Welcome at the full-text server SSOAR
Welcome to the Social Science Open Access Repository (SSOAR). Here on our website you will find steadily growing holdings of freely available, full-text social science documents.
If you want to search for documents, please use the browse and search function.
If you, as an author, would like to permanently archive your publications and make them accessible in SSOAR, please use the add new document function. You will first be requested to register once with the repository using an email address. As a registered user, you can upload and manage your full texts. The registered email address will be used for further communication with you and to send you the terms of use agreement. Please read our guidelines.
If you, as a research institution, a scholarly journal, or a publisher, wish to cooperate with us and to make a large number of publications, or the publications of your researchers, available to the public via SSOAR (so-called “secondary publication”), you can find out about delivery routes and formats, read our guidelines, and contact us.
To enable us to continuously optimise our services, we, the SSOAR team, would appreciate your feedback if you notice any defects or malfunctions.
Searching in SSOAR
If you want to search for documents, use the browse-and-search function.
Browse by subject area, institution, author, publisher, year of publication and much more. Please also note our thesaurus keywords to quickly find the content you are interested in.
Publishing in SSOAR
Make your publications accessible on SSOAR.
You will first be asked to register once with an e-mail address. As a registered user, you can upload and manage full texts. The registered e-mail address is used for further communication and for sending the user agreement.
Please note our guidelines.
Cooperating with SSOAR
If you are a research institution, specialist journal or publisher and would like to cooperate with us and publish a large number of publications or the publications of your researchers on SSOAR, you can find out about delivery channels and formats here.
Please note our guidelines.