The Data Catalogue DBK holds study descriptions of all studies that are long-term archived at the Data Archive. You can search for studies and download or order data for secondary analysis. Topics: Agricultural, forestry and rural industry ; Rural economics ; Labour and employment ; Working conditions ; Unemployment ; In-job training ; Employment ; Demography and population ; Educational policy ; Biotechnology ; Drug abuse ; Income, property and investment / saving ; Elites and leadership ; Nutrition Education ; Family life and marriage ; Fertility ; Land use and planning ; Leisure, tourism and sport ; Community, urban and rural life ; History; Gender and gender roles ; Business / industrial management ; Society and culture ; Law, crime and legal systems ; Legislation ; Health ; Equality and inequality ; Trade, industry and markets ; Information technology, society ; Domestic political issues ; International politics and organisation ; Youth ; Children ; Conflict, security and peace ; Consumption / consumer behaviour ; Crime ; Cultural activities and participation ; Cultural and national identity ; Physical fitness and exercise ; Life-long / continuing education ; Teaching profession ; Vocational education ; Teaching packages and test datasets ; Mass media ; Migration ; Minorities ; Natural landscapes ; Natural resources and energy ; Plant and animal distribution ; Politics ; Political ideology ; Mass political behaviour, attitudes / opinion ; Psychology ; Legal systems ; Government, political systems and organisation ; Religion and values ; Rehabilitation / reintegration into society ; Retirement ; Childbearing, family planning and abortion ; Social exclusion ; Specific social services: use and provision ; Social conditions and indicators ; Social stratification; Social welfare policy; elderly; elections Economic conditions and indicators ; Economic policy.

The GESIS search can be used to find information about social science research data and open access publications. It covers: * Research Data * Variables from questionnaires * Instruments and tools * Literature, incl. publications on research data & surveying instruments, open access publications in the social sciences, as well as literature on the topic "Women in science" * Collections of the GESIS library * GESIS webpages, incl. general information and offers on the GESIS websites

The Max Planck e-Book Index provides holdings of electronic books licensed for users in the Max Planck Society.

SocArXiv, open archive of the social sciences, provides a free, non-profit, open access platform for social scientists to upload working papers, preprints, and published papers, with the option to link data and code. SocArXiv is dedicated to opening up social science, to reach more people more effectively, to improve research, and build the future of scholarly communication.

SSOAR collects electronic full texts from the domain of the Social Sciences and makes these texts available according to the Berlin Declaration on Open Access to Scientific Knowledge.

The SSRN eLibrary consists of two parts: an Abstract Database containing abstracts on over 60,500 scholarly working papers and forthcoming papers and an Electronic Paper Collection currently containing over 38,400 downloadable fulltext documents in Adobe Acrobat pdf format. The eLibrary also includes the research papers of a number of Fee Based Partner Publications.

The USB offers both a wide spectrum of current information media and an extensive collection of historically important books. Its comprehensive special collections and areas of collection emphasis (business studies, social sciences, insurance studies, culture of Belgium/Luxembourg, Rhineland writings, European Union, Iceland-collection make the library especially relevant for a supra-regional and non-academic clientele. Die USB Köln hat bis zum Jahr 2013 die wissenschaftlich relevante Literatur zu den Sozialwissenschaften so vollständig wie möglich gesammelt. Ein besonderer Schwerpunkt des Bestandsaufbaus für das SSG Sozialwissenschaften lag im Bereich der ausländischen sozialwissenschaftlichen Literatur aus dem anglo-amerikanischen Sprachraum, da diese Literatur für die Sozialwissenschaften eine besondere Bedeutung hat.