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Journal and Proceedings Spotlight

A few examples of data collections, conference hosting, and author-deposited research data. Many more journals work with Dataverse.

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Publishing your authors’ research data on Dataverse repositories increases your journal’s impact:

This guide recommends four ways journals can use Dataverse repositories. It applies to data repositories that help journals publish and archive their authors' data, including:

See our map of data repositories using the Dataverse Project software. Please review each repository's website for more information about who can publish data, fees and storage limits.

Have questions or need help using The Dataverse Project? Contact the Dataverse Project team or schedule a training. Our support team can lead trainings for you and your team virtually and in person.

Use a Dataverse repository for publishing your authors’ data and making it citable

We recommend four ways that journals can use Dataverse repositories to ensure that authors make data available and get credit for their research, with links to and from associated published articles.

Please note that the Dataverse Project is a data sharing platform. If your journal is seeking an indexing service for distributing research articles, we recommend the Social Science Sharing Network. Dataverse repositories may reserve the right to remove files and Dataverse collections that do not contain research data.

Set up a Journal Dataverse Collection

Within a Dataverse repository, your journal can create and customize its own space, making it easier to review, publish and track metrics for your authors' data. You can use this space to incorporate data publishing into common article publishing workflows:

  • When an article is accepted for publication, authors can be instructed to submit their data to your journal's customized space, called a Dataverse collection.
  • Once an author submits a dataset, the Dataverse repository sends a journal editor an email notification to review and publish the dataset .

You can also embed your Dataverse Collection on your journal's website, so visitors can search for and download datasets related to published articles without leaving the site.

For examples of how other journals are using their own Dataverse Collections to publish data, visit Palgrave Communications, Political Analysis, and Quarterly Journal of Economics on the Harvard Dataverse Repository, and State Politics & Policy Quarterly on the UNC Dataverse Repository.

How to Set Up Your Journal’s Dataverse Collection

Set up a Journal Dataverse Collection with data curation & verification

Journals interested in ensuring that datasets associated with their articles are replicable can set up a Dataverse collection. A third party curates and verifies the reproducibility of datasets that authors deposit. This service is currently offered by the UNC Odum Institute. Journals using their services include the American Journal of Political Science, which is hosted on the Harvard Dataverse Repository, and State Politics & Policy Quarterly, hosted on the UNC Dataverse Repository.

Contact the Odum Archive (odumarchive@unc.edu) for more information.

Integrate your journal's manuscript submission system with a Dataverse Repository

With a Dataverse repository integration, your authors can submit their manuscripts and research data at the same time, from the same platform, automatically creating persistent, bi-directional links between articles and their underlying data.

  • For journals that have data associated with their articles, any journal using the most common versions of Open Journal Systems (OJS) can use OJS's Dataverse Plugin to upload data to a Dataverse repository through the OJS platform.
  • For all other publishers and journal publishing systems interested in letting allows submit data through their systems, please contact us at support@dataverse.org about using Dataverse's SWORD API.

Recommend a Dataverse Repository to Authors

Include a Dataverse repository on your journal website as a recommended data repository for authors to deposit data and receive a formal scholarly data citation to include with their published article. See our map of known Dataverse repositories, including the Harvard Dataverse Repository, which researchers and journals from all disciplines can use to publish data.

Examples of journals and publishers recommending the Harvard Dataverse Repository for authors to deposit data include PLOS, American Heart Association Publications, Elsevier and Nature Scientific Data.

All 160 Journal Collections on Harvard Dataverse