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Historical Documents

ICPSR's Web site through the years

1997	2002	2006	2011

Historical Files

Bryan Beecher's blog piece on storage and migration strategies tells the story of the move away from magnetic tape.

Tributes to Erik Austin and Hank Heitowit from the 2006-2007 annual report on the occasion of their retirement.

The New York Times obituary of Warren Miller, Feb. 3, 1999.

Remembrances of Warren Miller after his death.

Report of the ICPSR Review Committee, June 1989 (the Blalock Report).

A commissioned paper by Jerome Clubb, Erik Austin, Carolyn Geda, and Michael Traugott, contained in the 1985 book Sharing Research Data, lays out the case for data sharing in the social sciences (55 pages).

This 1981 article in the Review of Public Data Use journal by Janet Vavra gives a snapshot of the consortium's activities in the early 1980s.

This 1971 letter to officials at Union College is an example of the efforts to attract new members to the consortium.

Article by Philip E. Converse, one of ICPSR's founders, in the Public Opinion Quarterly journal from 1964 titled "A Network of Data Archives for the Behavioral Sciences" describing the creation of ICPSR.

A 1963 article in the journal American Behavioral Scientist by Warren Miller reporting the activities of ICPSR in its first year.

A summary of Summer Program activities from 1963-1964 annual report.

A grant application to the Ford Foundation from March 1963 that helped launch ICPSR.

ICPSR's first annual report. (View all annual reports)

An August 1962 letter from ICPSR founder Warren Miller to Rensis Likert, director of the Institute for Social Research, describing the establishment of the consortium.