The Princeton University Library and Princeton University’s Centre for Arts and Cultural Policy Studies have announced the launch of the Cultural Policy and the Arts National Data Archive (CPANDA). Believed to be the world’s first fully interactive, web-accessible digital archive of policy-relevant data on culture and the arts, CPANDA is designed to assist policy makers, journalists and scholars gain access to current research findings and previously hard-to-find data on the arts. CPANDA is comprised of a searchable data archive, a statistics component, research guides and web links to other resources. Centre for Arts and Cultural Policy Studies Director, Stanley N Katz said that CPANDA was an example of the arts community ‘doing for itself what the government has been unable to do.’ ‘CPANDA fills a major gap in arts and cultural policy decision making in the United States,’ he said. CPANDA is accessible HERE.