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Writing a grant
Get templates, curation budgeting, and NIH/NSF compliance guidance.
Share & Manage Data: Introduction & Overview
Sharing data can mean anything from simply putting contact information on your website (so users can request access to your data) to sharing your data with a repository that will make the data available on your behalf.
Empowering Your Research through Data Stewardship
Join the world’s most trusted social science data archive. ICPSR provides the expertise and infrastructure to help you meet funder requirements and amplify the impact of your work.
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Ready to deposit
Instructions, resources, and timeline for data depositing.
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Preparing my data files
Learn about de-identification, metadata, and preferred file formats.
Benefits of Sharing Data with ICPSR
If you have data related to social and behavioral sciences, ICPSR could be the perfect home! Here’s why:
Why ICPSR?
Depositing data with ICPSR ensures secure, long-term preservation and global visibility for your research, supported by expert curation and robust data-sharing compliance. Increase your academic impact and fulfill publisher and funder requirements by leveraging ICPSR’s trusted repository for social science data.
“My favorite instance [working with ICPSR] is being granted permission by ICPSR to use one of your restricted datasets (the US Transgender Survey), which has generated several well-cited research papers.”
~Yana van der Meulen Rodgers, ICPSR depositor and Professor of Labor Studies and Employment Relations at Rutgers