Social Science Open Access Repository

The Social Science Open Access Repository ( SSOAR) is a freely accessible documents on the Internet server that makes scholarly articles from the social sciences freely available. Ssoar is from CSA - operated Leibniz Institute for the Social Sciences and developed.

History

The aim of the DFG-funded project " Social Science Open Access Repository" was to build a full -text server for the social sciences, to eliminate the fragmentation of the landscape in the publication of Open Access area and to improve the international visibility of German research.

The structure of ssoar took place during the two -year project (2007-2008) focuses on the example of qualitative research. In particular, the link with the Qualitative Social Research ( FQS ), the largest international open- access journal for qualitative research, texts in German-speaking authors ssoar were initially recorded, texts by non- German authors followed.

Ssoar has since opened for the entire range of the social sciences and may be used freely by all interested parties.

Target groups

Scientists are addressed as prosumer, ie in the double role as producers and consumers of knowledge. Ssoar is in principle open to all social scientists and scientists adjacent scientific fields for the inputting of text.

In addition to individual scientists who can adjust their texts to ssoar, also related serials and periodicals are taken in cooperation with the respective editors, publishers and institutional partners.

Ssoar authors of all countries is open and is navigable in German and English.

Open Access

Ssoar combines social science relevant, high-quality peer-reviewed literature and presents them according to the Berlin Declaration on open access to scientific information in the Open Access.

In order to cover a broad science base, ssoar pursued different acquisition strategies. The setting of full texts is done both by the scientists themselves, as well as on mass and individual imports in collaboration with social science institutions, specialized infrastructure providers, publishers and editors.

Ssoar essentially treading the path of Green Open Access and sees it as a secondary publisher of quality-tested literature.

DINI Certificate

Ssoar archived quality-tested and bears the texts of the German Initiative for Network Information ( DINI ) awarded DINI Certificate 2007 for document and publication services. The DINI Certificate confirms compliance with formal and technical standards and quality criteria for Open Access repositories.

Services

Ssoar makes different types of documents available, enriched with detailed meta-information and are easy to find using the search function. Users can independently adjust electronic documents. This can be done via a configuration screen or an import feature in sowiport, the existing metadata feeds to the associated document. The data stored in ssoar texts are permanently stable URN scientifically quotable. The URN will be awarded in cooperation with the German National Library. Ssoar offers to export bibliographic data using bibtex / Endnote export and various citation styles. An RSS feed provides information on publications on ssoar.