Neuroscience Librarian
Finding Data
The open web provides a plethora of resources for finding data. Try using advanced Google searching, or check out the other recommended resources below.
Tips for searching Google include:
• Try using Google Advanced Search
• Include search terms like data or table
• Google ignores the word AND as a search operator. But typing OR in all caps will find similar or related terms (e.g. women OR females OR girls).
• Search for a particular document type (e.g. childhood obesity filetype:xls)
• Search for data on a particular site or domain (e.g. childhood obesity site:.gov)
• Exclude words by using the "-" sign in front of the word you wish to exclude
Other places to find data
Dryad
Find and archive data files associated with any published article in the sciences or medicine.
figshare
A repository where users can make all of their research outputs available in a citable, shareable and discoverable manner.
Milne Library Data Collections guide
Includes a list of open data sets organized by topic, info on using data from the U.S. Census, and a list of online data repositories to search.
Data By Topic
Health Statistics
- CDC National Survey CollectionsPublic health statistics
- HealthData.govDatasets, tools, and applications gathered from agencies across the Federal government
- National Center for Health Statistics (NCHS)Contains current data from surveys such as the National Health Interview Survey (NHIS), the National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey (NHANES), birth and mortality detail files, National Immunization Survey, Longitudinal Study of Aging, and National Survey of Family Growth (NSFG)
Neuroscience Statistics
- KnowledgeSpaceKnowledgeSpace aims to be a globally-used, community-based, data-driven encyclopedia for neuroscience that links brain research concepts to data, models, and the literature that support them. Further it aims to serve as a framework where large-scale neuroscience projects can expose their data to the neuroscience community-at-large.
- BioPortalOur vision is that all biomedical knowledge and data are disseminated on the Internet using principled ontologies in such a way that the knowledge and data are semantically interoperable and useful for furthering biomedical science and clinical care.
