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Subscriptions Explained

How do Dewey subscriptions work?

With one annual payment, Dewey subscribers unlock unlimited access to datasets, including complete historical coverage and ongoing updates/refreshes. Subscribers unlock the flexibility of working across a plethora of data providers and datasets, all under one license.

Types of Subscriptions

Dewey supports individual researchers as well as institutional access for entire departments, schools, and universities.

Researcher

The Researcher subscription is designed for individuals and small teams who need direct access to Dewey's dataset catalog.

Each subscription is administered by one researcher, who can create projects, invite collaborators, and designate a limited number of data Downloaders per project. Admins control which datasets are available on each project, making it easy to work across different teams and co-authors.

Institutional

Institutional licenses are built for departments, business schools, and universities that need to provide data access across a group. All students, research assistants, and faculty within the licensed group are covered under a single agreement.

  • Institutional licenses include everything in the Researcher tier, plus:

  • Additional datasets unlocked beyond the standard catalog

  • Access to negotiate direct licenses with Connect data providers

  • Classroom and teaching use cases

  • The ability to add external co-authors as collaborators (without granting them direct data access)

Tier

Description

Department

A single academic unit focused on one discipline or field — such as a Marketing department within a Business School.

School

A collection of related departments under one faculty or college — such as a Business School or School of Engineering.

University

Covers all schools and departments institution-wide. All faculty and students are included under a single license. Dewey can also configure single sign-on (SSO) for university wide access.

Datasets

A Dewey license unlocks access to almost all of the datasets on the platform. There are three data providers/sets that require an institutional license and are not available to individual researchers.

Data Partner

Datasets

Veraset

Visits, Home Visits, Work Visits, Home, Work

People Data Labs

People and Resume

ATTOM

Tax Assessor, Assessor History, Recorder, Pre-Foreclosure History, Community Information Layout, School Attendance Boundaries, Neighborhood and Subdivision Boundaries, Automated Valuation Model (AVM)

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Am I already covered by an institutional license?

Check the list of Dewey's Subscribed Universities.