Research Guides: BIOL Biological Sciences Subject Guide: Find Data

Find Data

Here are just a few resources you can use to locate research data.

bioRxiv
bioRxiv (pronounced "bio-archive") is a free online archive and distribution service for unpublished preprints in the life sciences.
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It is operated by Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory, a not-for-profit research and educational institution. By posting preprints on bioRxiv, authors are able to make their findings immediately available to the scientific community and receive feedback on draft manuscripts before they are submitted to journals.
Data.Gov
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.
DRYAD Digital Repository
The Dryad Digital Repository is a curated resource that makes research data discoverable, freely reusable, and citable. Dryad provides a general-purpose home for a wide diversity of data types.
Figshare
Figshare is a repository where users can make all of their research outputs available in a citable, shareable and discoverable manner
Google Dataset Search
searches datasets hosted in thousands of repositories across the Web, making these datasets universally accessible and useful.
NIH Data Sharing Resources
A summary of data repositories supported by the NIH, with information about how to submit and access datasets from NIH-funded research.
Registry of Research Data Repositories (re3data)
Global registry of research data repositories. Subject area is broad including the humanities, sciences, medicine and technology.
Useful for finding appropriate repositories for the storage and access of data sets.