Research Guides: Data Sources: Science

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Physical & Earth Sciences

Data Sources for Physical and Earth Sciences
This guide covers data sources for astronomy & space, climate & weather, environment & ecology, geology & oceanography, and social issues such as human interactions in the environment.

Science: Data & Statistics

Data Citation Index This link opens in a new window
Searches across research data sets contained in subject-specific and institutional data repositories.

Dryad Digital Repository
Dryad a curated general-purpose repository that makes the data underlying scientific publications discoverable, freely reusable, and citable.
EM-DAT: The International Disaster Database
Information on the human impact of disasters, such as the number of people killed, injured or affected, as well as disaster-related economic damage estimates and disaster-specific international aid contributions. From the Centre for Research on the Epidemiology of Disasters (CRED).
National Nuclear Data Center
The National Nuclear Data Center (NNDC) collects, evaluates, and disseminates nuclear physics data for basic nuclear research and for applied nuclear technologies.
National Science Foundation's Science and Engineering Statistics
Publications, data, and analyses about science and engineering resources in the US.
NIST Chemistry WebBook
Provides access to data compiled and distributed by the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) Standard Reference Data Program. Data includes thermochemical, thermophysical, ion energies, etc.
NIST Physical Measurement Laboratory Physical Reference Data
The Physical Measurement Laboratory (PML) develops and disseminates the national standards of length, mass, force and shock, acceleration, time and frequency, electricity, temperature, humidity, pressure and vacuum, liquid and gas flow, and electromagnetic, optical, microwave, acoustic, ultrasonic, and ionizing radiation.
NOAA National Climatic Data Center (NCDC)
NOAA's National Climatic Data Center (NCDC) is the world's largest repository of weather and climate data and information. Data sources are as varied as paleoclimatic samples to handwritten observations to satellite and radar imagery less than an hour old.
Sloan Digital Sky Survey (SDSS)
The Sloan Digital Sky Survey (see www.sdss.org for general information) will map one-quarter of the entire sky and perform a redshift survey of galaxies, quasars and stars.
Smithsonian/NASA Astrophysics Data System
The Astrophysics Data System (ADS) is a NASA-funded project which maintains three bibliographic databases containing more than 4.8 million records in Astronomy and Astrophysics, Physics. Also includes ArXiv e-prints.

WebCSD This link opens in a new window
WebCSD is the web-based interface to the Cambridge Structural Database. It includes chemical, physical, and bibliographic information for small-molecule organic and metal-organic crystal structures.