Guides: Research Data Management: Find (re-use) data

Research Data Access Portal

Data Access Portal - Access here
Provides open access to research collections and datasets developed or collected by UniSA.

Data citation

Why?
How to cite data

"It is now considered ‘best practice’ to provide a reference to data and software in the same way as researchers routinely provide a bibliographic reference to outputs such as journal articles, reports and conference papers. Citing data and software is one of the key practices leading to recognition of data and software as a primary research output." -- Data Citation (ARDC)

You need to credit the original source of any data you re-use so:

creators can have their data recognised as a separate research output
the impact of data usage can be tracked through data citation metrics
data can be verified

Data citation
General information page on data citation and its benefits from ARDC.

Creators / authors may specify exactly how they want you to attribute their data. If it is unclear or they do not specify you should include the following details where possible:

Creator(s) / Author(s) / Authoring body
Publication date
Dataset title
Version
Publisher or Host name
Date viewed
Identifier (URL, DOI or Handle)

Example:

Data Citation example [Screenshot: UniSA Data Access portal, https://data.unisa.edu.au/Dataset.aspx?DatasetID=46021]

Cite your data
Advice and examples from DataCite (a non-for-profit organisation).
How to cite research data and software
Examples of data citation from ARDC

Find data

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Aboriginal & Torres Strait Islander (ATSIDA)
A specialised trusted RDM facility for Australian Aboriginal research data managed by UTS Library.
Australian Data Archive (ADA)
A national service for the collection and preservation of digital research data and to make these data available for secondary analysis.
CSIRO Data Access Portal
Provides access to data published by CSIRO across a range of disciplines.
Research Data Australia
Find, access, and reuse data for research from over 100 Australian research organisations, government agencies, and cultural institutions.
SA-NT DataLink
Data linkage services supporting research, policy development, service planning and evaluation.

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DataOne
A federation of 30 data repositories in the natural sciences. Some are domain-specific subject repositories, others are institutional repositories at government agencies and universities.
European Union Open Data Portal
Your single point of access to a growing range of data produced by the institutions and other bodies of the European Union. Free to use, reuse, link and redistribute for commercial or non-commercial purposes.
Harvard Dataverse
Share, publish, and archive your data. Find and cite data across all research fields.
re3data.org (Registry of Research Data Repositories)
A global registry of research data repositories that covers research data repositories from different academic disciplines. Funded by the German Research Foundation (DFG). Select 'Search' to look for relevant datasets.
UK Data Archive
Acquires, curates and provides access to the UK's largest collection of social and economic data.
UN data
UN statistical databases through a single entry point. Search and download a variety of statistical resources of the UN system.

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Australian Bureau of Statistics (ABS)
Find Australian census data on a range of topic areas.
Data.gov
The U.S. Government's open data.
Data.gov.au
Find, access and reuse public datasets from the Australian Government. It encourages public access to and reuse of government data by providing it in useful formats.
Data.gov.uk
The U.K. Government's public data on how the government works and how policies are made.
Data.SA
Locate openly licensed data so you can transform that data, creating new ideas and applications. Open data enables improved investment decisions, research and well-planned service delivery.

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CANCERMondial
Access various databases containing information on the occurrence of cancer worldwide held and managed by the Section of Cancer Surveillance (CSU) of IARC.
GenBank
Designed to provide and encourage access within the scientific community to the most up to date and comprehensive DNA sequence information.
Gene Expression Omnibus
A public functional genomics data repository supporting MIAME-compliant data submissions.
Global Health Observatory (GHO) data
Contains an extensive list of indicators, which can be selected by theme or through a multi-dimension query functionality.
The Population Health Research Network (PHRN)
A ground-breaking program aimed at creating Australia's first national data linkage network.
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Established with the backing of the Australian Government (as part of the National Collaborative Research Infrastructure Strategy) and supported by every Australian state and territory, the PHRN has built a network that will enable existing health data from around the nation to be brought together and made available for vital health and health related research purposes.
SA-NT DataLink
Data linkage services supporting research, policy development, service planning and evaluation.
The Yale University Open Data Access (YODA) Project
Advocating the responsible sharing of clinical research data, open science, and research transparency. It is committed to supporting research focused on improving the health of patients and informing science and public health.

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Australian Urban Research Infrastructure Network (AURIN)
AURIN aims to provide urban and built environment researchers with access to diverse sources of data, data integration capabilities, and an e-research capability for interrogating those data.
DataOne
A federation of 30 data repositories in the natural sciences. Some are domain-specific subject repositories, others are institutional repositories at government agencies and universities.
Geoscience Australia - data and publications
An extensive catalogue of data, publications, online tools, maps and videos.
Environmental information and data
Provides a listing of popular resources, web services, open data sources curated by the Australian Department of Climate Change, Energy, the Environment and Water.
PANGAEA
An Open Access library aimed at archiving, publishing and distributing georeferenced data from earth system research.
Terrestrial Ecosystem Research Network (TERN) Data Discovery Portal
Delivering open access to Australia's terrestrial ecosystem data.
TreeBASE
Phylogenetic information, specifically user-submitted phylogenetic trees and the data used to generate them. TreeBASE accepts all types of phylogenetic data representing all biotic taxa.

Image of person searching Data journals feature short data articles that describe data sets and link to full data in repositories. They make it easier for researchers to publish their data and make it accessible.

Examples of data journals include:

Recent journal articles on data journals and data sharing:

Walters, WH.. 2020. “Data Journals: Incentivizing Data Access and Documentation Within the Scholarly Communication System”. Insights 33 (1): 18. DOI: http://doi.org/10.1629/uksg.510

Hrynaszkiewicz, I, Harney, J and Cadwallader, L. 2021. A Survey of Researchers’ Needs and Priorities for Data Sharing. Data Science Journal, 20: 31, pp. 1–16. DOI: https://doi. org/10.5334/dsj-2021-031

An overview of ANDS investigations of data journals. Webinar also looks at recent initiatives, current examples and future directions of data publishing.