Data

FAIR, CARE, & TRUST Principles

The FAIR acronym and principles were defined in a March 2016 paper in the journal Scientific Data by a consortium of scientists and organizations

Wilkinson et al. (2016) established the guidelines to improve the Findability, Accessibility, Interoperability, and Reuse (FAIR) of digital assets for research.

Go-FAIR website - official FAIR principles implementation guidance

Carroll et al. (2020) established the CARE Principles for Indigenous Data Governance.

full document - one-page CARE principles summary
US Indigenous Data Sovereignty Network - advancing Indigenous data governance and sovereignty

Lin et al. (2020) created the TRUST pinciples for digital repositories.

TRUST Principles - digital repository transparency and sustainability principles

Data Use Agreements¶

MIT model data use agreements - templates for administrative data sharing agreements

Databrary Access Agreement - permits restricted access for data use and contribution by institutionally-authorized researchers who join Databrary

Regulations¶

European General Data Protection (GDPR) - EU data privacy and protection regulation

US HIPAA - health information privacy and security standards

License Types¶

Creative Commons Licenses - open content licenses for creative works

Open Datacommons - open licenses specifically for data and databases

Open Source Initiative Licenses - approved open source software licenses

Accessibility¶

W3 ARIA Suite - Accessible Rich Internet Applications (ARIA)

Web Accessibility Evaluation Tools List - comprehensive list of web accessibility testing tools

WAI-ARIA - Web Accessibility Initiative ARIA standards and guidelines

Mozilla ARIA - developer documentation for ARIA implementation

NVDA - screen reading software

JAWS - screen reading software

Data Repositories¶

Nature Scientific Data Repositories - Recommended - metalist of data repositories recommended for Nature science articles

Databrary – NSF and NIH-funded repository specialized for storing and sharing video data and other identifiable data from human subjects research. Based at New York University.

Dryad – started as US NSF project, used for data sets of any type that correspond to a research paper.

EBRAINS - European brain research infrastructure and data platform

EUDAT - network of European research organizations for data services

European Data Portal - central access point for European open data

Figshare - repository for research outputs in any format

GitHub - version control and code repository platform

G-Node - German Neuroinformatics Node

Harvard Dataverse – offers free storage of research data, owned by Harvard

Merritt - an open-source digital preservation repository maintained by the University of California Curation Center (UC3) at the California Digital Library (CDL).

Mendeley Data - free research data repository by Elsevier

NITRC - Neuroimaging Informatics Tools and Resources Collaboratory

NeuroLibre - preprints for computational neuroscience with executable notebooks

Open Access Directory - curated list of open data repositories

OpenNeuro - free platform for neuroimaging data sharing

Open Science Framework - free platform for research workflow and collaboration

PLOS Recommended Repositories - discipline-specific repositories recommended by PLOS journals

PrePubMed - search engine for biomedical preprints and publications

Registry of Research Data Repositories - global registry of research data repositories

The Winnower (defunct) - platform is no longer active

Zenodo – EU-funded project by OpenAire, it is hosted by CERN. Useful for EU-funded projects because reports back to the EU research Participant Portal.

Protocols and Bench Techniques¶

BioProtocol - peer-reviewed protocol journal for biological research

Current Protocols - step-by-step laboratory protocols across life sciences

Gold Biotechnology Protocol list - collection of molecular biology protocols and techniques

JoVE - Journal of Visualized Experiments with video protocols

Nature Protocols - peer-reviewed journal for research protocols

OpenWetWare - wiki for sharing biology protocols and methods

Protocol Exchange (archived, now part of protocols.io) - protocol sharing platform merged with protocols.io

Protocols Online - free collection of life science protocols

Protocols.io - largest open repository of scientific protocols

SciGene - laboratory equipment manufacturer for cytogenetics

Springer Nature Experiments - platform for publishing and discovering research methods

Software & Code Repositories¶

GitHub - most widely used version control and code hosting platform

GitLab - DevOps platform with Git repository management

SourceForge - hosting for open source software projects

Apache Subversion - centralized version control system

Agricultural Data Repositories¶

Berkeley Library Agricultural and Resource Economics - guide to finding agricultural and economics data

Data.World Agriculture Datasets - curated agricultural data collections

Farmers.gov Data - USDA data portal for farmers and researchers

USDA Ag Data Commons - US Department of Agriculture central data repository

USDA Forest Service Data Clearinghouse - geospatial forestry and natural resource data

USDA Forest Service ArcGIS Data - Forest Service ArcGIS Hub with maps

World Bank Agriculture Data - global agricultural indicators and statistics

Biological Data Repositories¶

European Molecular Biology Laboratory (EMBL) - European Bioinformatics Institute with genomics databases

Global Biodiversity Information Facility (GBIF) - 1.6B+ species occurrence records worldwide

National Center for Biotechnology Information (NCBI) - US genomics and biomedical literature databases

NIMH Genetics - NIH mental health genetics research repository

Public Data on Commercial Cloud¶

Earth on AWS - The Registry of Open Data on AWS helps you discover and share datasets that are available via AWS resources.

Google Earth Engine - petabyte-scale planetary geospatial analysis platform

Google Earth Engine Community Catalog¶

Awesome GEE Community Catalog - community-driven collection of 500+ geospatial datasets for Google Earth Engine, curated by Samapriya Roy. Includes atmospheric data, elevation models, land use/land cover, climate data, and specialized geoscience datasets not available in the official GEE catalog.

Microsoft AI for Earth Datasets - environmental and sustainability datasets on Azure

Microsoft Planetary Computer - multi-petabyte Earth observation data catalog with analytics

Torrents¶

Academic Torrents - BitTorrent repository for research datasets and papers

US Government Data¶

GeoPlatform.gov - federal geospatial data and mapping platform

US Government Public Data - central repository for US federal open data

EPA Data - Environmental Protection Agency datasets and tools

NASA Data - NASA's open data portal for space missions

USGS Data - US Geological Survey science data catalog

EU Government Data¶

European Space Agency Data - ESA Earth observation missions and data

Copernicus Climate Data Store - European climate reanalysis and projection datasets

Ecological Research Data Repositories¶

eBird - provides open data access in several formats to logged-in users, ranging from raw data to processed datasets geared toward more rigorous scientific modeling.

Environmental Data Initiative - repository for Long Term Ecological Research (LTER) network as well as community contributed datasets

FLUXNET - global network of eddy covariance flux towers

Long Term Agricultural Research (LTAR) - USDA long-term agroecosystem research data

National Ecological Observatory Network (NEON) - continental-scale ecological observation data from 81 sites

NCAR/UCAR Data Archive - atmospheric and climate research data archive

US National Phenology Network - plant and animal phenology observations

Earth Science Research Data Repositories¶

Multi-Mission Algorithm and Analysis Platform (MAAP) - NASA/ESA platform for biomass and forest data

NOAA Data - ocean, atmosphere, and climate datasets

NOAA Climate Data - historical climate observations and weather records

UK Met Office Data - UK weather and climate research data

Open Data Cube - open-source platform for satellite Earth observation analysis

Africa Regional Data Cube - satellite data infrastructure for Africa

Australia Open Data Cube - Australian government's Earth observation data platform

Brazil Data Cube - Brazilian satellite data infrastructure and analysis

Public Data Sets¶

OpenStreetMap (OSM) - collaborative global map created by volunteers

OSM US Forest Service Data - Forest Service datasets available in OpenStreetMap

Standards¶

W3C (World Wide Web Consortium) - international web standards organization

EDM Council - enterprise data management standards and ontologies

Additional Resources¶

Figshare - repository for research outputs in any format

Nature Data Repository Guidance - recommended repositories for Nature publications

Registry of Research Data Repositories (re3data) - global registry of 3000+ research data repositories

PLOS Open Data - PLOS policies and guidance for data