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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
agencies, or any other reliable producers of raw datasets.</span>
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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 !important">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.</span><br>
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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 !important">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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