incorporates over 100 languages and countries. Over 2,700 journals are regularly indexed and some 7,000 books included each year. Abstracts are provided for half of all current journal articles and full text availability is continually increasing.