Finding Information: Datasets

Search or browse for open data.

CSAFE offers access to open-source datasets and databases for forensic scientists and forensic researchers to implement in their laboratories.

Data, tools, and resources from the U.S. government.

Explore open data on a variety of topics.

"Deep Blue Data is a repository offered by the University of Michigan Library that provides access and preservation services for digital research data that were developed or used in the support of research activities at U-M."

Use Google's search engine to find datasets.

Use Google's search engine to find public data provided by world governments.

"Find data across research fields, preview metadata, and download files."

Find data on a wide range of topics, including environmental health, medical devices, Medicare & Medicaid, social services, community health, mental health, and substance abuse. The data is collected and supplied from agencies from the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services as well as state partners. This includes the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Food and Drug Administration, and the Agency for Health Care Research and Quality, among others.

Search and browse datasets and data competitions. Open Access datasets can be downloaded after users create a free account.

Explore data from data science projects. Datasets come from a variety of individual researchers, and may not be appropriate for upper level research. Evaluate sources carefully.

Explore topics, data sources, and downloads from the National Center for Science and Engineering Statistics (NCSES).

Behavioral health and social science research data

Find data from the U.S. Department of Energy, Office of Scientific and Technical Information.

"Research and interactive data visualizations to understand the world’s largest problems."

Pew Research Center makes its data available to the public for secondary analysis after a period of time. You may need to create a free, personal account to download the datasets.

Registry of Research Data Repositories provides detailed information on more than 2,000 research data repositories.

"This registry exists to help people discover and share datasets that are available via AWS resources."

Scientific Data is a peer-reviewed, open-access journal for descriptions of scientifically valuable datasets, and research that advances the sharing and reuse of scientific data.

Comprehensive guide from George Mason University with resources and tools for finding and analyzing social media datasets.

"Wikidata is a free, collaborative, multilingual, secondary database, collecting structured data to provide support for Wikipedia, Wikimedia Commons, the other wikis of the Wikimedia movement, and to anyone in the world."

Free and open access to global development data.