Google launched a new search tool for open data on 5 September. Google Dataset Search (beta) helps find open datasets and data series – by searching data repositories worldwide. The new resource searches both open public data repositories (governments; international organisations) and open research data repositories (universities, research institutions). Full details of the new search tool are in the Google Blog and this video. Dataset Search is developed by Google’s AI research division. For access to licensed, statistical datasets at the EUI, visit the Library’s Data Portal.

The new EUI ResData repository was launched at the Library’s open access roundtable in October 2017 and already hosts twelve substantial EUI research datasets. ResData provides EUI scholars with a sustainable solution for archiving research datasets, and supports the European Union’s mandate that – where possible – research data outputs be openly shared. Open data – a key pillar of open science – refers to the trend among scholars, government agencies and international organisations to share datasets, codebooks and software via the internet.

Authors with an ORCID containing publications can see a summary from ImpactStory in DataCite Profiles, and a direct link will send you to your ImpactStory profile page. DataCite staff, currently at Force16 conference in Portland (Oregon) today released added support for ImpactStory and GitHub. It is now possible to link the GitHub account, the ORCID identifier used by DataCite Profiles. […]

re3data.org a new worldwide registry of research data repositories, has been launched by the German Research Foundation (DFG), the GFZ German Research Centre for Geosciences, the Humboldt-Universität and the Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT). The interface allows data users to locate repositories by discipline and data type. Full details are on the re3data homepage.