About the service

Jisc's equipment data service aggregates a range of university and research facility equipment datasets and enables searches across UK research institutions through one portal.

UK Research and Innovation's terms and conditions of grant for research projects requires “all new equipment purchased over £138,000 to be registered on the equipment data national database”. However the platform is not limited to UKRI-funded research infrastructure assets and we welcome data for any research assets of any value from any organisation.

The service was upgraded in 2025 to meet new challenges and to maximise the value of the data. This upgrade aims to improve the discovery and visibility of research assets, to introduce the ability to cite and track the assets, and to create a market intelligence data resource to enable efficiencies for the sector. The upgrade includes a new service data model and a data management platform that allow users to manage their records, assign DOIs and publish their equipment data.

The service has the following benefits for the UK research community:

• Enhances data visibility and discovery to showcase your assets
• Supports sharing and collaboration
• Provides the ability to assign DOIs for equipment which will enable citation and tracking of assets related to equipment. DOIs for equipment also supports reproducibility
• Help inform investment and procurement decisions by creating a national market intelligence dataset
• Meet funder compliance

Equipment Data was previously run by the University of Southampton with funding from EPSRC, in partnership with Jisc. The service is now operated by Jisc.