Datasets and Databases
Discover and search datasets and databases that cover a range of research disciplines.
Below are a selection of catalogues and data sources that you might find useful for your research. If you find a catalogue or data source that is not listed, please share it with us:
The Library provides access to subscriptions for databases that may provide data useful for your research.
The Australian Research Data Commons (ARDC) provides a data discovery service, which helps you find, access and reuse data for your research. RDA is registry of data from over a hundred Australian research organisations, government agencies, and cultural institutions.
The AGDC is a searchable directory of open and restricted data assets held by participating government agencies. It has been developed by the Office of the National Data Commisioner (ONDC) and is fully integrated into the Dataplace platform. Please contact Dataplace at La Trobe if you would like help with requesting access to restricted data.
La Trobe researchers now have access to the BioGrid federated national data linkage platform and databases to enable the sharing of real-time hospital and clinic-based health and medical data for research.
La Trobe has signed a non-member Data and Research Collaboration Agreement for a subscription to BioGrid Australia Limited, which provides access to de-identified health data from a broad range of studies. There is also a tool that allows you to identify which databases have individuals in common.
To access BioGrid data, researchers should first identify the datasets in which which they wish to access and apply for La Trobe Human Ethics approval. Following ethics approval, they should complete the BioGrid data access approval process through the BioGrid website. Researchers with be required to pay a fee for each project that requires access, to assist with the maintenance of La Trobe’s subscription.
HuNI combines data from many Australian cultural websites into the biggest humanities and creative arts database ever assembled in Australia. HuNI data covers all disciplines and brings together information about the people, works, events, organisations, and places that make up the country's rich cultural landscape.
HuNI allows you to search and browse data, build your own private or public virtual collections, view collections built by other HuNI users, make new links between records and follow existing trails, and export, publish and share your findings.
The Australian Research Data Commons (ARDC) supports twenty-five research platforms, virtual laboratories, research environments and science gateways. These provide access to rich, domain-oriented, online environments that bring together data, models and tools for domain-oriented analysis and workflows.
The APO is an open access, evidence platform, which makes policy research and resources accessible to researchers. APO collections bring together materials on broad or focused topics, regions, projects, organisation archives, etc.
The Prosecution Project is a research collaboration that collects and analyses historical resources about the history of criminal trial in Australia. The project database includes material from courts, police and prison records across Australia. Searches can be conducted for any case in which a trial was listed before 1943.
The ALA is a collaborative, national project that aggregates biodiversity data from multiple sources and makes it freely available and usable online.