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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

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/