Accessible Databases
Interesting, searchable databases developed by The Washington Post
Census & Demographics, Health & Safety, Real Estate & Business, Science & Environment, Sports,
Education, Transportation & Development, Government & Politics:
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-srv/metro/data/datapost.html
Free Publicly-Accessible Databases from the UC Library in Santa Barbara
Catalogs, Journals, Scientific Research Databases, Books, Subjects / Course Guides, Government
Documents, Trademarks / Copyrights, Dictionaries:
http://www.library.ucsb.edu/search-research/free-databases
Dead link:
http://bitly.com/bundles/hmason/1
Publicly available large data sets for database research
Wikileaks, Canadian census, weather data, US census, Amazon, Google Books, Wikipedia, web crawling
data, Twitter data:
http://lemire.me/blog/archives/2012/03/27/
National Center for Biotechnology Information
bio samples, genes, medicine, homology, proteins, taxonomy, RNA, DNA, etc:
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/guide/all/
Everything from A to Z:
An online list of databases from Wikipedia
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_online_databases
Marine Databases
Paths, geological data, physical, chemical, drilling, etc:
Issues with this link
http://www.un.org/depts/los/clcs_new/sources/data_portals_holders_websites.pdf (Marine science)
Selected Public Access Indexes and Databases
Many useful bibliographic databases that are available for use without subscription or institutional
affiliation:
http://andromeda.rutgers.edu/~natalieb/pub.htm
The World Bank
The World Bank's Open Data initiative is intended to provide all users with access to World Bank data,
according to the Open Data Terms of Use. The data catalog is a listing of available World Bank datasets,
including databases, pre-formatted tables, reports, and other resources:
http://datacatalog.worldbank.org/
Safer Products.Gov
Report your unsafe product on SaferProducts.gov. Tell CPSC. Then others will know:
http://www.saferproducts.gov/Default.aspx
Greenhouse Gas Protocol
This list of available third party databases assists users in collecting data for product life cycle and
corporate value chain (scope 3) GHG inventories:
http://www.ghgprotocol.org/Third-Party-Databases
Amazon Web Services
Public Data Sets on AWS provides a centralized repository of public data sets that can be seamlessly
integrated into AWS cloud-based applications:
http://aws.amazon.com/publicdatasets/
Selected Public Access Indexes and Databases
List of online databases
http://www.ask.com/wiki/List_of_online_databases
EPA (Environmental Protection Agency)
Alphabetical List of Databases and Software
http://www.epa.gov/epahome/abcdata.htm
Blackbook Online
SEARCH EXAMPLES: Los Angeles, CA or Maricopa County courts or Florida criminal or Texas arrests NOT
John Smith:
http://www.blackbookonline.info/
Indiana Department of Education
IDOE Data:
http://www.doe.in.gov/idoe/idoe-data
UCI Machine Learning Repository
Center for Machine Learning and Intelligent Systems:
http://archive.ics.uci.edu/ml/datasets.html?format=&task=&att=&area=&numAtt=&numIns=&type=&s
ort=instUp&view=table
Google.com
Public Data:
http://www.google.com/publicdata/directory
Get Dealt Event Database
Global Database of Events, Language & Tone
http://gdelt.utdallas.edu/
Data.gov
A series of data sets/points.
http://data.gov