National Geoscience Data Centre

The National Geoscience Data Centre (NGDC) collects and preserves geoscientific data and information, making them available to a wide range of users and communities. NGDC is recognised as the NERC Environmental Data Centre for geoscience data.

If you have any questions please contact ngdc@bgs.ac.uk.

Deposit data

Depositing data with NGDC Deposit data with NGDC

Guidelines for depositing data with NGDC.

Notify NGDC of intention to drill Notify NGDC of intention to drill

A Notification of Intention to Drill form must be filled out if you are about to drill a borehole or sink a well.

Data © iStockphoto Cited data

Credit is gained by dataset creators, and awareness is improved, by citing datasets in the same manner as journal articles.

Data management Data management

We maintain a wealth of data, information and other materials gathered throughout the history of the organisation.

Data generated by NERC funded grants Information for funded NERC researchers

NERC-funded researchers can find out further information about depositing data with the NGDC.

NERC Data Policy NERC data policy

NERC has a well-established data policy that sets the ground rules that all those funded by NERC must follow in managing the data that they collect.

Access data

Access data Search deposited data

Discover data that has been ingested by the National Geoscience Data Centre (NGDC) and the National Geological Repository (NGR).

Data collections Data collections

Search, view and download many of BGS's most popular databases and vocabularies.

Geology of Britain viewer OpenGeoscience

Access some of the NGDC data collections on the BGS data webpages.

Open Government Licence Open Government Licence

The Open Government Licence (OGL) is a simple set of terms and conditions that facilitates the re-use of a wide range of public sector information free of charge.