LibGuides: Data Services: Data Sources

Finding Data

Raw data collected by other researches can be reanalyzed to answer a new research question. Public repositories and Health Datasets are provided.

Your Liaison Librarian can assist in locating a specific data sets to answer your research question.

Data reuse
Learn how to find data to reuse, and what to do when you get the data.

PubMed Data Filter

Data Filters in PubMed and PubMed Central (PMC) allow you to locate journal articles with associated data sets.

For PubMed, conduct a search using your keywords. Then add in data[filter].
Example of a search string: (diabetes AND data[filter])

The results will be citations with related data links in either the Secondary Source ID field or the LinkOut - Other Literature Resources field. Both fields are located below the abstract. These data links may be to records in other NLM databases or external data repositories.

For PubMed Central, you have three different methods for finding specific types of associated datas.

Use has suppdata[filter] to find articles with associated supplementary material.
Use has data avail[filter] to find articles that include a data availability or data accessibility statement.
Use has data citations[filter] to find articles that include data citation(s).

Alternatively, use has associated data[filter] to find all articles with any type of data section described above

Data Sources

American Fact Finder
American FactFinder provides access to data about the United States, Puerto Rico and the Island Areas. The data in American FactFinder come from several censuses and surveys.
Data.gov
Datasets generated by the government on a variety of topics including education, health, science & research, and more.
DataCite
Locate, identify, and cite research data with the leading global provider of DOIs for research data.
Data Discovery at the National Library of Medicine
A platform to provide access to datasets from selected NLM resources.
Data Portals
A Comprehensive List of Open Data Portals from Around the World
Google Dataset Search
Dataset Search lets you find datasets wherever they’re hosted, whether it’s a publisher's site, a digital library, or an author's personal web page.
National Center for Education Statistics
The National Center for Education Statistics (NCES) is the primary federal entity for collecting and analyzing data related to education.
National Library of Medicine Data
Datasets provided by the National Library of Medicine from sources such as PubMed, Gene-Tox, Toxline, and HSDB.
Open ICPSR
An international consortium of more than 750 academic institutions and research organizations, Inter-university Consortium for Political and Social Research (ICPSR) provides leadership and training in data access, curation, and methods of analysis for the social science research community. ICPSR maintains a data archive of more than 250,000 files of research in the social and behavioral sciences. It hosts 21 specialized collections of data in education, aging, criminal justice, substance abuse, terrorism, and other fields.
Pew Research Center
Pew Research Center is a nonpartisan fact tank that informs the public about the issues, attitudes and trends shaping the world. We conduct public opinion polling, demographic research, content analysis and other data-driven social science research.
re3data.org
Registry of Research Data Repsitories
United States Census Bureau
Access data through products and tools including data visualizations, mobile apps, interactive web apps and other software.

Health Datasets

1993-2002 Nationwide Inpatient Sample
The 1993-2002 NIS Supplemental Discharge-Level Files are discharge-level files that provide the NIS data user with both the trend weights and data elements that are consistently defined across data years.
Arizona Health Data
The Bureau of Public Health Statistics collects a variety of health and vital data, and maintains these in several primary databases for public health purposes, and for general public information.
CDC
Data and Statistics on a number of topics including diseases, general health, and population statistics.
ClinicalTrials.gov
ClinicalTrials.gov is a database of privately and publicly funded clinical studies conducted around the world.
dataMED
DataMed is a prototype biomedical data search engine. Its goal is to discover data sets across data repositories or data aggregators.
HealthData.gov
This site is dedicated to making high value health data more accessible to entrepreneurs, researchers, and policy makers in the hopes of better health outcomes for all.
Hospital Compare
Hospital Compare is a consumer-oriented website that provides information on how well hospitals provide recommended care to their patients.
Medicare Data
Data involving Plan Information, Care Comparing, Medigap Data, and more.
Missouri Health Data
exploreMOhealth is designed to help stakeholders assess the health of their communities. This tool allows visitors to explore hyperlocal health data to better understand the factors that can influence health outcomes.
NIH Clinical Center
At the NIH Clinical Center, clinical research participants are active partners in medical discovery. Search the Studies to find relevant information and data for your research question.
NIH Data Sharing Repositories
NIH-supported data repositories that make data accessible for reuse
Veterans Health Administration Hospital Performance Data
The Veterans Health Administration (VHA) has now collaborated with the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) to present information to consumers about the quality and safety of health care in VHA.
World Health Organization
Global Health data
State Health Facts
Various data tools and visualizations on
various health topics. Information is organized by category or US location.

Data Clean up

Colectica
Colectica for Microsoft Excel Standard Edition is a free tool to document your spreadsheet data using the open standard for data documentation.
Galaxy
This site has been available since 2007 for anyone to analyze their data free of charge. The site provides substantial CPU and disk space, making it possible to analyze large datasets.
Nesstar Publisher
Nesstar Publisher is an advanced data management program. It consists of data and metadata conversion and editing tools, enabling the user to prepare these materials for publication to a Nesstar Server. However, it can also be used as a stand-alone tool for the preparation of data and metadata.
Open Refine
Open Refine (previously Google Refine) is a data cleaning software that uses your web browser as an interface. This means it will look like it runs on the internet but all your data remains on your machine and you do not need internet connection to work with it.
Preparing Data for Analysis
Research Nexus talk by Vanessa Pazdernik that provides some helpful information on how to prepare data before analysis.

Data Capture Tools

Qualtrics
Easy to use survey tool with multiple report options. Provided to faculty and staff through ATSU. Contact qualtrics@atsu.edu to get started.
REDCap
REDCap is a secure web application for building and managing online surveys and databases. While REDCap can be used to collect virtually any type of data (including 21 CFR Part 11, FISMA, and HIPAA-compliant environments), it is specifically geared to support online or offline data capture for research studies and operations.