GESIS – let us introduce

SSOAR: The Open Access Repository for the Social Sciences, your research library online - more visibility to your work!
The Social Science Open Access Repository (SSOAR) is very much known and used as a kind of online library, where more than 26.500 research publications from the Social Sciences can be found, read, saved, forwarded and citied for free.
Most of the users come through the search engines like Google where SSOAR- documents recieve exposed rankings.
Since the reform of the copyright in Germany and an indispensable right of secondary publishing self-archiving of one’s own work has become a lot easier. To archive your research in SSOAR means to share it with much more readers and scientists and provides a chance for it to be used and citied more. We from SSOAR can help you with that.

How to find data:

Top survey data at the GESIS archive:

ALLBUS: Biennial up-to-date data (since 1980) on attitudes, behavior, and social structure in Germany
ISSP: Continuous programme of cross-national collaboration running annual surveys on topics important for the social sciences with 48 member countries
Eurobarometer: Monitoring the public opinion in the European Union– Data conducted on behalf of the European Commission
European Value Study: The most comprehensive research project on human values in Europe. It is a large-scale, cross-national, and longitudinal survey research program on how Europeans think about family, work, religion, politics and society since late 1970s
German Longitudinal Election Study (GLES) (LINK): the largest and most ambitious election study held so far in Germany with a wide array of methodologies, combining quantitative as well as qualitative techniques.
and more election studies

Special analysis possibilities: The GESIS Secure Data Center

Analyzing official data - MISSY: Easy to use and clearly organized metadata searches , microdata tools for further data processing and more.

Summer School in Survey Methodology: Located in Colognethe GESIS Summer School focuses on methods relevant for data collectionand mainly targets PhD students and young researchers in all fields using survey research methods.
Spring Seminar: Three consecutive one-week courses in advanced methods of quantitative data analysis for Social Scientists.
Method seminar: basic knowledge and skills in quantitative data analysis since 1980 with a special focus on historical social research
Workshops: short courses of one to three days in a large variety of Social Science research methods, ranging from qualitative interviews via questionnaire construction, sampling procedures and introduction to specific survey programmes to data analysis.