Library & Research Information Services (RIS)
INCHER's RIS and Library is a service institution of INCHER. In addition to the services supporting research activities at INCHER, the following support is available to researchers and students engaged in higher education research:
- assistance with project and study-specific research and literature-based knowledge management (RIS)
- providing literature (library)
- systematic preparation of bibliographies and reference literature on individual topics (knowledge-management-service)
A special offer for researchers constitutes the RIS-Documents, formerly Higher Education Research - A Compilation of Journals and abstracts. The Compilation provides a collection of relevant, especially international scientific journals for higher education research. The continuously expanded collection ranges from dedicated, mostly peer-reviewed higher education research journals to sociological, organizational sociology, labor market-oriented, theoretical and empirical contributions to higher education research. The open access database includes article titles, authors and abstracts on the articles of the volume. As a “side effect”, the comprehensive and structured information tool also provides an overview of current topics in the field of higher education research.
The special research library of INCHER provides academic literature and journals with regard to our research areas. The holdings range from i.e. nationally and internationally published monographs and editorials, journals, and so called gray literature, on the main topics:
- Tertiary and Higher Education
- (higher education systems, institutions, planning, reform and evaluation)
- Study, students and graduates
- Academic professions and early career researchers
- Organizational aspects of Higher Eduction
- (higher education management and development, leadership, governance)
- Research policies and funding
- Occupation and labor market
- (graduate employment, careers of academics, highly skilled women)
- Educational research and science studies
- (theoretical approaches, empirical analyses, social science methods)
Sources for literature search
- KARLA - Catalogue portal University Library of the University of Kassel
- More information about the university library's services