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<p class="MsoNormal">It looks like Google has made a stab at this:<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><a href="https://www.google.com/publicdata/directory">https://www.google.com/publicdata/directory</a><o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">And this one is from Simmons. Not a search tool but a directory.<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><a href="http://oad.simmons.edu/oadwiki/Data_repositories">http://oad.simmons.edu/oadwiki/Data_repositories</a><o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">Beth<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">Beth Evans<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Brooklyn College Library<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">City University of New York<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><b>From:</b> Eril-l <eril-l-bounces@lists.eril-l.org> <b>On Behalf Of
</b>Melissa Belvadi<br>
<b>Sent:</b> Tuesday, February 22, 2022 1:48 PM<br>
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<b>Subject:</b> [Eril-l] resources to help students find free datasets across the curriculum?<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;color:black">Hi,<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;color:black">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?<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;color:black;background:white">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><span style="font-size:12.0pt;color:black">
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;color:black;background:white">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.</span><span style="font-size:12.0pt;color:black"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;color:black;background:white">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><span style="font-size:12.0pt;color:black"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;color:black">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.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;color:black;background:white">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><span style="font-size:12.0pt;color:black"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;color:black;background:white">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 style="font-size:12.0pt;color:black"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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