Social Sciences

Databases

The most important databases:

WISO

Web of Science (Social Sciences Citation Index)

Sociological Abstracts

International Bibliography of Social Sciences (IBSS)

More databases:

SocioHub (Specialized Information Service Sociology)

DBIS - Sociology

E-books

German-language Springer e-books in the Social Sciences: 2008-2015

German-language Springer e-books in the social sciences from 2016 onwards

Journals

The most important e-journals (selection):

American Sociological Review (ASR)

Annual Review of Sociology

Sociological Methods and Research (SMR)

Cologne Journal of Sociology and Social Psychology (KZfSS)

Zeitschrift für Soziologie (ZfS)

Berliner Journal für Soziologie

Soziale Welt

More e-journals:

List of journals of the German Sociological Association

Journal Citation Reports

EZB - Sociology

Reference books / dictionaries online

Basic Concepts of Sociology / edited by Johannes Kopp, Anja Steinbach. Wiesbaden, 2016

International encyclopedia of the social & behavioral sciences. Amsterdam: Elsevier, 2001-

A dictionary of sociology / ed. by John Scott. 4. ed. Oxford, 2014 

Lexikon der soziologischen Werke (Encyclopedia of Works in Sociology)/ Ed. Georg W. Oesterdiekhoff. 2nd, updated and extended edition, Wiesbaden, 2014 

Research Data

Offers of the UB

Advice on research data management at JGU

Locating – Citing – Documenting: Research data in the Social Sciences and Economics

Portal for Research Infrastructures: RIsources

Blogs

SozBlog - Official blog of the German Sociological Association

Educational Resources

Scientific work in economics and social sciences / Doris Berger-Grabner. 3. Ed. Wiesbaden, 2016 

Wissenschaftliches Arbeiten für Wirtschafts- und Sozialwissenschaftler / Claus Ebster, Lieselotte Stalzer. 5th, revised and enlarged edition. Vienna, 2017

Mit der Literaturübersicht die Bachelorarbeit meistern : für Wirtschafts- und Sozialwissenschaften / Lydia Prexl. Konstanz, [2017]

WISO video tutorial

Local Institutions

Institute of Sociology

New literature for you

New Acquisitions Sociology

Location in library

In the Central Library, you can find social science textbooks under call number 29 in the textbook collection.

Cataloging systems at our locations

More information

Leibniz Institute for the Social Sciences in Mannheim and Cologne: GESIS Search

Link collection Sociology, Social Sciences / Social Work of the University Library Duisburg-Essen

Link collection Social Sciences, Sociology of the Library Service Center Baden-Württemberg

Resources of the Institute of Sociology at FU Berlin

SocioSite, Social Science Information System, University of Amsterdam

German Sociological Association (DGS)

Tipp

Would you like to know more about the WISO database for economics and social sciences? Make an appointment with Silvia Kästner, Tel. +49 6131 39-23454 or email kaestner@uni-mainz.de.