The Open data movement calls for data that can be freely shared and used, and promotes greater accountability and transparency in research practice and communication.
Using datasets
Dataset repositories
Figshare allows researchers to share datasets and other research outputs. It also assigns DOI.
Developed at Harvard University as an open source web repository application for archiving datasets.
The home of the U.S. Government’s open data Here you will find data, tools, and resources to conduct research, develop web and mobile applications, design data visualizations,
A repository hosted by CERN that allows researchers from all fields to upload data in all formats for private use or public sharing.
URL
G.R. Brakenridge, Global Active Archive of Large Flood Events. (September 2, 2019). Distributed by Dartmouth Flood Observatory, University of Colorado. Accessed: November 21, 2020. [Online]. Available: http://floodobservatory.colorado.edu/Archives/index.html
DOI
R. Knutti, IPC Working Group I AR5 Snapshot: The RCP85 Experiment. (September 20, 2014). Distributed by World Data Center for Climate (WDCC) at KDRZ. doi: 10.1594/WDCC/ETHr8.
Google Dataset Search is a search engine for datasets. It searches data repositories across the Web, finding datasets with a simple keyword search.
A collection of free datasets from Microsoft Research to advance state-of-the-art research in areas such as natural language processing, computer vision, and domain specific sciences. Download or copy directly to a cloud-based Data Science Virtual Machine for a seamless development experience.
The Registry of Research Data Repositories includes information on more than 2000 research data repositories worldwide.
OAD is a list of discipline-specific data repositories.