Open Data

Data Management and Data Sharing in Psychological Science: Revision of the DGPs Recommendations

Providing access to research data collected as part of scientific publications and publicly funded research projects is now regarded as a central aspect of an open and transparent scientific practice and is increasingly being called for by funding …

Data policies of highly-ranked social science journals

By encouraging and requiring that authors share their data in order to publish articles, scholarly journals have become an important actor in the movement to improve the openness of data and the reproducibility of research. But how many social …

Data sharing in PLOS ONE: An analysis of Data Availability Statements

A number of publishers and funders, including PLOS, have recently adopted policies requiring researchers to share the data underlying their results and publications. Such policies help increase the reproducibility of the published literature, as well …

Deep Dive into Open Scholarship: Data, Materials, and Code Transparency

In this deep dive session, Dr. Willa van Dijk discusses how transparency with data, materials, and code is beneficial for educational research and education researchers. She illustrates these points by sharing experiences with transparency that were …

Dissemination and publication of research findings: an updated review of related biases

Objectives To identify and appraise empirical studies on publication and related biases published since 1998; to assess methods to deal with publication and related biases; and to examine, in a random sample of published systematic reviews, measures …

Finding & Evaluating Open Data

Introduction to finding and evaluating Open Data by NYU DataServices.

Funder Data-Sharing Policies: Overview and Recommendations

This report covers funder data-sharing policies/practices, and provides recommendations to funders and others as they consider their own policies. It was commissioned by Robert Wood Johnson Foundation in 2017. If any comments or questions, please …

Habits and perceptions regarding open science by researchers from Spanish institutions

The article describes the results of the online survey on open science (OS) carried out on researchers affiliated with universities and Spanish research centres and focused on open access to scientific publications, the publication process, the …

How to make data open? Stop overlooking librarians

Digital archivists are already experts at tackling the complex challenges of making research data open and accessible. We can help to smooth the transition.

Increasing value and reducing waste: addressing inaccessible research

The methods and results of health research are documented in study protocols, full study reports (detailing all analyses), journal reports, and participant-level datasets. However, protocols, full study reports, and participant-level datasets are …