APA Journals Program Collaborates with Center for Open Science to Advance Open Science Practices in Psychological Research
The American Psychological Association, the nonprofit publisher of 90 psychology journals, has entered a partnership with the Center for Open Science to offer open science badges to authors, create an APA data repository to ease sharing and designate a preferred preprint server for APA journal articles.
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APA’s journals program also supports open science badges, offered to authors who choose to share their data or materials or pre-register studies in an effort to promote transparency in scientific research. Three APA-published journals have begun awarding the badges, and more are expected to follow, according to APA Journals Publisher Rose Sokol-Chang, PhD.
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APA’s data repository will be hosted by the Center for Open Science’s Open Science Framework. This repository will help researchers work on a project privately, with a limited number of collaborators, or allow them to make parts of or their entire project publicly accessible. The repository will store and archive research data, protocols and materials, with data being made open once it is published in an APA journal.
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To earn badges, authors must report that they have placed data and other materials related to an article on a qualifying repository, or that they have pre-registered their research design.
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What are Open Science Badges?
– Badges to acknowledge open science practices are incentives for researchers to share data, materials, or to preregister.
– Badges signal to the reader that the content has been made available and certify its accessibility in a persistent location.
