Author Information IHS Working Paper Series
To publish a paper in the IHS Working Paper Series, please take note of the following steps:
- After coming up with the idea for a potential working paper, you need to contact one of the three responsible editors. Robert Kunst manages all papers in the area of Economics, Katrin Auel deals with all papers in Political Science and Beate Littig is responsible for all papers in the field of Sociology.
- The editor then either accepts or rejects your proposal for publication and - if necessary - involves a referee who will also give his/her feedback on the paper.
- If you prefer to have your paper copy edited, contact the copy editor well ahead.
- Send the manuscript together with the filled out user agreement to the editor for a final check. For the avoidance of any copyright-infringements, make sure that you have the written permission from all the other contributors (especially the co-authors) to publish the paper open access under the CC-BY 4.0 license.
- If the editor gives the go-ahead, send the final manuscript to library@ihs.ac.at (for reasons of long-term archiving, the IHS Library prefers the original format, e.g. Word). On its first page the final manuscript must include the necessary metadata such as title, authors, affiliation, abstract and keywords, possibly also JEL code (example). From these metadata the repository IRIHS will automatically create a coversheet containing the IHS logo and a subsequent copyright page. If you need a template for the page containing the metadata, please contact library@ihs.ac.at.
- You will be informed by the library or the fellowship coordinator, as soon as your paper has been published. It will be uploaded in the internal repository IRIHS and disseminated via email and via various scientific databases, such as EconStor, RePEc, SSOAR, BASE, OpenAire, etc.
Editors
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Beate Littig is fellow at the Institute for Advanced Studies and member of the research platform 'Socio-ecological transformation'. Before the restructuration of the IHS she headed for 10 years the Sociology department of the institute, whose research agenda since 2009 has been focused on practice studies. She studied Sociology (History, Philosophy and Psychology) at the Universities of Göttingen, Hamburg and Berlin. From 1987-89 she was a member of the interdisciplinary research and consulting team at the Daimler-Benz-Institute for Technology and Society in Berlin. The focus of her work then was on the analysis of changing values in Western societies and its potential impacts on the enterprise. From 1990-92 she participated in the two-year postgraduate-programme at the IHS, Department of Sociology. From 1993-94 she worked free-lanced in several research projects (such as environmental learning and qualification, social issue management).
In June 1994 she became research assistant at the IHS (occupied with two OECD-projects, Technology Audit for Hungary and National Innovation Systems). In 1995 she finished her Ph.D. at the FernUniversität at Hagen. Since February 1996 she is a senior researcher at the Institute for Advanced Studies in Vienna, Department of Sociology. In 2001 she finished the habilitation procedure at the University of Vienna and became senior lecturer of Sociology at the University of Vienna. From 2005 until 2009 she was vice-president of the Austrian Sociology Association (ÖGS). Beate coordinated many national and international research projects mainly in the areas of environmental sociology, sustainable work(ing societies), gender studies and participatory technology assessment. She teaches in Austrian and German universities as well as in international summer schools and workshops. -
