Google Dataset Search

Robertson Library provides students with different printing and scanning options

3D Printing - The Library's 3D printing is no longer available at this time, email 3dlibrary@upei.ca for questions.

Scanning

Ask staff for help.
Save to a USB stick or
send to an email address.

Scanning is free.

Group and individual study rooms are available for quietly studying or working on assignments.

Group Study Rooms: 260-261 (in Collaboratory), upstairs: 306, 330, 341-350
Group size: 2-8 people (306 can hold larger groups, ask at the Service Desk)
Time per use: 3-hour block

Individual Study Rooms: 331-336 (yellow rooms)
Time per use: 3-hour block

Research Study Rooms: 320-327
Note: Research rooms are not bookable; please ask at the Service Desk, you will need your UPEI Campus Card to sign out the key
Time per use: 3-hour block

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Most group study rooms are equipped with computer
LCD Panel Displays: 4 group study rooms (346, 347, 349, 350) are equipped with LCD wall-mounted panel displays.
White Boards: most group study rooms are equipped with white boards
Most group rooms will accommodate up to 6 persons
Study rooms are no longer locked, leaving personal material unattended is at the student's own risk
Study rooms are not soundproofed. Groups using these rooms are asked to please close doors and keep conversations at a considerate noise level
Please clean up as you leave - there is no housekeeping service between bookings

Find an appropriate study zone, for yourself or a group, if the study rooms are unavailable.

Google Dataset Search

Across the web, there are millions of datasets about nearly any subject. Dataset Search has indexed almost 25 million of these datasets, giving you a single place to search for datasets and find links to where the data is.

Some other options for finding datasets:

Dimensions - over 11 million datasets indexed, most but not all search functions on this site are free (UPEI does not have a paid subscription)

re3data.org- a global registry of research data repositories, including some that are not free

Data Repositories Open Access Directory

US Govt: data.gov and another one specifically for health data: HealthData.gov

Harvard Dataverse- about 150,000 datasets

The European Union's Eurocentric dataset search page

CESSDA (Consortium of European Social Science Data Archives)

OpenAfrica OpenAfrica is not a government agency but calls itself a grassroots movement to open Africa related datasets

Datamed.org - just biomed/health related datasets

For more help finding a free dataset for your research project, contact your subject librarian.

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