"ICPSR" stands for Inter-University Consortium for Poltical and Social Research. The consortium consists of over 700 research intitutions that deposit their social science data with ICPSR for use by members. Texas Tech University is a member of the consortium, enabling faculty and students to have access to hundreds of thousands of data files. Faculty use the data for teaching to promote quantitative literacy, and students use it to write papers or to conduct secondary analysis. Researchers use it as a place to disseminate and preserve their data, and use it in grant proposals. ICPSR also provides complete data management and curation services, including help with data management plans, management of sensitive and restricted use data, and security plan reviews. Open ICPSR provides a place for researchers to deposit their data to comply with funder mandates and make their data available to the public.
