Research Data Journal for the Humanities and Social Sciences

Research Data Journal for the Humanities and Social Sciences (RDJ) is a peer reviewed e-only open access journal, which is designed to comprehensively document and publish deposited data sets and to facilitate their online exploration. In this way it wants to contribute to transparency of research, accelerate dissemination and foster reuse.

The journal concentrates on the Humanities and Social Sciences, covering history, archaeology, language and literature in particular.

The publication languages are English and Dutch.

The RDJ contains data papers: scholarly publications of medium length (with a maximum of 2500 words) containing a non-technical description of a data set and putting the data in a research context. A data paper gets a persistent identifier and provides publication credits to the author, who is usually (but not necessarily) also the data depositor. Research Data Journal for the Humanities and Social Sciences is published in collaboration with Data Archiving and Networked Services (DANS).

The Research Data Journal for the Humanities and Social Sciences will appear twice annually.

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