Providing consultation on and access to information and services in the social sciences

Eastern Europe Social Science

The databases produced by GESIS-IZ are the foundation upon which the comprehensive services offered are made available to interested parties from research, teaching and education, the private sector, administration, politics and the media. This includes access to additional national and international databases.

The information made available can be specifically culled from the variety of services offered by GESIS-IZ and then tailored to the user’s specific needs. Consultation ranges from general information found within the GESIS-IZ databases, content and retrieval possibilities, assistance on search strategies for user initiated retrieval, referring to extant information compilations regarding specific topics, all the way through to providing information from national and international social science databases (search service) including tips and hints for locating information sources on topics that are not available through database searches. In addition, GESIS-IZ has a long and successful history of database construction which enables their staff to offer valuable assistance for conceiving information systems for specific sub-disciplines.

Consultation in Eastern European social sciences

The GESIS Service Agency Eastern Europe offers targeted support of social science activities concerning Eastern Europe for the following:

• searches for, or locating of research partners and scientists of various disciplines in many Eastern European countries
• finding speakers and reports on specific social science research topics
• recruiting of and guidance for guest researchers 
• evaluating specific questions on the Eastern European science systems
• the search for and use of materials including the Internet.