Data Repository Directories
Looking for data repository for the data from your research?
There are many options available. Use a data repository directory to identify options in your discipline:
Inter-university Consortium for Political and Social Research (ICPSR)
"ICPSR welcomes and encourages deposits of digital data. Depositing data into ICPSR is free. Deposits are made using a secure data deposit form to describe the data collection and upload content. For an overview of ICPSR deposit services for both public-use and restricted-use data, please refer to Depositing Data with ICPSR (pdf). For best practices in preparing data for sharing, refer to ICPSR's Guide to Social Science Data Preparation and Archiving. In addition to the information about depositing data below, we have compiled some frequently asked questions."
ICPSR also maintains a data archive of more than 250,000 files of research in the social and behavioral sciences with over twenty specialized collections of data in education, aging, criminal justice, substance abuse, terrorism, and other fields.
What is in ISU ReD?
- Preprint, postprint, or publisher versions of journal articles and reviews
- Books and book chapters
- Dissertations and theses
- Presentations
- Student capstone projects and independent studies
- School and departmental publications, such as faculty newsletters or annual reports
- Programs from university events
- University records, such as minutes from Academic Senate meetings
