ISA-explorer stores information in the ISA-Tab metadata format to facilitate dataset discovery for the journal Scientific Data. Published Scientific Data ISA-Tab files can be easily read and explored via this repository. The ISA model records the data’s provenance, how it was generated and where it is located – all prerequisites of publication with Scientific Data. The ISA-Tab metadata file is used to generate the Structured Summary table that appears after the abstract in every Data Descriptor article.