The Institute of Information Science of Shanghai Academy of Social Sciences (SASS) is an information think tank specializing in information studies on major strategies and social sciences. There are also 3 information platforms aラiated to our institute: the Silk Road Information Network, the Yangtze River Economic Network, and UNPAN-AP (the United Nations Public Administration Network- The Asia& Pacific Center) as well as one bi-annual forum “Global City Informatization Forum” (hosted since 2012).

Founded in October 1978, this institute was formerly named as“The Institute of Academic Information”, and renamed as the Institute of Information Science in December 1992. Now there are 40 faculty members, including 4 research fellows and 11 associate research fellows.

As Shanghai Academy of Social Sciences was selected as one of the 25 national high-end think tanks in 2016, the Institute of Information put its top mission of “building a first class socialist think tank with international reputation” by focusing on studies on major national strategies and optimizing discipline allocation and research team building. The institute is engaged in reshaping its blueprint with studies on critical strategic information as its pillar; database construction as its platform; and various forums and think tank reports as its academic products.

The Institute is composed of 6 research Groups (including World Socialist Research Group, Information Security Research Group,Innovation Research Group, City Informatization Research Group,Big Data Research Group and Yangtze River Economic Belt Research Group) and 3 research centers( including “the Belt and Road”Information Research Center, Center of Internet Research, and Center for International Socialism).

The Institute publishes a variety of journals and think tank reports includingStudies on Foreign Social Sciences(since 1958),World Socialism Research Trends(since 2008),World Socialism Research Yearbook(since 2012),China Cyberspace Security Blue Book”(since2015),Blue Book of Global Digital Economy Development(since 2017),The Belt and Road Research Report(since 2017),Research on the Yangtze River Economic Belt(since 2017), andInternational Research Trends of Internet(since 2017).

The Institute of Information Science is habilitated to deliver master degrees in Information Science, Scientific Socialism and International Communist Movement, Cyberspace Governance and has doctoral program co-operated with the Institute of Applied Economics and the Institute of Chinese Marxism.

Address: 8th Floor, Building 2, 1610 Zhongshan (West) Road,Shanghai, 200335, China Tel: (021) 54908090 Fax: (021) 64286701 Email: xxs@sass.org.cn Website: http://www.sass.org.cn

信息研究所是上海社会科学院负责重大战略信息和社科学术信息汇集、分析的专业研究所，负责承建“丝路信息网”、“长江经济网”两大专业数据库和“联合国公共行政网”（亚太地区），承办两年一届的“全球城市信息化论坛”（2012年起承办）。

信息研究所成立于1978年10月，原名“学术情报研究所”，1992年12月更为现名。现有在编人员40人，其中研究员4名、副研究员11名。

2016年，在上海社会科学院入选25家国家高端智库建设试点单位的背景下，信息研究所紧紧围绕“建设国内一流、国际知名的社会主义新智库”这一发展目标，围绕党和国家的重大战略布局，优化学科配置和队伍建设，努力建设以重大战略情报信息研究为重点，以专业大数据库建设为依托，以各类论坛、智库报告为发布载体的新型情报信息研究体系。

设有6个研究室和3个院属研究中心。研究室有：世界社会主义研究室、信息安全研究室、科技创新研究室、城市信息化研究室、大数据研究室、长江经济带研究室。院属研究中心有：“一带一路”信息研究中心、互联网研究中心、国外社会主义研究中心。

拥有多种刊物和智库报告。包括：《国外社会科学前沿》（1958年创刊）、《世界社会主义研究动态》（2008年创刊）、《世界社会主义研究年鉴》（2012年创刊）、《中国网络空间安全蓝皮书》（2015年创刊）、《全球数字经济发展蓝皮书》（2017年创刊）、《一带一路研究要报》（2017年创刊）、《长江经济带研究要报》（2017年创刊）、《国际互联网研究动向》（2017年创刊）等。

信息研究所现拥有情报学、科学社会主义与国际共产主义运动史、网络空间治理专业等硕士学位授予权，并与本院的应用经济研究所、中国马克思主义研究所合作培养产业经济学、马克思主义中国化等领域的博士生。

联系方式：

地址：上海市中山西路1610号

社科国际创新基地2号楼8楼

邮编：200235

电话：（021）54908090

传真：（021）64286701

电子邮箱：xxs@sass.org.cn

网址：http://iis.sass.org.cn