The Social Science Open Access Repository (SSOAR) is a

database In computing, a database is an organized collection of data or a type of data store based on the use of a database management system (DBMS), the software that interacts with end users, applications, and the database itself to capture and a ...

that offers open, online access to peer-reviewed articles from the

social sciences Social science (often rendered in the plural as the social sciences) is one of the branches of science, devoted to the study of society, societies and the Social relation, relationships among members within those societies. The term was former ...

Overview

SSOAR is a full-text server, and Internet users can access full-text versions of documents free of charge and without prior registration. The

repository Repository may refer to: Archives and online databases * Content repository, a database with an associated set of data management tools, allowing application-independent access to the content * Disciplinary repository (or subject repository), an ...

follows the so-called "Green Road", a strategy for the implementation of

Open Access Open access (OA) is a set of principles and a range of practices through which nominally copyrightable publications are delivered to readers free of access charges or other barriers. With open access strictly defined (according to the 2001 de ...

whereby

preprint In academic publishing, a preprint is a version of a scholarly or scientific paper that precedes formal peer review and publication in a peer-reviewed scholarly or scientific journal. The preprint may be available, often as a non-typeset versi ...

s or

postprint A postprint is a digital draft of a research journal article ''after'' it has been peer reviewed and accepted for publication, but ''before'' it has been typeset and formatted by the journal. Related terminology A digital draft before peer re ...

s of scholarly contributions are archived in an openly accessible repository in addition to being published in toll-access journals, etc. The project is coordinated by an editorial team that reviews each submission, with input from an advisory board composed of members from scholarly societies. Postprints from 2025 onwards get indexed, only if their articles are from journals listed in the

Directory of Open Access Journals The Directory of Open Access Journals (DOAJ) is a website that hosts a community-curated list of open access journals, maintained by Infrastructure Services for Open Access (IS4OA). It was launched in 2003 with 300 open access journals. The miss ...

External links

* {{Official website German digital libraries Open-access archives Discipline-oriented digital libraries Full-text scholarly online databases