Data and Research

Useful sources for finding datasets, reading research, checking citations, and building evidence-backed school or university work.

Open Data

• Our World in Data - Data-driven explanations of global issues.
• Data Commons - Public data graph and statistics explorer.
• World Bank DataBank - Economic and development datasets.
• UN Data - United Nations statistics database.
• Data.gov - United States open government datasets.
• Eurostat - European statistics and datasets.
• Gapminder - Global development datasets and visual tools.

Research Search

• Semantic Scholar - Scholarly search with citation graphs and paper discovery.
• Google Scholar - Search academic papers, books, patents, and citations.
• OpenAlex - Open catalog of scholarly works, authors, and institutions.
• CORE - Open access research paper aggregator.
• DOAJ - Directory of open access journals.
• Crossref - DOI and publication metadata.

Research Workflow

• Zotero - Reference manager for sources, notes, and bibliographies.
• Unpaywall - Browser tool for locating open access versions of papers.
• ResearchRabbit - Paper discovery and citation network exploration.
• Purdue OWL Research - Research and citation guidance.