Subject Guides: Free Online Resources: Data

Search Engines and Large Repositories

Google Dataset Search
Dataset Search is a search engine for datasets. Using a simple keyword search, users can discover datasets hosted in thousands of repositories across the Web.
Federated Research Data Repository Search
Search FRDR to find research datasets originating from researchers affiliated with Canadian institutions. Data deposited to other repositories across Canada can also be found by searching in FRDR.
re3data
Registry of Research Data Repositories (re3data) indexes and provides extensive information about more than 2450 research data repositories.

Check out our Data Guide for more information on data sources

Government Data

Many governments now make many of their data sets available to the public including census and other interesting information. Our municipal, provincial and federal data sources are linked below, for other jurisdictions try searching for the government and open data or check out our Government Information Guide for more help