GESIS - German Social Science Infrastructure Services e.V. (registered association)

The GESIS provides services in support of social science research including development and supply of databases with information on social science literature and research activities as well as the archiving and provision of survey data from social research. Services including consultation on methodological questions, development of complex methods of empirical social research as well as GESIS’ own long-term observation of social developments with the aid of these instruments are also available. GESIS was established in 1986 and is divided into three departments:

		GESIS-IZ, Bonn
		GESIS-ZA, University of Cologne
		GESIS-ZUMA, Mannheim
		and maintains a Service Agency Eastern Europe in Berlin.

GESIS is member of

	In conjunction with the University of Mannheim GESIS seeks to appoint a Scientific Director of the department “Social Monitoring and Social Change”
	In conjunction with the University of Cologne, GESIS seeks to appoint a Scientific Director of the department "Data Archive and Data Analysis"
	GESIS Working Paper: Befragung der Professoren und Mitarbeiter der politischen Wissenschaften (in German)
	GESIS Working Paper: Pilot Study for a Research Rating in Sociology (in German)
	GESIS-research report - Survey Methodology Band 1: Private Household Concepts and their Operationalisation in National and International Social Surveys
	GESIS Conference Report Qualitätsmanagement und Qualitätssicherung (in German)
	HSR-Volume 33 (1/2008): Special Issue: Discourse Analysis / Diskursanalyse
	The new magazine on methodology, data and analysis -MDA is availbale (in German)
	HSR-Volume 32 (4/2007): Special Issue: New Political Economy in History
	The gesis report, our new Newsletter, is available (in German)
	sowiOnline Rechtsradikalismus/3		Seminars and Workshops
	SOFIS Survey 2007 (in German)		ZUMA-Nachrichten Spezial 13
	Knowledge Base Social Sciences in Eastern Europe		Newsletter Eastern Europe
			HSR-Supplement 19 (2007): Grounded Theory Reader
	ZACAT - Browse, analyse & download selected survey data		ISI Nr. 38 -  ZIS 10.0 - EHES 3.0
	Radiohören in der DDR - ALLBUS 2006		Datenreport 2006 (in German)
	Election Studies from Eastern Europe 1989 - 2007		Die regionalen Standards 2005 (in German)