Disciplinary Repositories

Some examples of disciplinary repositories

  • ICPSR
    (Inter-University Consortium for Political and Social Research)
    This organisation of more than 700 academic members manages repositories of social sciences data.
    List of the materials included in the collection of OpenICPSR
  • DRYAD

    DRYAD archives and makes accessible the source data for medical and natural sciences research. DRYAD cooperates with many international publishers of research literature and research journals. The source data can be found and cited together with respective publications.

  • PANGAEA

    Data Publisher for Earth & Environmental Science

  • ONEMercury

    A tool created by DataOne for finding mainly the repositories of geosciences and biology data

           List of medical and biomedical data repositories.

List of freely available geographic datasets. The manager of list is Robin Wilson, a researcher at the University of Southampton.

Additional list of more important disciplinary repositories on the University of Minnesota Libraries homepage.

WorldWideScience.org http://worldwidescience.org/  also contains the datasets.

Core certified repositories meet the requirements for repositories and have obtained Core Trust Seal.