Looking for subject-specific resources?
Check out research guides in your specific discipline. Many guides have a "Data & Statistics" page that lists databases with subject-specific information (search "data statistics" on the main guides page to find these). If you don't find a relevant research guide, contact your subject librarian.
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Data Sources
This page offers a few data sources to get started. If you don't find what you need here, check out research guides in your specific discipline or contact your subject librarian.
Open Data Sources
The sources listed below contain some openly available data.
Data collected by governmental organizations is often openly available -- check out the official website for the state or country of interest to find those sources.
- arXiv.orgarXiv is a free distribution service and an open-access archive for scholarly articles in the fields of physics, mathematics, computer science, quantitative biology, quantitative finance, statistics, electrical engineering and systems science, and economics. Owned and operated by Cornell University.
- awesome-public-datasets on GitHubAn automatically generated list of open datasets for analysis. Focuses on raw data (not statistical summary data).
- Data.govUS government data.
- figsharefigshare helps academic institutions store, share and manage all of their research outputs. Upload files up to 5GB. We accept any file format and aim to preview all of them in the browser.
- Journal of Open Humanities DataThe journal features peer reviewed publications describing humanities research objects or techniques with high potential for reuse.
- re3data.orgre3data.org is a global registry of research data repositories that covers research data repositories from different academic disciplines. It presents repositories for the permanent storage and access of data sets to researchers, funding bodies, publishers and scholarly institutions.
- World BankDatasets available - international coverage.
UDel Resources
These data sources are licensed by the University of Delaware and may not be fully accessible to those who are not current students, faculty, or staff.
- ICPSR Data PortalICPSR 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.
- Roper iPOLL This link opens in a new windowProvides access to public opinion data, national and international, 1935-present.
- PolicyMap This link opens in a new windowProvides data related to demographics, income/spending, housing, lending, quality of life, economy, education, health, jobs, crime, and education. Data visualized through a mapping tool.
- ProQuest Statistical Insight This link opens in a new windowContains statistical reports from the US government, state governments, and international organizations.
- Statista This link opens in a new windowProvides access to relevant and quantitative data on media, business, finance, politics, and more.
