Resources & Guides
Clark Library Resources and Guides
To help with your research, below are links to resources created by Clark Library librarians and staff that are hosted in LibGuides.
Cartography & Geography
Information on maps and mapping agencies.
Resources at the University of Michigan for research in geography.
Subject guide to finding and using geospatial data. Includes tutorials for using elevation data to make contours, and using aerial imagery layers to output imagery even more efficiently than Google Earth Pro can
An overview of tools to help create maps of kinds.
Data & Geographic Information Systems (GIS)
The ClarkData Geospatial Data Server (ClarkData) provides geospatial data to the University of Michigan campus. Most publicly available data is not replicated on this server.
Strategies and resources for finding data across the social sciences, including opinion surveys.
Resources for learning GIS concepts and tools, including ESRI's ArcGIS products, and QGIS.
This research guide provides geospatial data, maps, and statistics resources regarding China.
This research guide provides geospatial data, maps, and statistics resources related to Japan
The research guide provides map, statistics, and GIS data resources with regard to Korea.
Guide to sources of social media data including Twitter, Facebook and others as well as resources on research methods and using social media data ethically in scholarship
Government Information
This library guide provides information related to Canadian executive, legislative, and judicial branches as well as statistics, census, and geospatial data of Canada.
Use for researching Congress or finding Congressional documents like bills. laws, legislation, serial set, debate, Congressional Record, CRS reports, primary source documents, hearings, prints, reports and policy.
This guide will help with finding constitutions and information on the structure of government for the United States and foreign countries to help support comparative political science research.
Research procedure for identifying books, journal and newspaper articles, campaign finances, campaign ads, political advertising, public opinion polls, and election data.
Collection of resources and information regarding the European Union and the countries within and affected by it.
Find data produced by governments on a wide variety of topics including data on local communities, other countries, criminal justice, incarceration and jails
The Graduate Library law collection is primarily a collection about law and how it relates to society. The Law Library has a more comprehensive collection.
A guide to resources covering NGO-generated information, including websites, publications, and other resources.
Sources for researching a policy or policies, bills, laws or court cases for the U.S. and states.
Resources for researching poverty solutions and policies
This subject guide provides a starting point for research in public policy.
Help on seeking government information at the state, county and city level.
A general guide to understanding and finding demographic data produced by the U.S. Census Bureau
Resources for locating information pertaining to the UK Parliament, its devolved governments, and other applicable resources including parliamentary papers and command papers
Guide to finding United Nations information online and in the Government Documents Center
Sources for researching relations between United States of America and other countries
Provides primary source information, documents, reports or publications produced by the legislative, executive and judicial branches of US federal government.
Maps & Aerial Photos
A research guide to assist patrons in finding aerial photograph and aerial imagery resources.
Guide to finding map resources of Detroit and southeastern Michigan.
How to find maps, atlases, CD-ROMs, and other spatial resources in Mirlyn.
An introduction and guide to finding and using Sanborn fire insurance maps at UM and elsewhere.
This guide provides online resources for topographic maps and bathymetric charts that can be accessed digitally.
Includes links to historical and current maps of Washtenaw County, MI, Ann Arbor, MI, and the University of Michigan.