DataCite is a consortium of national-scale libraries and research organizations committed to increasing access to research data on the internet.

Recently DataCite, BioMed Central and the Digtal Curation Centre has announced an international list of repositories for research data: http://datacite.org/repolist.

Some of the datasets that can be found on the list are:

• European Directory of Marine Environmental Datasets;
• SeaDataNet;
• World Data Centre for Marine Environmental Sciences;
• Chinese Forestry Scientific Data Centre; or
• Global Change Master Directory