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OUR CATALOGUE CONTAINS OVER 6,000 DATA COLLECTIONS

Our data catalogue can be searched and browsed through Discover on the UK Data Service website

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LATEST DATA

For new releases available through the data catalogue: Discover

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OUR CATALOGUES - LOOKING FOR OUR DATA COLLECTIONS?

Discover
use UK Data Service Discover to search and browse our data collections covering an extensive range of key economic and social data, both quantitative and qualitative

OUR CATALOGUES - LOOKING FOR ENVIRONMENTAL DATA?

Relu Knowledge Portal
brings together data, research outputs and publications produced by all Rural Economy and Land Use (Relu) research projects and also provides direct links to access data and outputs

OUR CATALOGUES - LOOKING FOR DATA FROM ESRC GRANTS?

UK Data Service ReShare
enables us to archive a wide range of research data from projects funded by ESRC, such as interview collections, small-scale surveys and psychology experiments

OUR CATALOGUES - LOOKING FOR EUROPEAN DATA?

CESSDA Catalogue
provides a single interface to data and variables from a selection of data collections from social science data archives across Europe. Data may be searched or browsed and can be viewed in nine languages

ONLINE DATA BROWSING

We provide tools to help you browse some of our data online without the use of specialist software
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INTERNATIONAL DATA

We work with a network of data archives across the world to help you obtain international data
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UK Data Archive

The UK's largest collection of digital research data in the social sciences and humanities