Data Management for the Social Sciences

A list of repositories and databases for open data. The list is arranged alphabetically, by subject.

Registry of Research Data Repositories funded by German research organizations

A compilation of data repositories through a collaboration between the British Library, BioMed Central and the Digital Curation Centre, that aims to capture the growing number of repositories for research data.

It supports research, learning and teaching with freely available, high quality and dependable digital resources in archaeology.

Datorium is a data repository service for the social science and economic science research community.

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International repository.

The Inter-University Consortium for Political and Social Research encourages and welcomes data deposit. Among the services offered, ICPSR describes data fully for Web discovery and protect respondent privacy, ensures long-term data availability, and ICPSR staff are available to answer questions about downloading and using data.

From the Institute for Quantitative Social Sciences at Harvard University, an easily accessible source for depositing research data.

From the Institution for Social and Policy Studies, Yale University.

Merritt is a cost-effective repository service from the University of California Curation Center (UC3) that lets the UC community manage, archive, and share its digital content.

Data Archive.

UK Data Archive acquires, curates and provides access to the UK's largest collection of social and economic data.

SSDA collection consists of surveys, enumerations, public opinion polls, and de-identified administrative records. Topics of studies include political attitudes and behavior; social and economic attitudes and behaviors; studies of health status and health outcomes; families, children, and women; international surveys of occupational and social mobility; the Los Angeles County Social Surveys; California Polls; and, census data for the United States and other countries.

Established in 1977, the UCLA Social Science Data Archive provides a foundation for social science research with faculty support through an entire research project involving original data collection and the reuse of publicly available studies.