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Open Research across Disciplines
How the principles of open research can be applied to your disciplineQualitative Research
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Examples of open research practices
Open Data: “The Qualitative Data Repository (QDR) is a dedicated archive for storing and sharing digital data (and accompanying documentation) generated or collected through qualitative and multi-method research in the social sciences.” (https://qdr.syr.edu)
Open Data: Interview transcript data, meeting transcript data. For example, “The Language Technology Group [from the University of Copenhagen] work with transcript data from the Danish Parliament. They publish their data, the Danish Parliament Corpus (2009-2017), in a FAIR (Findable, Accessible, Interoperable, Reusable) way in CLARIN-DK. Having FAIR data is essential to their field, because without freely accessible data they could not perform their research”. (https://howtofair.dk/how-to-fair/#humanities)
Resources
General Resources
- Kapiszewski, D., and Karcher, S. (2019). Transparency in Practice in Qualitative Research. PS: Political Science & Politics, 1-7. https://doi.org/10.33774/apsa-2019-if2he-v2
- Haven, T. L., and Van Grootel, L. (2019). Preregistering qualitative research. Accountability in Research, 26 (3), 229–244. https://doi.org/10.1080/08989621.2019.1580147
- Haven, T. L., Errington, T. M., Gleditsch, K., van Grootel, L., Jacobs, A. M., Kern, F., … Mokkink, L. (2020, July 6). Preregistering Qualitative Research: A Delphi Study. https://doi.org/10.31235/osf.io/pz9jr
- Qualitative Research Pre-registration Template. https://osf.io/b6xmd/
- Chauvette, A., Schick-Makaroff, K., and Molzahn, A. E. (2019). Open data in qualitative research. International Journal of Qualitative Methods, 18. https://doi.org/10.1177/1609406918823863
- Mannheimer, S., Pienta, A., Kirilova, D., Elman, C., and Wutich, A. (2019). Qualitative data sharing: Data repositories and academic libraries as key partners in addressing challenges. American Behavioural Scientist, 63(5), 643-664. https://doi.org/10.1177/0002764218784991
- Qualitative Transparency Deliberations (QTD). https://www.qualtd.net/
- Annotation for Transparency Inquiry (ATI). https://www.cambridge.org/core/services/authors/annotation-for-transparent-inquiry-ati
- Paper on qualitative methods for researching teachers’ (re)use of open educational resources. http://oro.open.ac.uk/37408/
- Webinar on the Theory and Practice of Transparent Qualitative Health Research https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DKkExQfwqpU
- Pownall, M. (2022). Is replication possible for qualitative research?. https://doi.org/10.31234/osf.io/dwxeg
- Karhulahti, V. (2022). Registered reports for qualitative research. Nature Human Behaviour, 6(1), 4-5. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41562-021-01265-8
- Stegenga, S. M., Steltenpohl, C. N., Lustick, H., Meyer, M. S., Renbarger, R., Standiford Reyes, L., & Lee, L. E. (2023). Qualitative research at the crossroads of open science and big data: Ethical considerations. Social and Personality Psychology Compass. https://doi.org/10.1111/spc3.12912
Open Methods
- Pre-Analysis Plans for qualitative research. http://www.redalyc.org/pdf/324/32449207009.pdf
- Malterud, K., Siersma, V. D., and Guassora, A. D. (2015). Sample Size in Qualitative Interview Studies: Guided by Information Power. Qualitative Health Research, 26(13). https://doi.org/10.1177%2F1049732315617444
Open Data
- Slides from UKDA presentation entitled “Sharing qualitative data: challenges and opportunities”. https://www.ukdataservice.ac.uk/media/604758/sharingqualdata_lancu_lb_5apr2017.pdf
- Qualitative data repository for storing and sharing digital data (and accompanying documentation) generated or collected through qualitative and multi-method research in the social sciences. https://qdr.syr.edu/
- UKDA text anonymisation tool for qualitative data sharing. http://data-archive.ac.uk/curate/standards-tools/tools
- UK dataservice list of qualitative and mixed methods data. https://www.ukdataservice.ac.uk/get-data/key-data/qualitative-and-mixed-methods-data.aspx
- Qualitative Data Repository. https://qdr.syr.edu/
- Voice, Representation, Relationships: Report of the Open Qualitative Research Working Group (2022) – From Cambridge – https://doi.org/10.17863/CAM.91979
Open Outputs
- Annotation for Transparent Inquiry (ATI). Tool to annotate passages in an article, to amplify the text / link to data sources https://qdr.syr.edu/ati
- Mannheimer, S., Pienta, A., Kirilova, D., Elman, C., and Wutich, A. (2019). Qualitative data sharing: Data repositories and academic libraries as key partners in addressing challenges. American Behavioral Scientist, 63(5), 643-664. https://doi.org/10.1177/0002764218784991
These pages are 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 (2026 edition). https://osf.io/preprints/osf/3r8hb_v2