In addition to general regional access, the GESIS SocioGuides�s framework lists some universal headings which offer selected types of information for specific user groups, or which are of interregional interest and therefore directly accessible:
| Other Clearinghouses and Virtual Catalogues: | Systematic, specialized, national and international guides to
information in Internet; universal browsers and search services with specialized access or delimiters |
| Libraries (German speaking countries) |
Interregional access to library stocks containing resources to social science |
| Data Sources | Access to processed primary and secondary data (qualitative and quantitative) |
| Methods and Software | Descriptions and, where appropriate, access to methods, statistical procedures, techniques, tools and software |
| Schools/Theoreticians/Concepts | Important schools, theoreticians and nomenclature |
| Calendars of Specialized Events | Calendars of events for specialists |
| University Education (sociology, German speaking countries) | Informations on conditions, specifications, and materials of education at the university level |
| Discussion Lists and Newsgroups | Access modi and archives of scientific discussion fora |
| Scientific Associations / Councils / Foundations | Addresses and informations of councils, associations, foundations |
| Other (journals, electronic text archives ...) | Remaining specific typs of information , at present, only journals with WWW-access and electronic text archives ...) |