Data Resources in the Health Sciences

Beyond storing data, data repositories often provide a means for researchers to share original data with others for consumption or re-use.  Considerations on using data from a repository include:

• cost
• restrictions/licenses
• attribution/citation

Follow the links below to information on clinical data and scientific data, including our selected repositories and portals.

Clinical Data Repositories

Scientific Data Repositories

Data Repository Registries - websites offering directories of data repositories from a wide variety of disciplines, including health sciences:

• DataMed  (bioCADDIE - biomedical and healthCAre Data Discover Index Ecosystem); allows searching across data repositories and aggregators
• Data Repositories Open Access Directory (Simmons College)
• Data Citation Index (Clarivate Analytics) - requires subscription, not available at the UW
• OpenDOAR (University of Nottingham) - search or browse by subject, content type, country, language, software, repository name
• Registry of Open Access Repositories (University of Southampton)
• re3data (Registry of Research Data Repositories) (German Research Foundation) - filter searches by subject, content type, and/or country