This directory is the initial result of a Congressional mandate to the National Center for Education Statistics (NCES) to improve coordination among Federal agencies concerned with the collection and use of education data. It identifies and describes education data bases, predominantly quantitiative, available on computer tape from Federal…

Large-scale databases are an underutilized source of data for secondary analysis by researchers. Major government and private databases available to the public, the types of agencies developing them, and how to obtain and utilize them are described. A catalogue of 20 databases, their characteristics and sources is included. (BS)

Includes articles on the use of online databases for historical research, machine readable data sources for historical research, the librarian-historian interface in reference service, and a sampler of databases for searches in history as well as a selected list of guides to history databases and data archives. (JL)