It is increasingly common to make research data openly available. This web-page provides you with pointers on how to find and re-use open data for research or for your master's thesis.
Research data is made available through various research data archives, wich increases the possibilities for reuse and re-distribution.
When planning a research project, or in writing your master's thesis, check to see if there is openly available research data wich you can reuse. Is there data that you can use alongside your own data? Perhaps you can base your master's thesis exclusively on previously gathered information?
Surveybanken (the Survey Bank)
Provides access to over 3 000 surveys and 750 000 questions carried out in Norway from 1957 until now.
Access for all.
Microdata.no
Provides access to registry data from Statistics Norway (SSB) for staff and master's students.
Norwegian datasets
Search engines for research data
Search enginges wich covers multiple data archives
- Google Dataset Search
- DataCite (harvests metadata from among others our own archive, INN Open Research Data)
- Mendeley Data
For search tips and more information about the different search engines, see tutorial videos below.
Video tutorials
GoogleDataSet Search
DataCite Commons
Mendeley Data
Video in the making.
Citing data sets
When using data sets from other scientists in your research, citing and referencing must be performed, just as when using other sources.
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