Materials

In this video we show the most important functions of the Pollux literature search. This is free of charge for all who are interested.

We show what Pollux is, how it works, and which additional services graduate political scientists can use (german only).

PowerPoint presentation incl. notes for use in teaching (e.g. for introductions to scientific work)

PowerPoint presentation incl. notes for use in teaching (e.g. for introductions to scientific work)

Chilinski, J., & Lang, M. (2025). Forschungsnah und innovativ: Rückblick auf die VDB-Fortbildung für Fachreferent*innen der Soziologie und Politikwissenschaft. O-Bib. Das Offene Bibliotheksjournal Herausgeber VDB, 12(2), 1-6.

Chilinski, Jacob and Michael Czolkoß-Hettwer. Slides from the presentation on 26 June 2025 at the 9th Library Congress 2025

Czolkoß-Hettwer, M., Lein, P. & Mayr, P. Probleme und Potenziale der Forschungsinfrastrukturförderung in Deutschland am Beispiel des Fachinformationsdienstes Politikwissenschaft. Z Politikwiss (2024). https://doi.org/10.1007/s41358-024-00371-z

Djahangiri, Keyvan: Im Auftrag der DFG für die Wissenschaftscommunity. Chancen und Herausforderungen der Fachinformationsdienste unter besonderer Berücksichtigung ihrer Wissenschaftlichen Beiräte. In: Berliner Handreichungen zur Bibliotheks- und Informationswissenschaft, Heft 501 (2023). DOI: https://doi.org/10.18452/25862

Pfeifenberger, Regina und Wolfgang Otto: “Ich habe mich noch nicht mit Pollux beschäftigt” - eine Zufriedenheits- und Bedarfsanalyse des Fachinformationsdienstes Politikwissenschaft. In: o-bib. Das offene Bibliotheksjournal, Band 8 Nr. 1 (2021) DOI: https://doi.org/10.5282/o-bib/5680

The information site "Open Access in Political Science" was created in cooperation with the project open-access.network. The new OA Internet portal, which went online at the end of September 2021, offers scholars, OA newcomers, and OA professionals a comprehensive range of services free of charge, focusing on the topics of information, training, and networking.

Slides from the joint online workshop held on 12 June 2025 by the DVPW, open-access.network and Pollux (German only)

Pfeifenberger, Regina and Michael Czolkoß-Hettwer. Slides from the presentation on 26 June 2025 at the 9th Library Congress 2025.

Wrzesinski, M., Czolkoß-Hettwer, M., Ganz, K., & Heenes, F. (2024). Open Access in der Politikwissenschaft: Chancen und Fallstricke angesichts dysfunktionaler Marktstrukturen. 29. DVPW-Kongress "Politik in der Polykrise", Göttingen. Zenodo. https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.13927951 Panel "D 30 | Open Access in der Politikwissenschaft: Chancen und Fallstricke angesichts dysfunktionaler Marktstrukturen" Chair: Dirk Jörke, Technische Universität Darmstadt Vortragende: Kathrin Ganz, Freie Universität Berlin: Community-driven Open Access: Reputation, Governance und Skalierbarkeit bei alternativen Publikationsmodellen Marcel Wrzesinski, Alexander von Humboldt Institut für Internet und Gesellschaft: Forschungsevaluation im Kontext des Open-Access-Publizierens Michael Czolkoß-Hettwer, Fachinformationsdienst Politikwissenschaft (Staats- und Universitätsbibliothek Bremen): Normativer Rahmen und die Hürden in der Praxis: Die Open-Access-Transformation in der (Politik-)Wissenschaft Franciska Heenes, Universitäts- und Stadtbibliothek Köln: Open Peer Review in den Sozialwissenschaften – Potentiale einer Transformation

In this video we explain step by step how registered political scientists can easily upload their already published journal articles to SSOAR via Pollux. SSOAR - Social Science Open Access Repository - is the largest fulltext server for the social sciences and is operated by GESIS Leibniz Institute for the Social Sciences.

Dr. Agathe Gebert, Teamleitung Library & Open Access - GESIS Leibniz Institute for the Social Sciences. “Get more citations through secondary publication on SSOAR”. Presentation at DVPW-Convention 2021, 15.09.2021 (german only)

Lena Dreher, open-access.network. “open access funding programs”. Presentation at DVPW-Convention 2021, 14.09.2021

Jessika Rücknagel, open-access.network. “Quality Assessment of Open Access Journals.” Presentation at DVPW Convention 2021, 14.9.2021

Slides from the workshop on 17/18 June 2025

Dr. Jonas Recker, GESIS Leibniz Institute for the Social Sciences “Management and sharing of quantitative research data”. Presentation at DVPW Convention 2021, 15.09.2021

Dr. Jan-Ocko Heuer, research data center Qualiservice “Management and sharing of qualitative research data”. Presentation at DVPW Convention 2021, 15.09.2021

Smirnova, Nina: Pollux Political Corpora (PoliCorp). Slides from the webinar on 2 June 2025

Nina Smirnova: Calls to order and interjections in Germaparl: a preliminary analysis of political agendas in the German Bundestag. Presentation as part of the panel "Text as Data Approaches to measuring political competition and representation (1): Communication Styles" at DVPW Convention 2024

In this video (webinar held on 20.11.2023) we provide a short introduction to Factiva and especially how to use its advanced search called Search Builder and how to work with the results that you get.

Presentation on Factiva webinar that took place in November 2023 and provides an overview of content, search options and search syntax.

Presentation on Factiva webinar that took place in November 2023 and provides an overview of content, search options and search syntax (english version).