ERIH PLUS (originally called the European Reference Index for the Humanities or ERIH) is an

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containing bibliographic information on

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and

social sciences Social science is one of the branches of science, devoted to the study of societies and the relationships among individuals within those societies. The term was formerly used to refer to the field of sociology, the original "science of soci ...

(SSH). The index includes all journals that meet the following requirements: "explicit procedures for external peer review; an academic editorial board, with members affiliated with universities or other independent research organizations; a valid ISSN code, confirmed by the international ISSN register; abstracts in English and/or another international language relevant for the field for all published articles; information on author affiliations and addresses; a maximum two thirds of the authors published in the journal from the same institution". ERIH was originally established by the

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and was transferred to the

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in 2014, mainly because it already operated th
Norwegian Register for Scientific Journals, Series and Publisers
Grethe Tidemann,

ew index shall ensure the quality of European academic publications ''Uniforum'', 29 May 2015. Retrieved 13 April 2016. At the same time it was extended to also include social science disciplines and renamed ERIH PLUS.European Reference Index for the Humanities (ERIH).

, 30 July 2014. The aim of ERIH PLUS is to increase the visibility and availability of SSH. The index goes beyond the commercial indexing services by providing a comprehensive coverage of the scholarly communication and publishing in the fields, enabling researchers to better disseminate their work in national and international languages.Gry Ane Vikanes Lavik; Gunnar Sivertsen,
Erih Plus – Making the Ssh Visible, Searchable and Available
, ''Procedia Computer Science'', 2017. Retrieved 13 November 2019. As of July 1st 2021, the ownership was transferred to the fresh

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External links

* {{Official website, https://erihplus.hkdir.no/ Bibliographic databases and indexes