Databases and Repositories for Research Data

The databases are available among other databases at SDU library here, where you can browse for the databases below. 

Infomedia
Infomedia provides national, regional, and local newspapers in Denmark. 

Consortium of European Social Science Data Archives 
CESSDA provides large-scale, integrated, and sustainable data services to the social sciences.

Eikon
Eikon provides international financial, economic, stock market and company data. This database is accessible through one of the stand-alone computers at the SDU library in Odense. 

European Social Survey
The European Social Survey (ESS) is an academically driven cross-national survey.

OECD Health Data
Data and research on health including biotechnology, cancer, health care, health spending, health insurance and more. 

OECD iLibrary Statistics
OECD iLibrary Statistics is the online library of the Organisation for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD) featuring its books, papers and statistics and is the gateway to OECD's analysis and data.

Rigsarkivet Surveydata
Denmark’s largest collection of questionnaire-based research data to researchers and students.

Surveybanken 
In SurveyBanken you can make your own analyses of the Danes' attitudes e.g. towards work, the welfare state, politicians, immigration and more.

WDI Online (World Bank)
DataBank is an analysis and visualisation tool that contains collections of time series data on a variety of topics within societal and economic development.

Wharton Research Data Services (WRDS) 
Wharton Research Data Services (WRDS) is online platform providing access to deep archives of historical financial, accounting, banking, economics and more.

Danmarks Statistik
Danmarks Statistik provides national about Denmark and its inhabitants. 

Octoparse
Octoparse displays a variety of resources to extract free data. See the list of resources here. 

EU Open Data Portal 
The EU Open Data Portal provides data from the institutions and other bodies of the European Union.

Data.gov 
Data.gov gives access to data, tools, and resources to conduct research.

Data.gov.uk 
Data.gov.uk gives access to data published by the UK government, local authorities and public bodies. 

U.S. National Center for Education Statistics 
The U.S. National Center for Education Statistics provides data related to education in the U.S. and other nations.

UK Data Service 
UK Data Service gives access to UK government-sponsored surveys, cross-national surveys, longitudinal studies, UK census data, international aggregate, business data, and qualitative data. 

UNICEF 
UNICEF gives access to data the situation of children and women around the world. 

WHO (World Health Organisation) 
WHO provides statistics concerning nutrition, disease, and health worldwide. 

Healthdata.gov
Healthdata.gov gives access to 125 years of US healthcare data including claim-level Medicare data, epidemiology, and population statistics.

World Bank Open Data
World Bank Open Data contains statistics about everything from finances to service delivery indicators around the world.

The New York Times Developer Network 
The New York Times Developer Network gives access to articles from 1851 to today, retrieving headlines, abstracts, and links to associated multimedia. You can also search book reviews, NYC event listings, movie reviews, top stories with images and more.

Mockaroo
Mockaroo gives access to convincing but fake data, where you can train your data handling skills. 

DeiC Dataverse is the Danish National Repository for research data intended to support data management infrastructure, where researchers from Danish research institutions have the opportunity to publish research (meta)data. It allows researchers to publish and archive their research (meta)data in line with the FAIR principles, including metadata descriptions, DOI’s (Digital Object Identifiers) as persistent identifiers and clearly defined terms and conditions for access and reuse.

Soon SDU will have it's own SDU DeiC Dataverse implementation. Currently, researchers can choose from a multitude of different discipline-specific and generalist research data repositories from public and commercial providers. Some of them are mentioned at the Nature's data repository guidance and can be found below. 

Biological sciences

Nucleic acid sequence

Protein sequence 

Molecular & supramolecular structure 

These repositories accept structural data for small molecules; peptides and proteins (all); and larger assemblies (EMDB).

Neuroscience

These data repositories all accept human-derived data (NeuroMorpho.org and G-Node also accept data from other organisms). Please note that human-subject data submitted to OpenfMRI must be de-identified.

Omics

Functional genomics

Data should be deposited following the relevant community requirements where possible.

Please refer to the MIAME standard for microarray data. Molecular interaction data should be deposited with a member of the International Molecular Exchange Consortium (IMEx), following the MIMIx recommendations.

For data linking genotyping and phenotyping information in human subjects, we strongly recommend submission to dbGAP, EGA or JGA, which have mechanisms in place to handle sensitive data.

Metabolomics & Proteomics

Taxonomy & species diversity 

Mathematical & modelling resources

Cytometry and Immunology 

Imaging

Organism-focused resources

These resources provide information specific to a particular organism or disease pathogen. They may accept phenotype information, sequences, genome annotations and gene expression patterns, among other types of data. Incorporating data into these resources can be very valuable for promoting reuse within these specific communities; however, where applicable, we ask that data records be submitted both to a community repository and to one suitable for the type of data (e.g. transcriptome profiling; please see above).

Health sciences

Some of the repositories in this section are suitable for datasets requiring restricted data access, which may be required for the preservation of study participant anonymity in clinical datasets. We suggest contacting repositories directly to determine those with data access controls best suited to the specific requirements of your study.

Chemistry and Chemical biology

Broad scope Earth & environmental sciences

Astronomy & planetary sciences 

Biogeochemistry and Geochemistry

Climate sciences

Ecology

Geomagnetism & Palaeomagnetism

Ocean sciences

Solid Earth sciences

Physics

Materials science

Social sciences

Generalist repositories

When a data-type specific repository is not available, the following generalist repositories might be suitable. Generalist repositories may also be appropriate for archiving associated analyses, or experimental-control data, supplementing the primary data in a discipline-specific repository.