<div dir="ltr">Hi Melissa,<div><br></div><div>Google created <a href="https://datasetsearch.research.google.com/">Dataset Search</a> to help researchers find freely available online datasets. I remember looking at it when it first came out a few years ago and wasn't particularly impressed. But, that was very early days, probably 3 years ago, when it was still in beta testing. It's been out of beta for a couple of years now.</div><div><br></div><div>If that doesn't do the job, the University of North Texas has a libguide on <a href="https://guides.library.unt.edu/datasets/search-engines">finding datasets.</a></div><div><br></div><div>-Kathleen</div></div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Tue, Feb 22, 2022 at 1:48 PM Melissa Belvadi <<a href="mailto:mbelvadi@upei.ca">mbelvadi@upei.ca</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex">
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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?</div>
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<span style="margin:0px;font-size:12pt;background-color:rgb(255,255,255)">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
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<span style="margin:0px;font-size:12pt;background-color:rgb(255,255,255)">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
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<span style="margin:0px;font-size:12pt;background-color:rgb(255,255,255)">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.</span></div>
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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.</div>
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<span style="margin:0px;font-size:12pt;background-color:rgb(255,255,255)"><span style="background-color:rgb(255,255,255);display:inline">I think this may be to the 2020s what videos were for academic libraries 20 years ago - something on our
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<span style="margin:0px;font-size:12pt;background-color:rgb(255,255,255)"><span style="background-color:rgb(255,255,255);display:inline">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?</span></span></div>
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