Dataset Search is a search engine for datasets. Using a simple keyword search, users can discover datasets hosted in thousands of repositories across the Web.

In addition to making datasets universally accessible and useful, Dataset Search's mission is to:

Foster a data sharing ecosystem that will encourage data publishers to follow best practices for data storage and publication Give scientists a way to show the impact of their work through citation of datasets that they have produced As more dataset repositories use schema.org and similar standards to describe their datasets, the variety and coverage of datasets that users find in Dataset Search will continue to grow.