Liebe Kollegen, zur Kenntnissnahme weise ich auf die jetzt verfügbare Open-Access-Zeitschrift "Survey Research Methods" hin.

Beste Grüße

Rainer Schnell

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The first issue of the online journal ‘Survey Research Methods’ has been published today! ‘Survey Research Methods’ is the journal of the European Survey Research Association and is available free to all at www.surveymethods.org.

The first issue contains the following papers:

- Minimizing survey refusal and noncontact rates: do our efforts pay off? by Dirk Heerwegh, Koen Abts and Geert Loosveldt; - Clarifying Some Issues in the Regression Analysis of Survey Data by Phillip S. Kott; - Individual Social Capital and Its Measurement in Social Surveys by Keming Yang; - Estimation of the effects of measurement characteristics on the quality of survey questions by Willem E. Saris and Irmtraud Gallhofer; - Survey Non-Response Procedures in Cross-National Perspective: The 2005 ISSP Non-Response Survey by Tom W. Smith.

The journal is edited by Peter Lynn (University of Essex) and Rainer Schnell (University of Konstanz).

Please take a look at our journal and do consider it as a publication outlet for your own work.