Access to ICPSR data in Switzerland:
The ICPSR, Inter-university Consortium for Political and Social Research, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, is one of the oldest and certainly the world’s most important social science data archive. It ensures access to American datasets as well as the most important foreign datasets, i.e. the Eurobarometer studies of the EU.
The funding of the ICPSR is assured by a system of institutional members, most of which are universities and other educational institutions.
Each member institution has an official ICPSR representative who is in charge of adressing people’s requests for datasets or support during their quest for relevant data.
The ICPSR has also introduced an authentication system that grants direct data access to anyone with an IP address of one of the member organizations.
In Switzerland, access to ICPSR data is assured by 3 organisations:
| Organisation | Data access | Représentants |
|---|
| FORS |
Direct access for the personnel and the students of the universities of Lausanne, Fribourg, Neuchâtel, Berne, Basel and St Gall, the schools of applied sciences and Federal Polytechnical Schools |
Stefan Buerli |
| University of Geneva |
The personnel and the students of the University of Geneva have to address their demands for data to the official representative |
Eugène Horber |
| University of Zürich |
Direct access for the personnel and the students of the University of Zurich |
Andrée Helminger |
Note:
At the moment, only the main bulk of IP adresses of the universities represented by FORS are integrated into the direct access system. If you should encounter any problems in accessing the data, please contact the official representative at FORS.
The direct access system has not yet been implemented for the social science sections of the universities of applied science but will be very soon. As for now, interested people from universities of applied science can contact the official representative at FORS.
