Penn State University Libraries - Data Repositories

Data Repositories, Open Data, and Open Access

As Open Science Data and Open Access, both exemplifying approaches to unrestricted dissemination of research and scholarship, gain traction in academic communities, the potential for repositories and networks encouraging the sharing of data also grows. An Open Data Query service exists, where you enquire of data holders about the openness and availability of their data. For more about Open Access and Open Data, see the Scholarly Publishing and Academic Resources Coalition (SPARC).

Below is a selected list of repositories and networks founded on the idea of making data publicly accessible:

• ChemXSeer - chemistry data
• DANS - Data Archiving and Networked Services (Netherlands, for arts, humanities, and social sciences)
• DataONE - Data Observation Network for Earth
• Dataverse
• Dryad - basic and applied bioscience
• GenBank
• Geoscience Data Repository (Canada)
• ICPSR - Inter-University Consortium for Political and Social Research
• NeON - National Ecological Observatory Network
• Oak Ridge National Laboratory Distributed Active Archive Center for Biogeochemical Dynamics
  
• OpenDOAR - Directory of Open Access Repositories
• OpenEI - Open Energy Information
  
• PASDA - Pennsylvania Spatial Data Access
  
• PlaNET - network of European plant databases
• Archeology: Open Context and Digital Archaeological Record

See Wikipedia's entries for "Data Repositories" and "Disciplinary Repositories." Also take a look at Purdue's list of "Other Data Repositories" for more of these types of resources.