The library portal Primo is a modern library catalog that provides access to local and external resources such as books, e-books, journals, as well as journal articles, book chapters, and digital objects from the collections of the FU libraries and from a mega index containing over 4 billion records.

Primo is linked in the My.FU portal.

Employees can access resources that are already available in Primo directly. All other book orders, including e-books, must be placed exclusively via erwerbung.bibliothek@polsoz.fu-berlin.de.

If you are interested in acquiring external literature that is not available in Primo, please contact your responsible office manager.

The University Library has concluded agreements with individual publishers and covers part or all of the publication costs for memebers of Freie Universität Berlin. This makes it easier for researchers at our university to publish - often without additional financial expenses or (in some cases) with discounts. 

More information, the complete list of publishers and contact details for the Open Access team at Freie Universität Berlin can be found here.

On the website of the department of Political Science and Sociology's Division for the Promotion of Young Researchers, you will find

• chronological descriptions of the individual and structured doctoral procedures
• requirements for a cumulative dissertation
• an introduction to conflict counseling at our department
• a list of frequently asked questions
• and the doctoral regulations applicable at the department for the Dr. phil/Ph.D. and Dr. rer. pol./Ph.D. degrees.

On this page, you will find detailed information about individual doctorates, including 

• Application and admission procedures 
• Searching for a supervisor 
• Commencing the doctoral process 
• Review of the dissertation 

Instructions for completing the documents to be submitted: 

Supervision agreement:

• must be submitted with the signature of the primary supervisor and the doctoral candidate; 
• in addition, the name of the chair of the docotral committee should be entered. 

Application for admission to the doctoral program:

• must only be signed by the primary supervisor and the doctoral candidate; 
• please not the attachments to be submitted listed on p. 2!
• the declarations required in accordance with § 4 of the doctoral regulations can be formulated in an informal letter and attached as a PDF file. 
• die laut Anlagen erforderlichen Erklärungen gemäß § 4 der Promotionsordnung können in einem formlosen Schreiben formuliert und als PDF beigefügt werden.

Application for commencement of the doctoral procedure: 

• the names of all members of the doctoral committee must be entered here, i.e., the doctoral candidate should submit a complete proposal for the committee.