Social Science Open Access Repository (SSOAR)

The full-text server SSOAR, which is maintained at GESIS Leibniz Institute for the Social Sciences, collects and archives literature of relevance to the social sciences and makes it available in open access onthe Internet in accordance with the Berlin Declaration on Open Access to Knowledge in the Sciences and Humanities.By archiving works in SSOAR, authors and publishers support free access to scientific information and optimised visibility of social science research results. SSOAR primarily pursues the so-called GreenRoad to Open Access (OA) and sees itself as a secondary publisher of quality-controlled literature.