Library guides: Open Resources: Datasets and Databases

Australian Datasets

Access to Australian datasets:

Analysis and Policy Observatory
APO is an open access evidence platform - making public policy research and resources accessible and useable.
Australian Bureau of Statistics (ABS)
Australia's national statistical agency and an official source of independent, reliable information.
Australian Data Archive
The ADA provides a national service for the collection and preservation of digital data relating to social, political and economic affairs.
Research Data Australia
The data discovery service of the Australian Research Data Commons (ARDC) supported by the Australian Government.
Australian Government
Central source of Australian government open data. Anyone can access the anonymised public data published by federal, state and local government agencies.

WikiData
A free and open knowledge base that can be read and edited by both humans and machines.
Google Datasets
A search engine for datasets.
World Health Organization
Search global health topics and themes.
The World Bank - DataBank
DataBank is an analysis and visualisation tool that contains collections of time series data on a variety of topics.
EU Open Data Portal
European datasets.
United States Government Data
US Government's open data, tools and resources to conduct research.

OpenAlex
An open and comprehensive index of scholarly works, citations, authors, and institutions
BMC - Biomed central
BMC is part of Springer Nature. Provides a collection of open access biomedical research journals.
OECD iLibrary
OECD publishes its recommendations, analysis and data on OECD iLibrary to help inform policy makers, researchers and analysts to implement the best possible responses in their countries.
NATLEX
Database of national labour, social security and related human rights legislation.
AustLII
Australia's free-access resource for Australian legal information. A joint facility of the UTS and UNSW Faculties of Law.
PubMed
PubMed is a free resource supporting the search and retrieval of biomedical and life sciences literature. Contains over 34 million citations and abstracts. Does not include full text journal articles but includes links where available.