Subject Guides: Sustainability: Data

U.S. Government Data

Data.gov
A clearinghouse for open data from the U.S. federal government.
Data USA
A website and visualization engine of public US Government data.

Our World in Data

Our World in Data
"Research and data to make progress against the world’s largest problems." A collaborative effort between researchers at the University of Oxford and the non-profit organization Global Change Data Lab.

Data Sets LibGuide

Data Sets
A LibGuide with links to data sets in the sciences, humanities, and social sciences.

Portals

Academic Torrents
"A community-maintained distributed repository for datasets and scientific knowledge."
Data.gov
A clearinghouse for open data from the U.S. federal government.
Data is Plural
"A weekly newsletter of useful/curious datasets." Includes a spreadsheet of all featured datasets.
Data USA
A website and visualization engine of public US Government data.
Google Dataset Search
"Enables users to find datasets stored across thousands of repositories on the Web."
Inter-University Consortium for Political and Social Research (ICPSR)
The Inter-university Consortium for Political and Social Research (ICPSR) provides access to an extensive collection of downloadable data sets.
Kaggle
A collection of public data sets.
Microsoft Research Open Data
"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."
Open Data Inception
A geotagged, curated list of 2600+ open data portals from around the world.
re3data.org
"Registry of Research Data Repositories"
ResearchDataGov
"A web portal for discovering and requesting access to restricted microdata from federal statistical agencies."
SHARE
An index to research repositories, including data sets.

Inter-university Consortium for Political and Social Research (ICPSR)

ICPSR is an international consortium of more than 750 academic institutions and research organizations which provides leadership and training in data access, curation, and methods of analysis for the social science research community.

ICPSR maintains a data archive of more than 250,000 files of research in the social and behavioral sciences. It hosts 21 specialized collections of data in education, aging, criminal justice, substance abuse, terrorism, and other fields.

Inter-University Consortium for Political and Social Research (ICPSR) This link opens in a new window This web page provides search and browsing access to abstracts and data sets in the world's largest archive of computerized social science data. Search or browse title of study, principal investigator, words in abstract, or study number. Browse major research categories.