A guide for social science journal editors on easing into open science
Priya Silverstein, Colin Elman, Amanda Kay Montoya, Barbara McGillivray, Charlotte R. Pennington, Chase H. Harrison, Crystal N. Steltenpohl, Jan Philipp Röer, Katherine S. Corker, Lisa Charron, Mahmoud Medhat Elsherif, Mario Malički, Rachel Hayes‐Harb, Sandra Grinschgl, Tess M. S. Neal, Thomas Rhys Evans, Veli‐Matti Karhulahti, William Leo Donald Krenzer, Anabel Belaus, David Moreau, Débora Inés Burín, Elizabeth Chin, Esther Plomp, Evan Mayo‐Wilson, Jared Lyle, Jonathan M. Adler, Julia G. Bottesini, Katherine M. Lawson, Kathleen Schmidt, Kyrani Reneau, Lars Vilhuber, Ludo Waltman, Morton Ann Gernsbacher, Paul E. Plonski, Sakshi Ghai, Sean Grant, Thu-Mai Lewis Christian, William Xiang Quan Ngiam, Moin Syed
Abstract
Journal editors have a large amount of power to advance open science in their respective fields by incentivising and mandating open policies and practices at their journals. The Data PASS Journal Editors Discussion Interface (JEDI, an online community for social science journal editors: www.dpjedi.org ) has collated several resources on embedding open science in journal editing ( www.dpjedi.org/resources ). However, it can be overwhelming as an editor new to open science practices to know where to start. For this reason, we created a guide for journal editors on how to get started with open science. The guide outlines steps that editors can take to implement open policies and practices within their journal, and goes through the what, why, how, and worries of each policy and practice. This manuscript introduces and summarizes the guide (full guide: https://doi.org/10.31219/osf.io/hstcx ).