ICPSR - Inter-university Consortium for Political and Social Research

ICPSR is an organization of member institutions working together to acquire and preserve social science data, provide open and equitable access to these data, and promote effective data use. ICPSR's archive of datasets is one of the largest in the world.

Students, faculty and staff of the University of Georgia may download datasets directly from the ICPSR archive. New users must first create a MyData account from a workstation with a University of Georgia campus IP address (Athens campus only). Users with a MyData account may then download ICPSR datasets from any campus IP address as well as off-campus IP addresses.

To create your MyData account go to ICPSR. In upper right open MyData Options menu and select Edit Account Settings. Then scroll down and click on the Create Account button. Follow the subsequent steps.

NOTE: Users must continue to log on to their ICPSR MyData account once every six months from a UGA campus IP address to revalidate their MyData account for off-campus downloads. Users who are unable to log on before leaving campus for an extended period of time may contact ICPSR User Support at netmail@icpsr.umich.edu or John Prechtel, the Official Representative at UGA. ICPSR staff will verify the user's status with the OR and validate the account for off-campus downloading.

Search the ICPSR archive

List of ICPSR CD-ROMS at University of Georgia Libraries

ICPSR studies available on Data Services' server

For more information, please contact:

John Prechtel
Data Librarian
706-542-3472 or prechtel@uga.edu