The International Association for Social Science Information Service and Technology (or IASSIST) is an international organisation that provides professional development, communication and conferences for data librarians, archivists, and social science aligned information specialists.

It emerged to manage and increase access to the growing amount of machine-readable social science data.

[5] The first IASSIST conference was held in 1977 in Cocoa Beach, Florida [6] with 29 representatives from Canada and the United States.

The IASSIST Quarterly (ISSN: 2331-4141 Online, 0739–1137 Print) is a peer-reviewed, indexed,[11] open access quarterly journal of articles dealing with social science information and data services.

[12] The IQ is published by the IASSIST and hosted by the University of Alberta Libraries.