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In collaboration with Polit-X, we are once again offering a 45-minute webinar on Otober 21st 2025, 11 a.m. to introduce Polit-X.

The webinar will demonstrate how to search through millions of daily updated political documents at federal, state and European level, how to analyse political topics, how to track processes and how to apply AI. There will be plenty of time for your questions at the end of the webinar. We at Pollux and Polit-X look forward to your participation!

Please register via the following link: https://us06web.zoom.us/meeting/register/Oh0jwhZURgCf_pI96QeKiQ#/registration

Participation is free of charge. To use Polit-X, you need a PLUS account with Pollux.

On Tuesday, 7 October, from 11 a.m. to 12 noon, we are offering a webinar on PoliCorp.

Register at: https://uni-bremen.zoom.us/meeting/register/tj47F9AQRtWwsnFVfcxPmw#/registration

Participation is free of charge.

Pollux Political Corpora – PoliCorp offers researchers structured and searchable access to processed text corpora. PoliCorp currently contains a collection of transcripts of Bundestag debates (GermaParl) covering 76 years of parliamentary debates – from September 1949 to July 2025. The integration of additional sources (e.g. StateParl) is in progress. A demo version of PoliCorp is available at https://demo-pollux.gesis.org/.

The webinar will cover the following topics: Accessing and working with open corpora in PoliCorp Main features and use cases of PoliCorp Practical demonstrations for research and analysis The event is aimed at researchers, students and anyone interested in political text analysis, and will be held in English.

SOCIOS Webinar, 30.09.2025, 1 pm

Open peer review is considered a promising way to achieve greater transparency, dialogue and quality in the scientific publication process. New formats and infrastructures are emerging, particularly around preprints, which are breaking down the traditional separation between evaluation and publication. This webinar will discuss the opportunities that open review offer authors, reviewers and researchers, and how these can be implemented beyond traditional journals. Current developments and practical examples will be used to show how open review of preprints works in practice, what challenges exist and how greater recognition of open review can be achieved.

The webinar is aimed at all political scientists who are interested in transparent peer review processes beyond traditional journals.

Register: https://uni-koeln.zoom.us/meeting/register/I2derh9vSFaDhEhHJ_I76A#/registration

Participation is free of charge.

References and citations have recently been integrated into the Pollux search. What exactly does this mean?

You can now publish your reference lists stored in Pollux and/or share them with others and edit them together. Invited persons only need a Pollux account (Standard or PLUS) to participate.

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. Further information can be found in the press release.

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.

Pollux offers researchers an easy way to search and analyze political text collections (corpora) on a new experimental platform Pollux Political Corpora (PoliCorp). PoliCorp provides researchers with access to rich textual data, enabling in-depth analysis of parliamentary discourse over time.

PoliCorp currently contains data from the GermaParl corpus, a collection of transcripts of Bundestag debates, spanning 72 years of parliamentary debates - from 1949 to 2021 - and comprises over 958,000 speech contributions.

PoliCorp is designed to cater to the needs of researchers in political science and related disciplines. The user-friendly web interface facilitates efficient and straightforward data searching. The current version of the platform allows researchers to perform keyword-based searches within the corpus. Several search fields can be combined and logical filters can be used to uncover patterns and correlations. Researchers can download selected subcorpora free of charge in JSON format and use them for further analysis. Future enhancements will include advanced search capabilities (i.e. search by synonyms, topics, etc.) and integrated data analytics functionalities.

The PoliCorp Beta-Version is available here: https://demo-pollux.gesis.org/