Dataverse Search Datasets

Overview

Search the Dataverse repository for research datasets, files, and dataverses. Dataverse is one of the largest open-access research data repositories, hosting datasets from all academic disciplines including social sciences, natural sciences, medicine, and humanities. Returns dataset names, DOIs, descriptions, publication dates, publishers, citations, subjects, authors, and file counts. Supports filtering by type (dataset, file, dataverse) and pagination. Essential for finding research datasets with full metadata and citations.

Status

The most recent probe succeeded. Safe to call from the agent today.

Last probed

1d ago

Last success

1d ago

Last latency

108ms

Schema

JSON Schema the agent (or your API call) must match.

{
  "properties": {
    "per_page": {
      "description": "Number of results per page (default 10)",
      "type": [
        "integer",
        "null"
      ]
    },
    "q": {
      "description": "Search query string for dataset title, description, or keyword (e.g., 'climate change', 'genomics', 'RNA-seq cancer')",
      "type": "string"
    },
    "start": {
      "description": "Result offset for pagination (0-based, e.g., 0, 10, 20)",
      "type": [
        "integer",
        "null"
      ]
    },
    "type": {
      "description": "Filter by type: 'dataset', 'file', or 'dataverse' (default: returns all types)",
      "type": [
        "string",
        "null"
      ]
    }
  },
  "required": [
    "q"
  ],
  "type": "object"
}

Examples (1)

{
  "q": ""
}

Identifiers

Catalog ID

tu_Dataverse_search_datasets

Tool name

Dataverse_search_datasets

Added

2026-04-30 22:47Z

Tags

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