A Guide for Social Science Journal Editors on Easing into Open Science
DOI:
https://doi.org/10.70705/ppp.dsei.2024.v02.i02.pp135-146Keywords:
Open science, Journal editing, Scholarly publishing, Peer reviewAbstract
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 embed‑ ding 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).