Searching for open data
Depending on where it was uploaded, open research data can be found in a data repository, special data journal, or as a supplement to a journal article.
If the research data has been made available through a repository with long-term storage and the data includes reliable metadata, others are able to search for, find and reuse the data. Furthermore, if the dataset has been provided with a unique ID, a so-called ‘persistent identifier’ (PID) such as a DOI (digital object identifier), the data is also citable.
Registry of research data repositories is a search engine for subject-specific archives with open data. It is an archive with 1 500 different research data repositories from all over the
world.
Registry of research data repositories
General/multidisciplinary repositories
There are a number of repositories where you can search for data but also deposit your own and obtain DOIs for data identification purposes. Here are some examples:
National infrastructures and scientific subject-specific archives
- Humanities, social sciences and medicine:
Swedish National Data Service (SND) - Environmental and climate research:
Environment Climate Data Sweden (ECDS) - The Swedish Research Council’s list of national and international infrastructures which have received maintenance funding in 2016:
Infrastructures for research - BILS (Bioinformatics Infrastructure for Life Sciences)
- Supports research in biology - Global Biodiversity Information Facility GBIF-Sweden
- For free access to data on biological diversity - ESS – ERIC (European Social Survey)
- Makes social data for international comparison available
