- Digital Commons Network Social and Behavioral Sciences Commons: network.bepress.com/social-and-behavioral-sciences/
- This enormous network of studies provides you access to global research and data on any social topics you could imagine.
- University of Michigan Inter-University Consortium for Political and Social Research: http://www.icpsr.umich.edu/
- The University of Michigan Inter-University Consortium for Political and Social Research (ICPSR) is a data archive of more than 250,000 files of research in the social and behavioral sciences. As a leader in data stewardship, ICPSR provides extensive data resources, specializing in political engagement, policy, education, criminal justice, substance abuse, terrorism, and more.
- Harvard Dataverse https://dataverse.harvard.edu/
- The Harvard Dataverse is an online data repository where you can share, cite, explore, and analyze research data. Open to all researchers, this data archive has over 75,000 data sets representing institutions, groups, and individuals. Some subjects include, but not limited to, “Arts and Humanities”, “Earth and Environmental Sciences”, “Economics”, “Law”, “Social Science”, and more.
- Data.gov https://www.data.gov/
- Data.gov is a US government website that has the mission to improve public access to high quality and machine-readable datasets. Created by the Executive Branch of the Federal Government, Data.gov’s topics include “Agriculture”, “Climate”, “Ecosystem”, “Education”, “Energy”, “Finance”, “Federal and Domestic Governments”, “Public Safety”, and more.
- Time-Sharing Experiments for the Social Sciences: http://tessexperiments.org/previousstudies.html
- Time-Sharing Experiments for the Social Sciences (TESS) is a platform that provides social scientists with a new opportunity to present original data discoveries. TESS provides crucial data ranging from 2003 to 2017, with topics including partisan identification, public perceptions, humanitarian intervention, inequality, collective action, media bias, immigration policy, gun control, government transparency, emotional reactions, and more.
- Wayback Machine Internet Archive: https://web.archive.org/
- The Wayback Machine is an archive building a collection of internet sites, resources, and other cultural artifacts for public access. With over 401 billion websites, such as the New York Times, Huffington Post, Washington Post, and WhiteHouse.gov, this internet archive provides a central location to find websites easily and effectively.
- Data USA: https://datausa.io/
- DataUSA was created for the public to have a central source to better understand and visualize the critical issues facing the United States. Some areas covered include jobs, skills, degrees, and education across all industries, cities, and states. Ultimately, this would provide US citizens with pristine data to aid in informed decision making amongst executives, policymakers, and citizens.
- Other resources from this article on “The free big data sources everyone should know” https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/20141210080103-64875646-the-free-big-data-sources-everyone-should-know/?trk=tod-posts-post1-ptlt
- In an article published on LinkedIn called “The Free ‘Big Data’ Sources Everyone Should Know”, it lists other data archives that are useful to review when conducting research, including the US Census Bureau, the European Union Open Data Portal, the CIA World Factbook, Healthdata.gov, National Climatic Data Center, and more.