Datasets, Statistics, and Financial Information

Many databases can be accessed only by paid subscription. The Harrisburg University Library pays for access to the following on your behalf. To use these resources, you must access them by starting here on the Library's website. If you try to go direct to the database from Google, you will encounter a paywall or other access error. 

The databases in this section do not require a subscription.

Category:

• General Use
• Health
• International
• Science

General Use Datasets

• ArcGIS Hub

  Search or browse for open data related to boundary, demographic, basemap, and thematic geographic layers.

• Data.Gov

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

• data.world

  Explore open data on a variety of topics.

• Deep Blue Data

  A repository offered by the University of Michigan Library of research data developed or used in the support of research activities at U-M.

• GitHub
  Public data sources on a wide variety of topics.
   
• Google Dataset Search
  Use Google's search engine to find datasets.
   
• Harvard Dataverse
  Find data across various research fields.
   
• Open ICPSR
  Behavioral health and social science research data from the Inter-university Consortium for Political and Social Research.
• OSTI.gov

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

• Pew Research Datasets

  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.

• re3data.org

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

• Registry of Open Data on AWS

  Datasets that are available via Amazon Web resources.

• Social Media Data and Tools (GMU)

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

• Wikidata

  Data that provide support for Wikipedia, Wikimedia Commons, the other wikis of the Wikimedia.

Health

• Google Public Data

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

• HealthData.gov

  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.

International

• Eurostat
  High Quality Statistics on Europe.
   
• International Historical Statistics
  National and international socio-economic data from 1750 to 2010 provided by the University of Cambridge. 
   
• Our World in Data

  Research and interactive data visualizations.

• UNData
  International statistical databases compiled by the United Nations (UN) statistical system and other international agencies. 

• World Bank Open Data
  Free and open access to global development data.

Science

• Center for Statistics and Applications in Forensic Evidence (CSAFE)
  Open-source datasets and databases for forensic scientists and forensic researchers to implement in their laboratories.
   
• IEEE DataPort
  Search and browse datasets and data competitions. Open Access datasets can be downloaded after users create a free account.
   
• ​Kaggle Datasets
  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.
   
• NSF Science & Engineering Indicators
  Explore topics, data sources, and downloads from the National Center for Science and Engineering Statistics (NCSES).
   
• Scientific Data
  A peer-reviewed, open-access journal for descriptions of scientifically valuable datasets, and research that advances the sharing and reuse of scientific data.