Harvard Dataverse is an online data repository where you can share, preserve, cite, explore, and analyze research data. It's open to all researchers both inside and out of the Harvard community, though Harvard affiliates enjoy extra support and services.
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Find data across research fields, preview metadata, and download files
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Learn more about enhanced support and features for Harvard users.
About Dataverse
Harvard Dataverse provides access to a rich array of datasets to support your research. It offers advanced searching and text mining in over 2,000 dataverses, 75,000 datasets, and 350,000+ files, representing institutions, groups, and individuals at Harvard and beyond.
The Harvard Dataverse repository runs on the open-source web application Dataverse, developed at the Institute for Quantitative Social Science. Dataverse helps make your data available to others, and allows you to replicate others' work more easily.
Researchers, journals, data authors, publishers, data distributors, and affiliated institutions all receive academic credit and web visibility.
Why Create a Personal Dataverse?
- Easy setup
- Display your data on your personal website
- Brand it uniquely as your research program
- Makes your data more discoverable to the research community
- Satisfies data management plans
Terms to Know
- A Dataverse repository is the software installation, which then hosts multiple virtual archives called dataverse collections.
- Each collection contains datasets, and each dataset contains descriptive metadata and data files (including documentation and code that accompany the data).
- As an organizing method, dataverse collections may also contain other sub-collections.