Statistics, Open Access Data and Research Portals: Home
Overview
Open access statistics and datasets from federal government agencies are available for download in various formats. See also research portals. Begin with the portals on this page and then review available datasets, etc. by the subject categories.
Data portals
- Data.govPortal for 200,000 open-access federal government data sets, some state and local. Multiple filter options, range of formats for download.
- Science.govGateway to U.S. federal science. Search across 60 databases and over 2,200 scientific websites. Limit search results to the Public Access category which enables searching of peer-reviewed scholarly publications (journal articles and accepted manuscripts) resulting from federally funded scientific research. There are currently 15 federal repositories supporting public access.
- NIST DataBroad spectrum of science and technology data sources.
Research portals
- National Institute of Standards and TechnologyPhysical science laboratory under the Department of Commerce. Search Publications or explore by topic.
- National Science Foundation Public Access RepositoryWhere NSF-funded investigators deposit peer-reviewed, published journal articles and juried conference papers.
- Smithsonian Research OnlineBroad spectrum of science and technology data resources.
- Smithsonian Contributions SeriesAnthropology, Astrophysics, Botany, History and Technology, Paleobiology, Earth Sciences, Marine Sciences, Zoology.
Repositories
- ScienceBaseCollaborative data management platform, via U.S. Geological Survey.
- Registry of Research Data RepositoriesGlobal registry of research data repositories that covers research data repositories from different academic disciplines. It includes repositories that enable permanent storage of and access to data sets to researchers, funding bodies, publishers, and scholarly institutions.
- DataLumosICPSR archive for valuable government data resources.
- Harvard DataverseFree 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.