Research Guides: ICPSR: Deposit Data

Deposit your research data to ICPSR

Preserving and disseminating research data is important to the future of scholarship. ICPSR encourages researchers to deposit their digital data and offers curation and preservation services that increase research impact and help meet funder data sharing requirements.

There are multiple free options to deposit data at ICPSR. Depending on the nature of the data, ICPSR can make it freely available to the public, to ICPSR member institutions, or to researchers who are granted restricted-access use through either secure download, or virtual or in-person secure data enclaves. See the FAQs for Depositing Data for more details.

Depositing Data with ICPSR
Decision tree and overview of ICPSR deposit services for both public-use and restricted-use data.

ICPSR Guide to Social Science Data Preparation and Archiving
ICPSR's detailed Guide to Social Science Data Preparation and Archiving walks researchers through the process of preparing their data files and documentation for deposit.

openICPSR
openICPSR is ICPSR's free, self-archiving repository for social, behavioral, and health sciences research data. openICPSR is well-suited for depositing replication data sets (raw data associated with a journal article, provided so that other researchers can attempt to replicate the findings). Data in openICPSR is not quality checked or curated.