Roper Center at Cornell — the world's largest archive of public opinion data with 22,000+ datasets from Gallup, Pew, and other major polling organizations. Search and download polling data from 1935 to present. Free through NYU.
American National Election Studies — the gold standard dataset for US political behavior research since 1948. Covers voting, political attitudes, partisanship, media consumption, and demographics. Free to download for academic use.
Full Ancestry.com access on campus WiFi. Build your family tree, search billions of census records, immigration docs, military records, and DNA matches — all free at NYU.
Primary source database of early anthropological fieldwork, including ethnographies, field notes, and seminal texts that shaped modern anthropological theory and methods.
Massive collection of ethnographic studies, field notes, and anthropological research covering human societies worldwide. Features thousands of pages of previously unpublished archival material from renowned anthropologists.