Guides: Finding Data: Data Directories & General Repositories

Data Directories

These online directories maintain lists of data sources and repositories across a wide range of disciplines. For lists of repositories approved by journals or scholarly societies for publishing associated disciplinary data, check the sections for those disciplines to the left.

Registry of Research Data Repositories (re3data)
A global registry of research data repositories covering a wide variety of academic subjects in the sciences, social sciences, and humanities.
Open Access Directory of Data Repositories
Maintains lists of open access data repositories for a wide range of subject areas.

General Repositories

These repositories maintain data from a wide range of subject areas and are not limited to a particular discipline.

Amazon Web Services Public Data Sets *
Hosts a variety of large public data sets, such as Landsat, census, and genomic data. Creating an account may be required, and charges may apply for computing time and data transfer.
D-Scholarship@Pitt
The institutional repository for the research output of the University of Pittsburgh. It is just beginning to build its data collection.
figshare
A repository for sharing all types of research output in any subject - includes papers, figures, posters, slides.
Zenodo
Accepts all types of research output from all areas of science, including data sets, images, video/audio, software, presentations, posters, articles, theses, etc. Allows flexibility in licensing, so not all deposits are strictly open access. Funded by the European Community and CERN,

* This resource is known to require registration, fees, or licensing for some of its features or options.

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