Searching and Finding Research Data
Reusable data can be searched in repositories, data journals, or search engines. The Registry of Research Data Repositories (re3data) provides a search facility for subject-specific repositories.
Data journals also publish data sets with brief descriptions (see also Data Journals at forschungsdaten.org).
In addition, numerous search engines provide reference systems for research data:
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Service |
Link |
Operator |
Indices |
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BASE |
Bielefeld University Library |
Scientific web documents, including research data |
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B2FIND |
EUDAT CDI |
Collections of the data centers of EUDAT and other European repositories |
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DataCite Metadata Search |
DataCite |
Data or digital objects indexed with DOI (Persistent Identifier) |
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OpenAire |
EU-funded initiative |
Research data from EU-funded projects |
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CrossRef |
CrossRef, an international non-profit company in the field of visibility and findability of research results |
Documents of all kinds with DOI, also research data |
When reusing data, the appropriate licensing and referencing systems must always be observed (see Licenses).