HIST 6306: Disease and Epidemics in World History: Data Resources

Searching

We will discuss how your search staregies apply to searching for specific types of data sets. 

• How should you search?
  • Where (what databases) should you search?
  • What search terms should you use?
    • data, data sets
      • What type of data are you looking for ? (numeric,spatial, text, audio, visual, relational/network etc.)
    • look for APIs
  • Does your topic give you any search terms?

• Citation mining:
  • Like any other primary resources, datasets require acknowledgement. Datasets should be cited. They may also be addressed in the methodology section.

Searching online/open web

Many datasets around contemporary epidemics are aimed at Health Professionals

Many Government organziations (GOs) and Non-Government Organizations (NGOs) collect health data 

Epidemiological resources

Related specializations:

• Historical epidemiology
• History of Medicine
• Bioinformatics & Biostatistics