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  "id": "1995-april-from-the-nicar-library",
  "slug": "1995-april-from-the-nicar-library",
  "url": "https://dwillis.github.io/uplink/article/1995-april-from-the-nicar-library.html",
  "year": 1995,
  "month": "April",
  "monthNum": 4,
  "headline": "From the NICAR library",
  "kicker": "",
  "author_name": "",
  "author_title": "",
  "affiliation": "NICAR",
  "summary": "NICAR provides journalists access to a comprehensive collection of federal government databases including election contributions, aviation records, mortgage disclosure data, and crime statistics, along with affordable data transfer services and an expanding library of state databases.",
  "keywords": [
    "databases",
    "government",
    "journalists"
  ],
  "topics": [
    "Data & Databases",
    "Investigative Methods",
    "Journalism & Newsroom"
  ],
  "technologies": [],
  "full_text": "From the NICAR library\n\nNICAR offers a number of federal government databases. Here is a list of our growing collection:\n- Federal Elections Commission contributions data, including donations by individuals and political action committees.\n- Federal Aviation Administration data, including airplane maintenance work documented in the service difficulty report, pilot licenses and grades, and aircraft registration.\n- Home Mortgage Disclosure Act records, for tracking who gets loans and who gets turned down, and finding redlining patterns.\n- Federal procurement data, 1992-1994, includes breakdowns by agency.\n- Alcohol, Tobacco and Firearms gun dealer records.\n- National Bridge Inventory System data, includes inspection grades.\n- FBI Uniform Crime Reports, a detailed compilation of crime data that includes statistical breakdowns of individual murders.\n- Social Security death records, by name and social security number, going back to 1937.\n- Occupational Safety and Health Administration violation data includes worker accidents and exposures to hazardous chemicals by companies.\n- Truck Accidents and census data, includes breakdowns by company and road.\nNICAR also offers inexpensive data transfer for journalists, and houses an expanding library of state databases. NICAR is also constantly adding up-to-date data. Call NICAR for up-to-date prices and more information at (314) 882-0684, or send email to nicar@muccmail.missouri.edu.",
  "provenance": {
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    "extracted_at": "2026-07-05",
    "verified": true
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