ELSST – European Language Social Science Thesaurus
The European Language Social Science Thesaurus (ELSST) is a broad-based, multilingual thesaurus for the social sciences. It is owned and published by the Consortium of European Social Science Data Archives (CESSDA) and its national Service Providers. The thesaurus consists of over 3,400 concepts and covers the core social science disciplines: politics, sociology, economics, education, law, crime, demography, health, employment, information and communication technology, and environmental science.
ELSST is used for data discovery within CESSDA and facilitates access to data resources across Europe, independent of domain, resource, language or vocabulary.
ELSST is currently available in 15 languages: Czech, Dutch, English, Finnish, French, German, Greek, Hungarian, Icelandic, Lithuanian, Norwegian, Romanian, Slovenian, Spanish, and Swedish.
ELSST is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 International License.
Attribution: Consortium of European Social Science Data Archives (CESSDA) and its national Service Providers.
Recommended Citation: CESSDA and Service Providers (2024) The European Language Social Science Thesaurus (ELSST), https://elsst.cessda.eu.
The translations have been contributed under CC-BY-SA 4.0 by the following institutions:
The Institute of Sociology of the Czech Academy of Sciences, Czech Republic
Data Archiving and Networked Services, The Netherlands
University of Essex, United Kingdom
Tampere University Foundation sr, Finland
Swiss Centre of Expertise in the Social Sciences (FORS), Switzerland
GESIS - Leibniz Institute for the Social Sciences, Germany
National Centre for Social Research, Greece
Centre for Social Sciences Research Documentation Centre (TK KDK), Hungary
DATICE - The Icelandic Social Science Data Service, Iceland
Kaunas University of Technology, Lithuania
Norwegian Agency for Shared Services in Education and Research – Sikt, Norway
Romanian Social Data Archive, Romania
University of Ljubljana, Faculty of Social Sciences, Slovenia
The Swedish National Data Service, University of Gothenburg, Sweden