Literature, evidence and data access
Archives, data repositories, evidence syntheses and reference tools.
19 resources
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The Biodiversity LibraryTBG projectNew
Over 2,000 reference books, half of them on reptiles and amphibians, lent to nonprofits and researchers on request
Request a reference book on loan, especially for reptiles and amphibians, instead of buying it
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Ask DarwinTBG projectNew
Ask questions of TBG's research library and get answers grounded in it. Access is for named partners, for non-commercial research only
Ask the research library a question directly, if you are a named partner doing non-commercial work
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Biodiversity Heritage Library
Historic natural-history literature
Find the original description of an old species name free, when a paywall blocks the reprint
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BioStor
Article extraction from BHL
Pull a single article out of a scanned volume instead of citing the whole book
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Species New to Science
Daily new-species blog
Skim it daily to catch a new species in your taxon before any database has it
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Conservation Evidence
What-works evidence synthesis
Check whether an intervention has ever been tested before writing it into a proposal
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Dryad
Data repository behind papers
Deposit the data behind your paper, and search it for a dataset you were about to recollect
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figshare
Research file repository
Park figures, posters and negative results somewhere citable rather than losing them entirely
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data.world
Datasets, including IRS 990 extracts
Search for the tabular datasets nobody publishes as a paper, including IRS 990 extracts
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Kaggle
Datasets and notebooks
Borrow a notebook that already solves your analysis rather than starting from a blank script
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Data.gov
US open data
Search federal datasets before requesting anything, because it is often already published
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ScienceBase
USGS data catalog
Find USGS project data, and the metadata that tells you whether it is usable
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Research Rabbit
Literature discovery
Open the app directly when you want to work rather than read about the tool
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ORCID
Researcher identifiers
Register once so your publications follow you between institutions and countries
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Mendeley
Reference management
Manage references free, and use its groups when co-authors sit in different institutions
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Laerd Statistics
Statistics guides
Look up which test your design actually calls for before running anything in SPSS
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OpenEpi
Epidemiological statistics tools
Run sample size and confidence interval calculations in a browser with no license needed
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UN-SPIDER data compilations
Geospatial data source lists
Use its curated source lists to find satellite data for a land change question
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UWE library conservation databases
University library index of subscription literature databases, browsable A to Z and by subject. Useful for working out which database covers a field, even where you have no login
Browse by subject to find which literature database covers your topic