The most important databases:

• WISO
• Web of Science (Social Sciences Citation Index)
• Sociological Abstracts 
• International Bibliography of Social Sciences (IBSS)

More:

• SocioHub (Specialized Information Service Sociology)
• DBIS - Sociology

• German-language Springer e-books in the Social Sciences: 2008-2015
• German-language Springer e-books in the Social Sciences from 2016

The most important e-journals (selection):

• American Sociological Review (ASR)
• Annual Review of Sociology
• Sociological Methods and Research (SMR)
• Cologne Journal of Sociology and Social Psychology (KZfSS)
• Zeitschrift für Soziologie (ZfS) (Journal of Sociology)
• Berlin Journal of Sociology
• Social World

More:

• List of journals of the German Sociological Association
• Journal Citation Reports
• EZB - Sociology

• Basic Concepts of Sociology / edited by Johannes Kopp, Anja Steinbach. Wiesbaden, 2016
• International encyclopedia of the social & behavioral sciences. Amsterdam: Elsevier, 2001-
• A dictionary of sociology / ed. by John Scott. 4. ed. Oxford, 2014 
• Lexikon der soziologischen Werke (Encyclopedia of Works in Sociology)/ Ed. Georg W. Oesterdiekhoff. 2nd, updated and extended edition, Wiesbaden, 2014 
• DBIS - Dictionaries, Encyclopedias and Reference

• Offers of the UB
• Advice on research data management at JGU
• Locating – Quoting – Documenting: Research data in the Social Sciences and Economics
• Portal for Research Infrastructures: RIsources

• SozBlog - official blog of the German Sociological Association

• Scientific work in economics and social sciences / Doris Berger-Grabner. 3rd edition Wiesbaden, 2016 
• Wissenschaftliches Arbeiten für Wirtschafts- und Sozialwissenschaftler / Claus Ebster, Lieselotte Stalzer. 5th, revised and enlarged edition. Vienna, 2017
• Mit der Literaturübersicht die Bachelorarbeit meistern : für Wirtschafts- und Sozialwissenschaften / Lydia Prexl. Konstanz, [2017]
• WISO tutorial video

• Institute of Sociology

• New Acquisitions Sociology

In the Central Library, you can find social science textbooks under classification number 29 in the textbook collection.

Cataloging systems at our locations

• Leibniz Institute for the Social Sciences in Mannheim and Cologne: GESIS Search
• Link collection Sociology, Social Sciences / Social Work of the University Library Duisburg-Essen
• Link Collection Social Sciences, Sociology of the Library Service Center Baden-Württemberg
• Resources of the Institute of Sociology at FU Berlin
• SocioSite, Social Science Information System, University of Amsterdam
• German Sociological Association (DGS)