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Data Repositories: Science

This guide contains links to a number of repositories containing data relevant to various disciplines

BYU Repository

ScholarsArchive
ScholarsArchive is Brigham Young University’s institutional repository for the scholarly and creative content produced by the University. ScholarsArchive makes research, publications, data, and journals produced by BYU faculty and students available to a global research audience.

Earth Sciences

Earthdata
NASA's collection of Earth observation data including near-real time data.
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This site provides for searching and visualizing NASA data. Helpful tutorials are included.
DataONE
Data Observation Network for Earth
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This is a search engine that accesses multiple repositories. Its focus is Earth and environmental data.

Oceanography

NCEI
NOAA National Centers for Environmental Information

Biological Sciences

Dryad
DRYAD Digital Repository
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DRYAD is a curated resource that makes the data underlying scientific publications discoverable, freely reusable, and citable. A data processing fee of $120 is charged for publishing data. Access to data is generally free.

Genomics

GenBank
National Institute of Health genetic sequence database
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Users of this repository can search an annotated collection of all publicly available DNA sequences. Instructions for submitting to this repository are also included.
DDBJ
DNA Data Bank of Japan
EMBL-EBI
European Bioinformatics Institute

Find Other Repositories

re3data
Registry of Research Data Repositories
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This registry helps you find data repositories specific to a particular discipline.
OpenDOAR
Directory of Open Access Repositories
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This resource contains a listing of Open Access repositories and their policies.