Online-Surveys: Web Survey Methodology Site (WebSM)

Everything about Web Surveys
http://websm.org

• The WebSM portal is dedicated to the methodological issues of web surveys. It also covers the broader area of the interaction between modern technologies and survey data collection.

• The WebSM's mission ist to stimulate the application of web surveys, enhance co-operation between researchers, disseminate the relevant information to practitioners and expand research on new survey data collection methods.

• The portal offers the following:

• 2,500 bibliographical references

• 500 software/solution/services units

• up-to-date information on conferences, workshop and seminars

• contact details of 1,000 researchers

• a plattform for communication between social scientists, commercial practitioners and other users of Web surveys

Project partners are

• University of Ljubljana, Slovenia
  Faculty of Social Sciences, Centre for Methodology and Informatics; Kardeljeva ploscad 5, 1000 Ljubljana
  Dr. Vasja Vehovar; URL: http://www.fdv.uni-lj.si/

• GESIS-ZUMA
  Postfach 122155, 68072 Mannheim, Germany
  Lars Kaczmirek; URL: http://www.gesis.org/en/zuma/

• University of Bergamo, Italy
  Department of Mathematics, Statistics, Computing and Applications ; via dei Caniana 2, 24127 Bergamo
  Dr. Silvia Biffignandi; URL: http://www.unibg.it/

• Linköping University, Sweden
  Department of Mathematics; SE-581 83 Linköping
  Dr. Gosta Forsman; URL: http://www.mai.liu.se/

The project was funded by the European Commission Fifth Framework Programme (HPSE-CT- 2002 - 50031) for three years from 2003 to 2005.         

German Partners 

	Phone	Email
Dr. Wolfgang Bandilla	0621 / 1246 - 136
Dr. Michael Bosnjak, Lehrstuhl für Methodenlehre,  Diagnostik und Evaluation der Universität Mannheim	0621 / 181 - 2134
Lars Kaczmirek, Dipl.-Psych.	0621 / 1246 - 206