Guides: Library support for researchers: Research data

Research data management

Research data management activities include how data is collected, organised, stored, backed-up, preserved, shared, archived and disposed.

Good research data management practices enable data generated in research projects to be preserved and accessed for both current and future use.

Use these repositories to find research data.

ACSPRI - Australian Consortium for Social and Political Research Incorporated
Provides training for researchers in the social sciences research methods. It facilitates access to social science data and provides training to manipulate the data. ACSPRI members also have access to the Inter-university Consortium for Political and Social Research.
ADA - Australian Data Archive
The Australian Data Archive provides a national service for collecting, preserving, publishing and accessing digital research data.
Australian Government Data
Access and reuse public data.
Google Dataset Search
Google Dataset Search is a search engine from Google that helps researchers locate online data that is freely available for use.
ICPSR - Inter-university Consortium for Political & Social Research
International consortium of more than 750 academic and research institutions.
re3data.org
Find research data repositories for specific disciplines.
Research Data Australia
Search for data from over 100 Australian research organisations, government agencies and cultural institutions.