Research Guides: Resources for Clinicians in Practice: Freely Available Datasets

Datasets

Why Use Google Dataset Search

Google's Dataset Search is a search engine that allows users to search for datasets stored across the web. It indexes a wide range of datasets from various sources, including academic institutions, government agencies, and data repositories. It offers advanced search options to filter datasets by different criteria such as data format, license type, and update frequency.

NLM Dataset Catalog
A single catalog that searches multiple data repositories for biomedical research datasets
Center for Clinical Observational Investigations (CCOI) Dataset Profiles
Dataset Profiles highlight, summarize and aggregate information about and within a dataset. Find overviews, aggregated basic statistics, and counts of clinical concepts

CDC Datasets (Prior to 1.28.2025)
An archive of all CDC datasets uploaded to https://data.cdc.gov/browse before January 28th, 2025. Excludes corrupt datasets and data not publicly accessible.
Census Reporter: Making Census Data Easy to Use
An independent project to make data from the American Community Survey (ACS) easier to use. It is unaffiliated with the U.S. Census Bureau.
Extracted Data Contributions
Medicine, Health, and Life Sciences available from the Harvard Dataverse
ICPSR
Consortium of academic and research institutions that maintain a data archive of more than 350,000 files of research in the social and behavioral sciences.