Open Access Educational Resources Guide

This site is Canada’s federal Open Government portal. Open federal datasets can be found using the search engine. Provincial and municipal open government projects can easily be found using this page.

Data for the City of Toronto covering infrastructure, environment, public safety, transportation and other areas, all available from the municipal government under an open license.

Data.gov is the central portal for US government open data. Over 150,000 datasets are searchable, and can be browsed by topic or agency.

The centre for the UK’s open government data. Search over 22,000 published datasets. Includes map-based search and government organization tree chart (organogram).

Over 8,000 searchable datasets from the European Union. Data can be browsed by subject or visualized using applications.

A search engine for UN statistical databases, this tool searches 34 databases with over 60 million records.

Archiving Your Research Data

Want to store your research data in a secure repository on a Canadian server? Check out the Toronto Metropolitan University Dataverse from Scholars Portal! For help using this resource check out the Dataverse Guide or request a consultation with the Map and Data Lab.

US Census Bureau data can be found here. Includes links to many tools which use or visualize census data.

A US government site "dedicated to making high value health data more accessible" (homepage). Over 1900 datasets searchable by tags, format, author, etc.

A collection of application program interfaces for New York Times data. Includes searches for articles, book reviews, political information (campaign finance, congressional votes), movie reviews and more.