Guides: Data Sets for Research: Quick Facts and General Data Sets

General and Aggregate Sources

Data.gov This link opens in a new window
Provides access to publicly available and downloadable datasets, citizen-developed apps, mobile apps, and U.S. government apps.
Note: by accessing available datasets or tools, you are agreeing to the data policy set by the contributing entity.

StatLib---Datasets Archive
A wide variety of data (from tree growth rate in Canada to arsenic levels in private wells) as compiled in individual research (including textbooks, journal articles and personal research files).
DataCite Metadata Search
Search engine for identifying and locating data sets from international sources on all subjects.

Re3data: Registry of Research Data Repositories This link opens in a new window
Provides a registry of research data repositories across different academic disciplines.

UNdata : a world of information This link opens in a new window
Life, death, education, freedom, refugees, tourism, environment and other data collected by the UN.
An easy to use data access system was developed that meets UNSD’s vision of providing an integrated information resource with current, relevant and reliable statistics free of charge to the global community.

Welcome - the Datahub
Searchable listing of various data sets available on the web. Provides description of data set and may provide reviews of the quality, availability, and ease of use of data.
If data is available, the formats will be listed.
Public Data Sets on Amazon Web Services (AWS)
Includes NASA NEX (earth science data), U.S. Census data, web crawl data among others.

Requires:

registration (may use an existing Amazon account)

fee-based Amazon proprietary software to analyze data (Amazon EC2 or Amazon EMR)
more...less...
Be sure to read the user agreement.
Resource Center for Minority Data
Provides data and tools for manipulating data sets on African American, Asian, Latino, and Native American minority groups across a wide range of topics.
Registry of Research Data Repositories (re3data)
a joint project of the Berlin School of Library and Information Science at the Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin, the German Research Centre for Geosciences (GFZ) and the Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT)
Open Access Directory: Repositories
For a listing of repositories and databases for open data
part of the Open Access Directory hosted and maintained by The Graduate School of Library and Information Science (GSLIS) at Simmons College.
Figshare
Scientific Data
publishes/peer reviews datasets but does not store them
Dryad
"public" data repository for data associated with journal articles
NIH Data Sharing Repositories
approved repositories by NIH

United Nations Statistics Division- International Agencies Data Sources
Organized by Agency; provides links to UN compiled data sets (and some data).
Health Status
From the UN's Organization for Economic Co-operation and Development, the information in these tables may be exported to Excel. Data may be manipulated prior to exporting.
World Bank Open Data