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General Social Survey (GSS)

guide to accessing and using the General Social Survey data and related data and literature

Bibliography of GSS data-related literature

​​​The GSS Bibliography contains more than 25,000 articles, chapters, books, and presentations known to have used GSS data.

Search by entering keywords or subject terms.  Filter by Type, Year and ISSP (cross-national survey module).

  • Type: Book, book section, conference paper, journal article, Misc, Reports, Thesis
  • Year: No date, in press, forthcoming,
  • ISSP: No or Yes.

Caution:  The GSS Bibliography is not an exhaustive collection and the contents may not be frequently updated.  The GSS Bibliography is a useful starting point and can provided good leads for additional research.

Because the GSS survey data is also deposited at ICPSR, also search for GSS data-related publications on the ICPSR website.

If you have written a report, article, chapter, thesis, dissertation, or book using GSS data, you can notify the GSS (gss@norc.org).

Finding Data Tools and Tips

Finding data tools

Library catalogs, research guides and databases

  • Search for relevant Temple Library Research Guides or at LibGuides Community.  Guides for a specific topic or issue or survey can also be searched using Google or other search engine and adding "Login to Libapps" OR "libguide" to the search term and optionally limiting site to .edu.
  • Use  Temple Libraries'  A to Z list of databases to search for data related databases.

Searching is by keywords.  The subject descriptor appears to have a small number of biological and medical terms.

How to search on the Web of Science and save results and create alerts.

Training portal, training video library, and Data Citation Index video

The first link is to the 2022 ProQuest Statistical Abstract of the U.S. 2022 Online Edition.

Search engines

Google can be used to search by adding "statistics" "database" or "data set"  or data to the search terms. Other useful search engine websites include:

Data Paper and Data Journals

"A data paper is a peer reviewed document describing a dataset, published in a peer reviewed journal." Global Biodiversity Information Facility

Where to find data papers and journals

Related Guides

Search all Temple library research guides.

Find a subject guide relevant to your topic or issue to get recommended databases and other sources to search for data and scholarly books, articles and empirical research.