IRIS (Incorporated Research Institutions for Seismology) — a university consortium sponsored by the National Science Foundation that is dedicated to the operation of scientific facilities for the acquisition, management, and distribution of freely available seismic data.

The aim of the project — to accept membership in the international corporation IRIS and actively cooperate with other members.

IRIS is open to foreign partnerships, it does not require cash expenditures for foreign partners, participation in meetings IRIS in the United States, or take a meeting. However, membership in IRIS obligation to promote their ideas in a country where the partner. And to facilitate the development policy of openness seismic data in their storage and preservation, even interacting with the government if necessary. An important condition is free of their data to other members of IRIS.

After the membership is planned to install and use software developed by IRIS for collecting, organizing seismic data, and providing free access to them.