Data Management Guide

There is currently no single tool for searching research and scientific data that can reliably search all repositories. The best tools for searching scientific data include:

Training

Dataset Search

Google Dataset Search is a search engine for easily finding and accessing publicly available research datasets from a variety of disciplines and sources around the world

DRYAD

An open repository for storing and sharing research data across scientific disciplines, supporting open access and ensuring the long-term availability of data

FAIRsharing

An online platform that provides a database of standards, data repositories and guidelines to support the principles of FAIR and open science

Harvard Dataverse

An open repository that enables the storage, sharing and management of research data to promote its accessibility and reuse across disciplines

Nature Scientific Data

An open access journal that publishes descriptions of high quality research datasets to support FAIR principles of scientific studies

re3data

A global data repository registry that allows researchers to search and retrieve information about repositories for storing, sharing and managing research data across disciplines

ZENODO

Enables researchers around the world to store, share and publish research data, papers, software tools and other outputs across disciplines, supporting the principles of open science

The following sources can be used to find public sector data:

data.europa.eu

The European Union's central portal for open data, which provides access to datasets from various European institutions and member countries

data.gov.cz

National Open Data Portal of the Czech Republic, which provides access to public administration datasets

In the Czech Republic, the National Metadata Directory has been created as part of the EOSC initiative, which will gradually make it possible to trace datasets in the repositories of the Czech National Data Infrastructure for Research Data.

National Metadata Directory

Enables search and access to scientific data metadata and repositories