We’re delighted to introduce the first two social science papers that have been recently published in the social sciences section of the Research Data Journal for the Humanities and Social Sciences (RDJ), the social science section of which is edited by Louise Corti. Hosted by the publishing house Brill, the RDJ is published in collaboration with the Data Archiving and Network Services (DANS), and is a new peer-reviewed, online only, open access data journal, designed to comprehensively document and publish deposited datasets and to facilitate their online exploration. It was established by DANS in 2015.
The RDJ contains short publications (data papers) in which researchers describe their dataset: the context of their investigation of the problem and methods used. This is followed by an overall profile romania rcs data of the dataset, for example in terms of general characteristics or remarkable results. Conclusions as an ordinary scientific paper are not required, but there is room for concluding remarks. Readers can respond via a comments field to the content. One absolute requirement is that the data is deposited in a trusted repository, such as via DANS or the UK Data Service. Published data papers receive a persistent identifier (DOI).
The role of the data paper
Data papers are a relatively new venture for the humanities and social sciences, and we have had to work hard to show potential authors the value of them as a valuable output, to complement not only their own research publications, but to promote their published datasets. Peter Doorn of DANS and Chief Editor says that “The Research Data Journal will give researchers more credit for publishing data sets and provides an additional way to cite them via peer-reviewed articles”. Louise Corti, Director Collections Development and Data Publishing at the UK Data Service, and editor of the new Social Science section, adds that “RDJ contributes to transparency of research, accelerates dissemination and fosters reuse of scholarly data”.