Research Data Policy
The Open Gender Journal is committed to good scientific practice and follows the principles of Open Science. It aims to organise research according to the FAIR principles (openly accessible, findable, interoperable and reusable). The journal promotes an open research culture in line with the UNESCO Recommendations for Open Science, which state that research should be 'as open as possible':
“Access to scientific knowledge should be as open as possible, but sometimes access may need to be restricted, for example to protect human rights, confidentiality, intellectual property rights, personal information, threatened or endangered species, and sacred and secret indigenous knowledge. Open science encourages scientists to develop tools and methods for managing data so that as much data as possible can be shared, as appropriate.” (UNESCO-Empfehlungen für Open Science)
Data Availability Statements
Authors publishing research articles in the Open Gender Journal are asked to provide a 'Data Availability Statement' indicating whether, where and under what conditions the research material is available and can be reused. If research data or other research material cannot be published for reasons of data protection, research ethics or copyright, this can also be stated.
On this page, the Open Gender Journal provides suggested language for data availability statements. Please adapt these suggestions for your submission. Please specify what research material you are referring to (e.g. datasets, questionnaires, transcripts, observation protocols, audio/video/image material, literature databases, archival material, code). If none of the suggestions seem appropriate for your work, the Iowa University Libraries can provide additional language suggestions. Data availability statements can be placed at the end of the manuscript before the bibliography. Please contact the editors if you have any questions.
| Data availability | Sample language |
|---|---|
| Research material is available within the article or in an appendix. | The research material generated or analysed as part of this study is included in this article and/or in the appendix. |
| Research material is freely accessible in a repository or research data centre. | The research material used in this study is freely available in the repository/research data centre [name of repository/research data centre] under [DOI]. |
| Research material is available in a repository with restricted access. | The metadata of the research material analysed in this study are available in the repository/research data centre [name of repository/research data centre] under [DOI]. Release of the dataset can be requested from the authors under certain conditions [name of person holding rights, e-mail address]. |
| The research material has not been published and can be obtained from the authors. | The analysis in this study is based on self-collected research material. The research material can be requested from [name of corresponding author] if there is a legitimate interest. |
| The research material is not freely available. | The research material will not be published for ethical, privacy or other reasons. |
| not applicable | No research material was generated or analysed as part of this study. |
The chart above is adapted from this chart provided by Iowa University Libraries that is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution License (CC-BY).
