Resources

General Resources

• Overview guide on open access in Political Science. open-access.network: Open Access in Political Science
• Article about open research. https://www.samuelmoore.org/2019/07/16/why-open-science-is-actually-pretty-good-politics/
• Elman, C., Kapiszewski, D., and Lupia, A. (2018). Transparent social inquiry: implications for political science. Annual Review of Political Science. https://doi.org/10.1146/annurev-polisci-091515-025429 
• Journal Editors Transparency Statement (JETS). https://politicalbehavior.wordpress.com/2015/11/11/statement-on-da-rt-and-the-jets/
• Move towards open access in Politics. https://scholarlykitchen.sspnet.org/2019/12/16/politics-and-open-access/
• Symposium on ‘Opening Political Science’. A collection of seven short articles on open research in political and other social science. https://www.cambridge.org/core/journals/ps-political-science-and-politics/special-collections/opening-political-science
• 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
• Wuttke, A. (2018). Why Too Many Political Science Findings Cannot Be Trusted and What We Can Do About It: A Review of Meta-Scientific Research and a Call for Academic Reform. Polit Vierljahresschr, 60, 1-19. https://doi.org/10.1007/s11615-018-0131-7 
• Basile, L., Blair, A., & Buckley, F. (2023). Research transparency and openness. European Political Science, 22(2), 177–181. https://doi.org/10.1057/s41304-023-00424-x
• Bowers, J. (2011). Six steps to a better relationship with your future self. The Political Methodologist, 18(2), 2–8.  10.4067/S0718-090X2016000300011
• Bowers, J., & Voors, M. (2016). How to improve your relationship with your future self. Revista Ciencia Política, 36(3), 829–848. https://doi.org/10.4067/S0718-090X2016000300011
• Brodeur, A., Esterling, K., Ankel-Peters, J., Bueno, N. S., Desposato, S., Dreber, A., Genovese, F., Green, D. P., Hepplewhite, M., Hoces de la Guardia, F., Johannesson, M., Kotsadam, A., Miguel, E., Velez, Y. R., & Young, L. (2024). Promoting reproducibility and replicability in political science. Research & Politics, 11(1). https://doi.org/10.1177/20531680241233439
• Closa, C. (2021). Planning, implementing and reporting: Increasing transparency, replicability and credibility in qualitative political science research. European Political Science, 20(2), 270–280. https://doi.org/10.1057/s41304-020-00299-2
• Dyrstad, K., & Moses, J. W. (2023). Big data meets open political science: An empirical assessment of transparency standards 2008–2019. European Political Science, 22(2), 182–201. https://doi.org/10.1057/s41304-022-00396-4 
• Scoggins, B., & Robertson, M. P. (2023). Measuring transparency in the social sciences: Political science and international relations (Working Paper 14; I4R Discussion Paper Series). Institute for Replication (I4R). http://hdl.handle.net/10419/268345  

Open Methods

• Open Methods Framework for open observational science. https://osf.io/preprints/metaarxiv/udfs9/
• Approaches to Open Research for Researchers Using Qualitative Methods. https://doi.org/10.33774/apsa-2019-if2he-v2
• Alvarez, R. M., & Heuberger, S. (2022). How (not) to reproduce: Practical considerations to improve research transparency in political science. PS: Political Science & Politics, 55(1), 149–154. https://doi.org/10.1017/S1049096521001062 

Open Data

• Harvard dataverse is an open access data repository. It holds open access data, associated with Research and Politics, an open access publication, published by Sage. https://dataverse.harvard.edu/dataverse/researchandpolitics
• Research guide for finding datasets. Databases – Political Science & International Relations – LibraryGuides at Creighton University
• Open political science datasets. https://www.poliscidata.com/pages/internationalRelations.php
• Open public policy digital publication resource. https://www.openaccessgovernment.org
• Open access Political Science articles.
  • https://www.cambridge.org/core/journals/british-journal-of-political-science/open-access
  • https://link.springer.com/search?search-within=Journal&facet-journal-id=41304&package=openaccessarticles
• Human Rights dataset. http://www.humanrightsdata.com/p/data-documentation.html
• Political Science resources (standards, databases, data policies) registered in FAIRsharing: https://fairsharing.org/browse/subject?term=Political%2520Science 

Open Outputs

• Political Research Exchange (PRX) offers a dynamic platform to advance research, innovation and debate across the breadth of political science. With significant subsidies on the normal upfront costs of Open Access, PRX signals a commitment of the European Consortium for Political Research as a scholarly association to forging a cogent path for the research community at this crucial juncture when academic publishing is becoming fundamentally transformed. https://www.tandfonline.com/action/journalInformation?show=aimsScope&journalCode=prxx20
• Preprint repositories.
  • https://preprints.apsanet.org/engage/apsa/public-dashboard
  • https://osf.io/preprints/socarxiv
  • https://mediarxiv.org/discover
  • https://www.gesis.org/en/ssoar/home
• Open access journals for Political Science.
  • https://www.longdom.org/political-sciences-public-affairs.html
  • https://www.degruyter.com/view/journals/openps/openps-overview.xml
• Open access journals for Politics.
  • https://www.cogitatiopress.com/politicsandgovernance
  • https://journals.sagepub.com/home/rap
• Open access journal for International Studies.
  • https://www.jois.eu
  • https://www.tandfonline.com/loi/cisp20
  • https://academic.oup.com/ia

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