"ICPSR" stands for Inter-University Consortium for Political and Social Research. The consortium consists of over 700 research institutions 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. Please remember that if you want to take advantage of the full benefits of ICPSR, you should access it through the TTU library website rather than simply going to the ICPSR website. To access ICPSR through the library website, click the "Databases A-Z" link on the library's homepage and when the database search screen appears, type "icpsr" in the search box and click search.
