We've put together a collection of data sources, both general and discipline-specific, that researchers at the University of Sydney may find useful; however, this collection is by no means comprehensive. If you don't find what you're looking for here, then use the search strategies to locate data relevant to you.
Australian Bureau of Statistics – Australia’s official statistical organisation provides freely available data for social, health, economic and demographic research, and census data for 1996–2006. Applications for access to microdata files, which contain detailed information about individuals, can be made on the ABS website.
Awesome public datasets – A list of datasets for a range of topics and disciplines. Most, but not all, of the datasets are freely available.
Data.gov.au – A repository of data published by the Australian government and other public institutions. Most data here is freely available.
DataCite Search – Searches across datasets that have been give digital object identifiers (DOIs), enabling you to to search, filter and extract all the details from a collection of millions of records.
Research Data Australia – Provides information and access to data from over one hundred Australian research organisations, government agencies, and cultural institutions.
Dryad – General repository for research data.
Mendeley Data – General repository for research data.
Figshare – General repository for research outputs, including data.
Zenodo – General repository for research outputs, including data.
Australian Bureau of Meteorology – A catalogue of data collected by the Bureau of Meteorology, including the Climate Data Online dataset of historical weather, temperature, rainfall and solar exposure data.
DataOne Search – Allows users to search across the thousands of publicly accessible data packages within the DataONE (Data Observation Network for Earth) Member Nodes.
Geoscience Australia – Geological, geophysical and geographical data, maps and models from Australia's official geoscience organisation.
Pangaea – Repository of freely available earth and life sciences data. Data editors review data submitted to the repository, ensuring the integrity, authenticity and high usability of datasets.
Bioplatforms Australia Data Portal – Genetics datasets from many different Australian research projects. You can browse by project or search for individual datasets.
GenBank – An annotated collection of all publicly available DNA sequences, made available by the US National Institutes of Health (NIH).
DataMed – A prototype biomedical data search engine that searches for datasets across specific data repositories and sources.
UK Biobank – A longitudinal health resource that follows the health and well-being of 500,000 volunteer participants.
DocNow Tweet Catalog – a list of publicly available datasets of tweet identifiers. These Twitter datasets cover a wide range of topics, from political events, activism trends, natural disasters, through to the COVID-19 pandemic.
Australian Data Archive (ADA) – Archive of social science research data available to academic researchers and other users. ADA International is also a repository for studies by Australian researchers conducted in other countries, particularly throughout the Asia-Pacific region. ADA provide detailed information on how to access ADA data.
Inter-University Consortium for Political and Social Research (ICPSR) – Data archive of research in the social and behavioral sciences, including specialised collections of data in education, aging, criminal justice, substance abuse, terrorism, and other fields.
Asian Development Bank – Hosts publicly available data on key economic, financial, and social indicators compiled from developing member countries and other international sources.
Australian Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade – DFAT provide freely available PDF fact sheets that give an economic snapshot of selected countries and regions as well as statistics on Australia’s trade and economy. They also provide aid budget and statistical information.
The Humanitarian Data Exchange – An open platform for sharing humanitarian and crisis data across crises and organisations. The platform is managed by the UN Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs.
Secretariat of the Pacific Community (SPC) – Provides demographic, economic and social indicators for the Pacific region.
United Nations Economic and Social Commission for Asia and the Pacific (ESCAP) – ESCAP maintains a statistical database, updated twice a year, with data relating to development issues in Asia and the Pacific.
World Bank Open Data – Provides social, economic, financial and environmental indicators for over 200 countries.
Aboriginal & Torres Strait Islander Data Archive (ATSIDA) – A specialised trusted research data management facility for Australian Indigenous research data.
First Nations Data Centre (FNDC) – Provides access to unpublished and record-level data from First Nations Information Governance Centre's respected survey work, including the First Nations Regional Health Survey and the First Nations Regional Early Childhood, Education and Employment Survey.
Footprints in Time: The Longitudinal Study of Indigenous Children – follows the development of around 1,700 Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander children and their families across urban, regional and remote Australia.
Australian GLAM data – A list of links to datasets, portals and APIs produced by various Australian galleries, libraries, archives and museums.
British Library data – The British Library is making copies of some of its datasets available for research and creative purposes. These are quite varied, from digitised manuscripts, to keylogging data of an author writing a novel, to archives of UK websites, and others.
National Library of Scotland Data Foundry – Data collections from the National Library of Scotland, including digitised items, collections of item metadata, maps and spatial data, and organisation data.
PARADISEC (the Pacific And Regional Archive for Digital Sources in Endangered Cultures) – A digital archive of records of some of the many small cultures and languages of the world.
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