Explore UW-Madison’s Libraries Data Sets

Welcome the UW-Madison Libraries’ data sets site.

This website provides access to data sets that have been purchased and licensed by the Libraries. These data sets are generally available for use by UW-Madison faculty, staff and students to support teaching and research projects taking place across campus.

For more information about purchasing data sets, see our Dataset Acquisition Policy.

Available Data Resources

Al-Ahram

This is a full extract of data from the Al-Ahram Digital Archive—one of the Middle East’s most circulated Arabic newspapers founded in Egypt in 1875—with coverage from 1876 to 2020.

The Lens

A full extract from The Lens platform that combines research articles from PubMed and CrossRef with patent information. It includes data from the U.S. Patent Office, World Intellectual Property Organization, and other patent offices.

Web of Science

A full extract of the UW-Madison subscription to the Web of Science citation database. It is available for academic research and data science projects.