Open Research Information on BigQuery

Sharing the load: Building an open research information collective

A growing and daily updated collection of publicly available and community-curated datasets on Google BigQuery. We are not affiliated with the data providers or with Google.

Featured Collections

Please also check the participating project websites for more information and for many more available datasets.

Crossref

A major DOI registration agency for publisher-provided open metadata. Used in many downstream sources.

SUB Göttingen provides the most recent monthly dump and yearly snapshots. Sesame Open Science gives access to the latest public data dump.

OpenAIRE

A free and open resource that interlinks hundreds of millions of metadata records from over 100k data sources.

Sesame Open Science provides the full OpenAIRE Graph Dataset. InSySPo Campinas offers time-specific versions.

OpenAlex

A free, open, and comprehensive bibliographic database and knowledge graph for scholarly research.

SUB Göttingen provides the Walden release and September 2025 snapshots. InSySPo Campinas offers March and August 2025 snapshots.

Get Started

1. Browse Collections — Explore the available datasets from our contributing projects
2. Access BigQuery — Use your Google account to access the BigQuery Console
3. Start Querying — Reference our datasets in your SQL queries using project.dataset.table syntax
4. Contribute — Want to share your data? Check our contributing guide