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Pollux will be funded by the DFG for another three years

July 10, 2025

We are very happy!

After three successful funding phases (2016ff), the DFG has fully approved our renewal proposal. This means that the FID Political Science will be funded for a further three years with a total of EUR 1.9 million.

Priorities of the fourth funding phase (2025-2028):

  • Expansion of the Pollux research portal, which currently contains about 13 million documents, to include research data, grey literature, abstracts and citations
  • Further development of the ‘PoliCorp’ analysis tool for structured political text data (text corpora)
  • Expansion of open science activities, in particular open access
  • Strengthening research data management for qualitative political science data
  • Optimisation of internal work processes and quality assurance
  • Increased public relations work to raise the visibility of the service in the community
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Events on “Open Political Science”

May 8, 2025

The principles of Open Science are becoming increasingly important - also in political science. Open science stands for transparent, comprehensible and accessible research processes. It promotes the quality of scientific work and complies with the guidelines of good scientific practice of the German Research Foundation (DFG).

Pollux now offers subject-specific webinars and online workshops on the open science topics of

The events are aimed at all political scientists. Participation is free of charge.

Open ScienceOpen AccessOpen Peer ReviewResearch Data ManagementWorkshops
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Get the best search results

Pollux offers access to a large number of resources in different formats - free of charge for registered political scientists. Following the e-first-principle, all sources are made available digitally and directly wherever possible.

  • Comprehensive political science search space
  • Free of charge, up-to-date and fast
  • Electronic full texts (ebooks, articles)
  • Large, up-to-date newspaper archive (Factiva)

Reference lists

  • Find and save relevant literature
  • Use different lists to store titles using your criteria
  • Export lists to the reference management software
  • Use a rating system to score best sources
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Factiva

  • Articles from 600 German-language and 14,000 international newspapers, as well as documents and publications from international institutions
  • International newspapers (The Times, The New York Times, The Independent etc.)
  • German-language newspapers (Die Zeit, Süddeutsche Zeitung, Handelsblatt etc.)