The Open Data sources listed here are provided as a courtesy. The Library does not license these resources, and is not obligated to assist with API management, text and data mining, and other services. The responsibility is with the individual to contact the sites listed for more information.
| Data source | Description | Data access | Further information |
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| Registry of Open Data on Amazon Web Services | Usage examples for all datasets listed in the Registry of Open Data on AWS | Further Information | |
| arXiv Bulk Data Access | Open access to 1,467,637 e-prints in Physics, Mathematics, Computer Science, Quantitative Biology, Quantitative Finance, Statistics, Electrical Engineering and Systems Science, and Economics | Further Information | |
| Australian Bureau of Statistics | Population data from the Australian Bureau of Statistics (ABS) |
API
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ABS.Stat web services user guide |
| Australian Data Archive | National repository for digital research data |
Direct download and API
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| Australian Government's open data | Find, explore and reuse Australia's public data | ||
| Australian Institute of Health and Welfare | Data on health and welfare issues in Australia | Further information | |
| BioMed Central | Scholarly articles in STM (Science, Technology, and Medicine) fields from peer-reviewed open access journals | Direct FTP download, web harvest, or API | |
| BOM data feeds | Weather data from the Bureau of Meteorology | Direct FTP download | BOM weather data services |
| Canada Open Data | Search open data that is relevant to Canadians, learn how to work with datasets, and see what people have done with open data across the country | ||
| CIA factbook | The United States' Central Intelligence Agency's most popular publication -- The World Factbook | ||
| CrossRef Text and Data Mining Services | Crossref metadata helps researchers get access to this content and enables publishers to provide it | ||
| Data.gov.au | Public datasets from Australian government agencies |
API
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CKAN API guide |
| DataCite | DataCite gathers metadata for each DOI assigned to an object. The metadata is used for a large index of research data that can be queried directly to find data, obtain stats and explore connections. All the metadata is free to access and review. | https://search.datacite.org/ | |
| DBPedia | DBpedia is a crowd-sourced community effort to extract structured content from the information created in various Wikimedia projects. | Further Information | |
| Facebook Graph API | Social media data from online social networking service | API with access token | Using the graph API |
| Figshare | Open access scientific data |
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Bridges (the Monash figshare repository) |
| Google Public Data Explorer | Public Data |
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Google Dataset Search |
| HathiTrust Datasets | Public domain works from full text digital library | Online computational environment, direct download, or API | |
| IMF eLibrary data | International Monetary Fund eLibrary data | API | Data services |
| Pew Research Centre | Pew Research Center regularly makes available the full datasets that underlie most of their reports. | How to access Pew Research Center survey data | |
| PDB Protein Data Bank | Since 1971, the Protein Data Bank archive (PDB) has served as the single repository of information about the 3D structures of proteins, nucleic acids, and complex assemblies | Archive download instructions | |
| PLOS | Open access content and metrics from PLOS journals | API | Text and Data Mining at PLOS |
| PubMed Central Open Access Subset | Open access subset of full text archive of biomedical and life sciences journal literature at the US National Institutes of Health’s National Library of Medicine | ||
| re3data | A global registry of research data repositories | FAQ | |
| Research Data Australia | Data discovery service of the Australian Research Data Commons (ARDC) | ||
| Trove | Digital content from Australian libraries, hosted by the National Library of Australia | API with key | |
| Social media data from online social networking service | API with key and access token | API overview | |
| US Government’s Open data | Includes data from Library of Congress, Census Bureau, etc and tools and resources to conduct research, develop web and mobile applications, design data visualizations, and more. | API | https://www.data.gov/ |
| US Health open data | Includes National Institutes of Health, National Library of Medicine, and data on a range of topics, like environmental health, medical devices, Medicare & Medicaid, social services, community health, mental health, and substance abuse. | https://healthdata.gov/ | |
| WikiData | Structured data from Wikipedia and other open knowledge bases | Direct download or API | Wikidata: data access |
| World Health Organization | Information to come |