Join us for a lively conversation with Dr. Margaret Levenstein, Director of Inter-university Consortium for Political and Social Research (ICPSR, the world's largest social science data archive) on how the research community is responding to recent changes in data access and culture.

DataLumos is an ICPSR archive for valuable government data resources. ICPSR has a long commitment to safekeeping and disseminating US government and other social science data. Since January 2025, ICPSR’s DataLumos archive has expanded from 103 to over 2,800 datasets to preserve access.

What you'll learn:

• ICPSR’s role in supporting research for faculty, students, research staff, foundations, publications and more 
• Timely topics that meet the research questions being asked today - health, immigration, justice, policy and more 
• Where to find archived and alternative data sources
• Strategies for adapting ongoing projects
• Access to federal data and ICPSR’s unique role with the DataLumos archival infrastructure: curation, discovery, access and more
• What are FAIR data principles and why do they matter? How does ICPSR operationalize these?
• A discussion of AI related to data

Who should attend:
Faculty and graduate students using federal data, librarians, data specialists and anyone interested in research data.

About ICPSR:
ICPSR is an international consortium of 800+ academic and research bodies including Stanford University. ICPSR provides leadership and training in data access, curation, and analytical methods for social science. They are a recipient of a National Medal for Museum and Library Service.