Science Data Sources

Canada – Data Sources

• Canadian National Committee for CODATA. CODATA is the Committee on Data for Science and Technology of the International Council for Science (ICSU).
• Canadian Hospitals Injury Reporting & Prevention Programs
• Statistics Canada: Index of downloadable Stats Canada publications arranged by subject and catalogue number.
• Surveillance – Public Health Agency of Canada
• ODESI
• OPHID The Ontario Population Health Index of Databases (OPHID) is an index of a wide variety of quantitative information sources for and about Ontario that reflect both the state of the health of its populations and possible explanatory variables.

York University Data Sources

Subject Guides to Sources of Data and Statistics

Multidisciplinary

• Biodiversity Heritage Library
• DOE Data Explorer
• The DOE Data Explorer (DDE) is an information tool which includes a database of citations prepared by the Office of Scientific and Technical Information (OSTI) based on the information found at various data-hosting Web sites. The DOE Data Explorer can be used to find collections of scientific research data, such as computer simulations, figures and plots, interactive maps, multimedia, numeric files, and scientific images. It is intended to be particularly useful to students, the public, and to researchers who are new to a field or looking for experimental or observational data outside their normal field of expertise.
• Data.gov
• Global Biodiversity Information Facility
• ICPSR
• WorldWideScience.org WorldWideScience.org is the prototype for a global science gateway connecting users to national and international scientific databases. WorldWideScience.org accelerates scientific discovery and progress by providing one-stop searching of global science sources.
• UNdata is a searchable database of 60 years’ worth of data from the Statistics Division of the United Nations’ Department of Economic and Social Affairs.

Chemistry & Biochemistry

• Biological Magnetic Resonance Data (BioMagRes) Bank
• Crystallography Open Database
  
• Institute of Genomics Research Database
• International Nucleotide Sequence Database
  
• NCBI Entrez Portal for all NCBI Databases
• Spectral Data
  

Environmental Science

• British Library – Environmental Science datasets
• Census of Marine Life
• Commission for Environmental Cooperation (CEC) Databases
  
• EPA (Databases & Software)
  
• National Atmospheric Deposition Program (NADP)
• NOAA Environmental Services Data Directory
• Toxic Release Inventory

Earth Science & Geography

• GeoData: US Maps & Data
  
• NASA Earth Observatory (Data & Images)
• Scripps Institution of Oceanography Digital Library Project
• World Data Center System: WDCS holdings include a wide range of solar, geophysical, environmental, and human dimensions data from 52 centers in 12 countries. These data cover timescales ranging from seconds to millennia and they provide baseline information for research in many International Council for Science (ICSU) disciplines, especially for monitoring changes in the geosphere and biosphere.
  

Health Data & Statistics

• Cancer Statistics (From National Cancer Institute)
• • Cancer Data Sources (US)
    
• CDC: US Centre for Disease Control (CDC) & Prevention
• Global Health Atlas: World Health Organization (WHO) brings together standardized data and statistics for infectious diseases at country, regional, and global levels
• Health Data Tools & Statistics (Collaboration of U.S. Govt. Agencies, Public Health Organizations & Health Sci. Libraries)
• International Cancer Data Sources