LibGuides: Research Data Management: Sourcing Research Data

Humanities Networked Infrastructure (HuNI)

Humanities Networked Infrastructure (HuNI)
HuNI combines data from many Australian cultural websites into the biggest humanities and creative arts database ever assembled in Australia. HuNI data covers all disciplines and brings together information about the people, works, events, organisations and places that make up the country's rich cultural landscape.

Licenced Datasets

Western Sydney University has signed agreements with the Australian Bureau of Statistics (ABS) that entitle our researchers to apply free of charge access to the following confidential datasets:

HILDA, LSAC, LSIC and BNLA Survey Datasets
TableBuilder and Microdata
LDC Data

For more information about accessing these datasets, visit the Library website.

You may also be interested in the University Library guide to Australian Bureau of Statistics Confidentialised Unit Record File (CURF) and TableBuilder. CURFs contain the most detailed statistical information available from the ABS and are for researchers and analysts who wish to run their own statistical queries on the data using software packages such as SAS or SPSS.

Statistics

Visit the University Library guide to Statistics for additional resources.

Open Data Resources

The following list provides a small selection of sources for open data. The data directories listed in the box to the right side of this page offer additional lists of data repositories, which may be useful in your field of research.

Data Directories

Open Access Directory
The Open Access Directory (OAD) is a compendium of simple factual lists about open access (OA) to science and scholarship, maintained by the OA community at large. This page provides a list of repositories and databases for open data.
re3data.org
re3data.org (Registry of Research Data Repositories) is a global registry of research data repositories that covers research data repositories from different academic disciplines. It presents repositories for the permanent storage and access of data sets to researchers, funding bodies, publishers and scholarly institutions. re3data.org promotes a culture of sharing, increased access and better visibility of research data.
Registry of Open Data on AWS [Amazon Web Services]
This registry exists to help people discover and share datasets that are available via AWS (provides usage examples for all datasets listed in the Registry of Open Data on AWS).