Informationsplattform Open Access: Soziologie

"Neither the German Sociological Association (DGS) nor its US counterpart, the American Sociological Association (ASA), are among the signatories of the Berlin Declaration on Open Access to Knowledge in the Sciences and Humanities. However, despite the absence of a commitment to open access (OA) on the part of these professional associations, the prerequisites for OA exist in sociology. Not one of the following core journals are published in OA: American Journal of Sociology (AJS), American Sociological Review (ASR),Annual Review of Sociology, Sociological Methodology, and in the German speaking area, Berliner Journal für Soziologie (BJS), Kölner Zeitschrift für Soziologie und Sozialpsychologie (KzfSS), Leviathan, Soziale Welt, Sozialer Sinn and Zeitschrift für Soziologie (ZfS). However, the ZfS makes its articles openly accessible on its homepage two years after publication, as does Wirtschaft und Gesellschaft (WuG). Other journals adopt a similar approach. For example, two years after publication, Historical Social Research (HSR) automatically makes articles openly accessible in the disciplinary repository Social Science Open Access Repository (SSOAR). Examples of 'born-OA journals' areForum Qualitative Sozialforschung (FQS), Survey Research Methods (srm), Sociological Research Online, Comparative Population Studies, the European Integration Online Papers and Demographic Research. Moreover, the ASA has announced that it will launch a new OA journal in 2015, which will cover all subfields of sociology. Other OA journals in sociology can be searched for via the Directory of Open Access Journals (DOAJ) ... In particular, the aforementioned repository, SSOAR, may be considered important for sociology. Internationally, thehttp://www.ssrn.com/en/Social Sciences Research Network (SSRN) is also of importance, although the literature it hosts is not sociological in the narrow sense of the word but rather from fields such as economics, political science, and anthropology ..."