Social Sciences Librarian
Social Sciences Librarian
Key Resources
These key resources should be the first choices for finding social science data and datasets. See the tabs on the left side for additional important resources.
- ICPSR: Inter-University Consortium for Political and Social ResearchICPSR is an international consortium of academic institutions and research organizations, which provides data access, curation, and methods of analysis for the social science research community. ICPSR web portal provides access to a data archive of thousands of files of research in the social sciences. Searchable content includes specialized collections of data in education, aging, criminal justice, substance abuse, terrorism, and other fields.
- Roper Center For Public Opinion Research (iPoll)iPoll is a comprehensive, up-to-date and very large archive of US public opinion information. It is organized at the question level, and has the tools to sift through nearly a half million questions asked on national public opinion surveys. It also includes on demand access to the full datasets required to conduct bivariate and multivariate analyses on archived surveys.
- General Social Survey (GSS)GSS is a publicly available national resource, and includes data on societal change in American society.
- Google DatasetsGoogle Dataset is a specialized metadata search engine that can discover local dataset files and resources.
ASU Library Data Management Resources
- Research Data ManagementThe ASU Library provides support for data management planning and sharing, open access and open data publishing, copyright and rights management which foster reproducible and responsible research.
- Researcher SupportGet connected with experts and resources from the ASU Library to assist you with all of your research and publishing needs. Researcher Support offers guidance across the research lifecycle, everything from planning to data storage, in an effort to maximize the quality, productivity and accessibility of ASU research.
