Library: Finding and reusing research datasets: Engineering Sciences

Finding published research datasets for the engineering sciences research

Many of the engineering sciences are in the early stages of embedding a data sharing culture and, beyond the disciplines shown on this page, there are only a limited number of discipline-specific data archives for engineering data. Therefore, if datasets have been published they tend to be within the interdisciplinary data archives or published as supplemental material to journal articles. If you are looking for code-based data please see the 'code-based data' page in this guide.

The list of databases provided in this guide are those that are recommended by major UK funding bodies or by journal publishers. You can search re3data or FAIRSharing for a full list of research data archives publishing engineering datasets.

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Multidisciplinary data

IEEE DataPort This link opens in a new window
Access over 5,500 datasets in machine learning, artificial intelligence, image and signal processing, and many other areas of computing and engineering.
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Marine sciences data

British Oceanographic Data Centre
NERC data centre for looking after and distributing data concerning the marine environment.
Marine Geoscience Digital Library
Digital data repository and metadata catalogue for marine geoscience data from the seafloor and subseafloor environment.
Australian Ocean Data Network
Data archive collected by the Australian marine research community that is searchable via map interface and metadata catalogue.
SEANOE
SEA scieNtific Open data Edition (SEANOE) publishes data in the field of marine sciences.

Earth and Environmental sciences data

National Environmental Research Council Data Centres (NERC)
Data catalogue service for the NERC data centres.
British Ecological Survey
Over 400 datasets of environmental monitoring data, digital database and physical collections (e.g. borehole core, rocks, minerals and fossils).
World Data Centre for Climate at DKRZ (WDCC)
Data archive for climate research.
The Knowledge Network for Biocomplexity
International repository to support ecological, environmental and earth science research.
EarthChem
Community-driven service for the preservation, discovery, access and visualisation of geochemical, geochronological and petrological data.
Environmental Data Initiative Repository
Data from studies on ecological processes that play out on timescales spanning decades to centuries.
NOAA National Centres for Environmental Information (NOAA)
Data repository for paleoclimatology data derived from natural resources such as tree rings, ice cores, corals and ocean and lake sediments. Formerly the National Climactic Data Centre (NCDC).
PANGAEA
Data archive for georeferenced data from earth system research.
Australian Antarctic Data Centre (AADC)
Data management and data sharing platform for Australia's Antarctic Science Program.

Materials science data

Materials Cloud
Data archive for computational materials research.
Nanomaterial resources
Collection of resources, including datasets and databases, related to nanotechnology.
NoMaD Repository
Ab initio electronic-structure data from density-functional theory and methods.