Find or collect data

Depending on your project, your research might entail collecting the data yourself or finding third-party data for reuse. Here are a few starting places to search for data.

Concordia resources

• Statistics & data

Disciplinary data repositories

• re3data: Registry of research data repositories across many disciplines
• Data repositories: Simple listing of data repositories by subject category

Other data sources

• Data.gov.uk: U.K. government open data
• Data.gov: U.S. government open data
• European Data Portal: Open data by EU institutions and bodies
• Lunaris: Canadian datasets from over 100 academic, government, and research repositories. Bilingual interface providing keyword and map-based searching.
• Google Dataset Search: Searches all data freely available on the web that has been tagged using a standardized vocabulary from Schema.org

Licences or terms of use may be attached to publically available data. Look for this information in the repository where the data was found or in a codebook.

Furthermore, the use of certain data may require you to enter into an agreement, such as a Data Use Agreement, Non-Disclosure Agreement, Confidentiality Agreement, Licensing Agreement, etc.

For more information on these types of agreements, please contact Concordia's Partnership and Innovation Team.

What is a codebook? (ICPSR, University of Michigan)