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Open Research across Disciplines
How the principles of open research can be applied to your disciplineHistory
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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.
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)
- History resources (standards, databases, data policies) registered in FAIRsharing: https://fairsharing.org/browse/subject?term=History
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
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