The Heard Library provides acess to several sources of social science data.
Through the Heard Library, Vanderbilt is a member of the Inter-university Consortium for Political and Social Research (ICSPR). Established in 1962 at the University of Michigan in Ann Arbor, ICPSR is the world's largest online archive of social science data. In addition to preserving and making the data sets available. ICPSR also offers training in analyzing social science data. For more information, visit the Research Guide for Finding & Using Data from ICPSR.
The Roper Center for Public Opinion is another source of social science data that is provided by the library. Vanderbilt University is a member of the Roper Center therefore has access to the iPOLL database is available for members of the Vanderbilt community. This database offers searching at the question level for public opinion polls. In many cases, you will be able to download the poll and data with a few mouse clicks. To locate other public opinion data sets, you may search the Roper Center's catalog. Support for iPoll can be found here.
Thank you to the following librarians, whose excellent guides provided some of the content here:
Nicole Scholtz
Clark Library, University of Michigan
