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Contents

  • 1 Open Research across Disciplines
  • 2 History
    • 2.1 Case Studies
    • 2.2 Examples of open research practices
  • 3 Resources
      • 3.0.1 General Resources
      • 3.0.2 Open Methods
      • 3.0.3 Open Data
      • 3.0.4 Open Outputs

Open Research across Disciplines

How the principles of open research can be applied to your discipline

History

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Case Studies

University of Reading case study: Surgery and Selfhood

Examples of open research practices

Open Methods: The Institute of Historical Research (IHR) has continuously played a vital role in ensuring open access of history publications with three of their book series having recently gained open access. Meanwhile, they raise awareness on open research by educating current historians via workshops, thus creating discussion opportunities.

(https://www.history.ac.uk/publications/open-access)

Resources

General Resources

  • IHR’s open access policy and aims. https://www.history.ac.uk/publications/open-access
  • The Programming Historian. https://programminghistorian.org/

Open Methods

IHR’s list of open access resources. https://www.history.ac.uk/library/collections/online-resources/open-access-resources

Open Data

  • Archaeology Dataset. https://openarchaeologydata.metajnl.com/articles/10.5334/joad.57/
  • Archaeology Data Service. https://archaeologydataservice.ac.uk/
  • Data and Data Sharing. Course: Module 1: Introduction, Topic: About the Tutorial (sas.ac.uk)

Open Outputs

  • Royal Historical Society guide to open access. https://royalhistsoc.org/early-career-historians/open-access/
  • Preprint repository. https://osf.io/preprints/socarxiv
  • Open Access Journals
    • https://www.cambridge.org/core/journals/historical-journal/open-access
    • https://www.journals.uchicago.edu/journals/jmh/open

 

This page is adapted and extended from: Farran, E. K., Silverstein, P., Ameen, A. A., Misheva, I., & Gilmore, C. (2020, December 15). Open Research: Examples of good practice, and resources across disciplines. https://doi.org/10.31219/osf.io/3r8hb

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