[Eril-l] resources to help students find free datasets across the curriculum?

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On Tue, Feb 22, 2022 at 12:45 PM Mark M England <mark.england at utah.edu>
wrote:

> Hi,
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> Certainly more needs to be done, and there is no comprehensive discovery
> tool,  but these would be the more impactful ones I think of:
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> CESSDA (Consortium of European Social Science Data Archives)
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> Data Citation Index
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> Data Repositories Open Access Directory
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> Datamed.org
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> Dataverse
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> Google Dataset
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> re3data.org
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> Dimensions
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> OpenAire
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> Eu Open Data Portal
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> Data.gov
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> HealthData.gov
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> Mark England
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> Head, Collection Management
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> University of Utah Marriott Library
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> Mobile Phone: 701-212-8492
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> Email: mark.england at utah.edu
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> *From:* Eril-l <eril-l-bounces at lists.eril-l.org> *On Behalf Of *Melissa
> Belvadi
> *Sent:* Tuesday, February 22, 2022 11:48 AM
> *To:* ERIL-L listserv <eril-l at lists.eril-l.org>
> *Subject:* [Eril-l] resources to help students find free datasets across
> the curriculum?
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> Hi,
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> Does anyone know of any free or commercial-subscription databases that
> help students find raw datasets to use in their papers/projects, across the
> curriculum?
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> They could be large research datasets associated with a specific faculty
> research project/publication, or sets coming out of government agencies
> (hopefully not just the US), or NGOs/intergovernmental agencies, or any
> other reliable producers of raw datasets.
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> So far I am under the impression that so much of this is freely available,
> but so widely scattered all over the Internet, that we could really use a
> comprehensive, multidisciplinary finding tool.
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> The closest I've found so far is ICPSR, which is along the idea I have in
> mind, but not nearly comprehensive enough and also totally US-centric.
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> There seems to be some effort in this regard specifically for biomed data,
> especially from the NIH, but I'm looking for something truly
> multidisciplinary, like a Google Scholar or Academic Search/OneFile
> Academic for datasets rather than books/articles.
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> I think this may be to the 2020s what videos were for academic libraries
> 20 years ago - something on our periphery that needs to be given the same
> quality of discovery/access tools as we do for books and articles, and now
> videos.
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> So far what I can find is mostly Libguide type of advice with a handful of
> links - we would never try to make a libguide as our only discovery tool
> for our books, and maybe it's time we provide datasets with a similar
> serious search index. Or have we, and I just don't know about it?
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> Melissa Belvadi
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> Collections Librarian
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> University of Prince Edward Island
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> mbelvadi at upei.ca
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