Resources for Psychology Research

Data Sets:

Open Source:

•  American Psychological Association (APA) DataSets and Repositories
•  Consortium of European Social Science Data Archives (CESSDA)
  • Houses tens of thousands of European Social Science studies and data collections
•  Data.World Psychology datasets
  • Open data repository with capabilities to be read by AI
•  FigShare Data Repository
  • Open data repository where users can share data and research outputs in a citable way
•  Forum on Child and Family Statistics
•  Harvard Dataverse
  • Data repository for all research done at at the Institute for Quantitative Social Science
•  Irish Social Science Data Archive (ISSDA)
  • Ireland's leading data repository specializing in the social sciences, based at the UCD Dublin library
•  National Archive of Computerized Data on Aging (NACDA)
•  National Archive of Criminal Justice Data (NACJD)
•  National Center for Education Statistics(NCES)
•  National Center for Health Statistics (NCHS)
•  National Data Archive on Child Abuse and Neglect (NDACAN)
•  National Institute of Child Health and Human Development Datasets and Research Resources
•  Neuroscience Information Framework (NIF)
  • Collection of web-based data, resources, and tools for researching neuroscience
•  Odum UNC Institute for Research Data Archive
  • University of North Carolina's data repository for social and health sciences
•  Open Neuro
  • Data from MRI, PET, MEG, EEG, and iEEG scans
•  OSF Directory of free, open psychological datasets
  •  Link will redirect you to a spreadsheet with a compilation of the organization’s findings 
•  Research Data Center (RDC) at ZPID
  •  German Data Archive with a focus on psychology
•  Re3Data
  •  Global registry of research data repositories
•  Roper Center Archive
  •  20,000+ datasets from pubic opinion surveys dating back to the 1930s.
•  Stanford Libraries Social Science Data Collection
•  Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration (SAMHSA) Data Archive
•  US Census Bureau Data
•  US Government Datasets
  • The US Government's open data site in accordance with the Open Data Government Act
•  University of Chicago General Social Survey (GSS)
  • The GSS is a national survey of U.S. adults conducted since 1972 looking to explain trends, attitudes, and behaviors in American society

Data Accessible with OSU credentials:

• Inter-University Consortium for Political and Social Research (ICPSR)
  • International Consortium of 810+ academic institutions and research organizations which houses a data archive of over 350,000+ files related to political and social research