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Research Data Management

Finding Data

There are several avenues for finding published data, including:

Subject or discipline based repositories
Institutional repositories, such as the USC Research Bank
Government websites
Data catalogues
Data directories
Data journals.

Subject or Discipline Based Repositories

Government Websites

Queensland Government Data
A collection of datasets created by Queensland Government agencies.
Data.gov.au
A collection of datasets from the Australian Government for access and reuse.

Data Catalogues

Research Data Australia
Catalogue of Australian research data collections.

Data Directories

Databib
Searchable catalogue of research data repositories.
Re3data.org
Global registry of research data repositories.
The Open Access Directory: Data Repositories
The Open Access Directory is a compendium of simple factual lists about open access to science and scholarship, maintained by the OA community at large.

Data Journals

Many journals now require research data to be made available for replication and verification, including:

American Physiological Society
American Society for Biochemistry & Molecular Biology
BioMed Central
Nature Publishing Group
Public Library of Science (PLoS)
University of York - Internet Archeology
Wiley Interscience - Evolution
Wiley/Blackwell - Polar Research; Proteomics

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