Open Educational Resources (OER)

Search tool from Google which provides access to datasets in a variety of formats. Includes the ability to filter search results by date updated, format, rights, and whether usage is free.

BMC Research Notes publishes scientifically valid research outputs that cannot be considered as full research or methodology articles. We support the research community across all scientific and clinical disciplines by providing an open access forum for sharing data and useful information.

A topic-centric list of high-quality open datasets in public domains.

Search tool from Google which provides access to datasets in a variety of formats. Includes the ability to filter search results by date updated, format, rights, and whether usage is free.

Google Public Data Explorer provides public data and forecasts from a range of international organizations and academic institutions including the World Bank, OECD, Eurostat and the University of Denver. These can be displayed as line graphs, bar graphs, cross sectional plots or on maps.

The Harvard Dataverse Repository is a free data repository open to all researchers from any discipline, both inside and outside of the Harvard community, where you can share, archive, cite, access, and explore research data. Each individual Dataverse collection is a customizable collection of datasets (or a virtual repository) for organizing, managing, and showcasing datasets.

Research datasets from Smithsonian researchers in a variety of disciplines.

Public use data files and documentation.

GigaScience is an open access, open data, open peer-review journal focusing on ‘big data’ research from the life and biomedical sciences.

Open Health Data features peer-reviewed data papers describing health datasets with high reuse potential. We are working with a number of specialist and institutional data repositories to ensure that the associated data are professionally archived, preserved, and openly available. Equally importantly, the data and the papers are citable, and reuse will be tracked.

The Journal of Open Psychology Data (JOPD) features peer reviewed data papers describing psychology datasets with high reuse potential. Data papers may describe data from unpublished work, including replication research, or from papers published previously in a traditional journal. We are working with a number of specialist and institutional data repositories to ensure that the associated data are professionally archived, preserved, and openly available. Equally importantly, the data and the papers are citable, and reuse is tracked.

Scroll down to statistics, trends & reports. May need to click through several screens to access data.

The National Center for Health Statistics (NCHS) is a rich source of data for researchers, teachers, and students who want to perform data analysis. This page compiles key sources of information found on the NCHS website for those who are interested in analysis of NCHS data as well as documentation and methodology of NCHS data systems.

Economic data by topic, place or economic account.

U.S. budget and economic data.

The e-journal Economics has a devoted space in the Dataverse Network for replication data sets. The Dataverse Network is an application to publish, share, reference, extract and analyze research data. It facilitates making data available to others, and allows to replicate others work. Researchers and data authors get credit, publishers and distributors get credit, affiliated institutions get credit.

Download, graph, and track 763,000 US and international time series from 94 sources.

Information related to employment / unemployment, pricing and inflation, and other information related to the labor market and the U.S. economy.

Free and open access to global development data

A central and user-friendly data portal to access a wide range of WTO statistical indicators on international trade, tariffs, non-tariff measures and other indicators.

The home of the U.S. Government’s open data. Here you will find data, tools, and resources to conduct research, develop web and mobile applications, design data visualizations, and more.

Explore, map, compare, and download U.S. data

Our Government Statistics research guide provides links to government data sources previously used by the Department of Commerce on the (now defunct) STAT-USA website.

Filter and download data from the U.S. Census

Find data about the U.S., such as maps and population, demographic, and economic data.