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Data Repository Directories
How can I find lists of data repositories?
Data repository directories can help you find the right location to deposit your data or to locate research data. These online directories maintain lists of data sources and repositories for a variety of subject disciplines.
- re3data.org, The Registry of Research Data RepositoriesGlobal registry of research data repositories covering research data repositories from different academic disciplines.
- FAIRsharingGlobal registry of data and metadata standards, inter-related to databases and data policies.
- Nature - Recommended Data RepositoriesGuidance from Nature, the international journal of science, for recommended disciplinary and generalist repositories.
- PLOS - Recommended Data RepositoriesGuidance from PLOS for recommended disciplinary and generalist repositories.
Discover Data
- **Coming soon** Canadian Peatland Data PortalA comprehensive data repository for peatland data across Canada, specifically related to carbon and greenhouse gas emissions.
- International Tobacco Control Policy Evaluation (ITC) ProjectThe ITC Project is the first-ever, world’s largest international cohort study of tobacco and nicotine use by UW and over 150 research collaborators around the world.
- Polar Data CatalogueThe Polar Data Catalogue is a repository of metadata and data that describes and provides access to diverse data sets generated by Arctic and Antarctic researchers.
- DryadGeneral-purpose repository for open and curated data. Service has publishing fees.
- FigshareGeneral-purpose repository, often used in partnership with PLOS publications.
- Open Science Framework (OSF)General-purpose repository maintained by the Center for Open Science with free and open-source tools. Service has collaborative features for contributors or coauthors on a project.
- ZenodoGeneral-purpose open repository developed under the European OpenAIRE program and operated by CERN, the European Organization for Nuclear Research.
- PANGAEARepository for Earth and Environmental science, focused on georeferenced observational and experimental data.
- The SAO/NASA Astrophysics Data SystemDigital library portal with astronomical object information, data catalogs and data sets for astronomy, astrophysics, and physics.
- SIMBAD Astronomical DatabaseDatabase of observational data on astronomical objects located beyond the Solar System. Maintained by the Centre de données astronomiques de Strasbourg (CDS), France.
- University of California Irvine Machine Learning RepositoryMachine learning repository which houses a collection of databases, domain theories, and data generators that are used by the machine learning community for the empirical analysis of machine learning algorithms.
- Vivli, Center for Global Clinical Research DataRepository for sharing individual participant-level data from completed clinical trials to serve the international research community. Users can search listed studies, request data sets from data contributors, aggregate data, or deposit data.
- ICPSR, the Inter-university Consortium for Political and Social ResearchRepository for social science data, considered the world's largest archive for these disciplines.
- Qualitative Data Repository (QDR)Repository for storing and sharing digital data (and accompanying documentation) generated or collected through qualitative and multi-method research in the social sciences and related disciplines.
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Do you have a discipline-specific or University of Waterloo resource to recommend for this list? Send it to us through our recommendation form, we would love to hear from you!