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As part of this year's Open-Access-Week (21.10.- 25.10.2024) we are organizing a Coffee Lecture together with the SuUB Bremen with Prof. Dr. Paul Klimpel from the law firm iRights Law on the topic of legal issues with regard to open access secondary publications.

The coffee lecture will take place via Zoom on Monday, 21.10.2024, 12-12:30 pm including discussion and Q&A session

Link to the zoommeeting

Meeting-ID: 669 8224 5956

Kenncode: Bremen

During the DVPW Convention in Göttingen, all participants were able to vote for the political science research blog of the year 2024. In a first online round, four blogs made it to the second round: Politik & Ökonomie, Theorieblog, Über Politik aus der Wissenschaft and the DVPW-Blog.

The Theorieblog, the forum for political theory, history of ideas and political philosophy, won the election again after 2021. With only four votes less, “Über Politik aus der Wissenschaft” from the Working Group for Empirical Political Science at the University of Duisburg-Essen took second place. We congratulate both on this success!

As at the last DVPW Convention in 2021, you can again vote for which political science blog should be chosen as “Blog of the Year“.

This time, the voting process has two stages:

1. Until 17.9.2024 you can vote online (https://www.pollux-fid.de/blog24) which political science research blog is the best for you. The five blogs with the most votes will advance to the next round.
2. At the convention you will receive a voting card, which you can use to vote for your favorite blog until Thursday, 3 pm at the Pollux Lounge.

The winner will be announced on Thursday evening. 

Research infrastructure funding in Germany, like research funding in general, is strongly oriented towards projects and dependent on third-party funding. On the one hand, this constellation offers potential, for example for technical innovations to adapt to the digital transformation. On the other hand, this basic situation also entails problems, particularly with regard to the sustainable operation of research infrastructure facilities and the major challenges of open science. This article examines this constellation using the example of the DFG-funded specialized information service (FID) Political Science – Pollux and asks what role researchers can play in the further development of the research infrastructure. (german only)

Czolkoß-Hettwer, M., Lein, P. & Mayr, P. Probleme und Potenziale der Forschungsinfrastrukturförderung in Deutschland am Beispiel des Fachinformationsdienstes Politikwissenschaft. Z Politikwiss 34, 101–122 (2024)

Open Access: https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s41358-024-00371-z

Our online survey has been successfully completed. We would like to thank everyone who forwarded the link and all those who took part for their support. We will now carry out initial evaluations and publish the results, including the measures we have taken as a result, in Open Access.

Thank you very much!

Your feedback is important" We are developing Pollux according to your needs.

You can still take part in our survey until April 30:

https://www.pollux-fid.de/surveys/pollux-general-survey-2024

The survey takes about 10 minutes. No personal data will be collected.

Thank you very much for your support!

Our online survey will run until 23.04.2024 to determine the needs of the political science community and satisfaction with Pollux's services. 

Your feedback is important!

Please take a moment to share your experiences and perspectives in the areas of literature research, research methods, open science and science communication with us. Your opinion is essential for the further development of Pollux and thus also of the research support services for you - the political science researchers.

The survey takes about 10-15 minutes. No personal data will be collected. We look forward to your support!

Click here for the survey: https://www.pollux-fid.de/surveys/pollux-general-survey-2024

We are looking for two student assistants (SHK) as soon as possible. You can expect a wide range of tasks in our friendly team with flexible organizational options. The contract term is initially planned until September 30, 2025.

The first vacancy is aimed at students of political science. Another vacancy is aimed at students of computer science.

from Paula Lein

Qualitative political science research data is generally sensitive and is often based on a close relationship of trust between researchers and research participants. For example, participation in research projects in authoritarian regimes and the resulting personal research data are associated with particular risks for the research subjects. At the same time, however, this research data is rich, unique and often generated in research fields that are difficult to access. For this reason, long-term archiving that also enables subsequent scientific use should be considered on a regular basis - even if a large proportion of the material cannot be made fully accessible to the public for legal and/or ethical reasons. In order to protect research participants, high standards for archiving this research data and special protective procedures are therefore necessary. If researchers want to make their sensitive data available for scientific re-use, they need an appropriate archiving environment, which Qualiservice provides as part of the Specialized Information Service (FID) Political Science - Pollux.

You can find the whole article in the DVPW-Blog (German only)