The Inter-university Consortium for Political and Social Research (ICPSR) maintains and provides access to a vast archive of social science data for research and instruction (over 10,000 discrete studies and surveys with more than 65,000 datasets). ICPSR has been archiving data since 1962.
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Qualitative Data Repository
QDR selects, ingests, curates, archives, manages, durably preserves, and provides access to digital data used in qualitative and multi-method social inquiry. The repository develops and publicizes common standards and methodologically informed practices for these activities, as well as for the reusing and citing of qualitative data. Four beliefs underpin the repository’s mission:…
re3data.org
The Registry of Research Data Repositories (re3data.org) is a global registry of research data repositories that covers research data repositories from different academic disciplines. It presents repositories for the permanent storage and access of data sets to researchers, funding bodies, publishers and scholarly institutions. re3data.org promotes a culture of sharing, increased access…
Scan.R
Scan.R searches all Stata (.dta), SAS (.sas7bdat), and comma-separated values (.csv) files found in the specified directory for variables that may contain personally identifiable information (PII) using strings that commonly appear as part of variable names or labels that contain PII. (Note: Scan.R does not search labels in .csv files.) Results are…
Mendeley Data
Mendeley Data is a multidisciplinary, free-to-use open research data repository, where you can upload and share data files up to 10GB so they are archived, preserved and findable for the long-term. To ensure that research data stands the test of time, each version of a dataset is given a unique DOI, and permanently archived with DANS (Data…
Transparent and Open Social Science Research
Demand is growing for evidence-based policymaking, but there is also growing recognition in the social science community that limited transparency and openness in research have contributed to widespread problems. With this course created by BITSS, you can explore the causes of limited transparency in social science research, as well as tools to…
Free Statistical Consulting
The Center for Open Science offers free statistical and methodological consulting (sometimes with the help of BITSS). We answer questions and provide training on open and reproducible tools, methodologies, and workflows.
Manual of Best Practices
Manual of Best Practices, written by Garret Christensen (BITSS), is a working guide to the latest best practices for transparent quantitative social science research. The manual is also available, and occasionally updated on GitHub. For suggestions or feedback, contact garret@berkeley.edu.
AidGrade
AidGrade conducts open, real-time meta-analyses of impact evaluations on economic development programs. They collect results from impact evaluations and transparently synthesize them, building a database anyone can use.
Curate Science
Curate Science is a crowd-sourced platform to track, organize, and interpret replications of published findings in the social sciences. Curated replication study characteristics include links to PDFs, open/public data, open/public materials, pre-registered protocols, independent variables (IVs), outcome variables (DVs), replication type, replication design differences, and links to associated evidence collections that feature…
Github Training
GitHub training offers free and premium educational material from beginner to advance on GitHub.
Software Carpentry
Software Carpentry offers online tutorials for data analysis including Version Control with Git, Using Databases and SQL, Programming with Python, Programming with R and Programming with MATLAB.
Open Science Training Initiative
Open Science Training Initiative (OSTI), provides a series of lectures in open science, data management, licensing and reproducibility, for use with graduate students and postdoctoral researchers. The lectures can be used individually as one-off information lectures in aspects of open science, or can be integrated into existing course curriculum. Content, slides and advice…
Swirl
Swirl is a software package for the R programming language that turns the R console into an interactive learning environment. Users receive immediate feedback as they are guided through self-paced lessons in data science and R programming.
Data Science Certificate
Data Science Certificate offered on Coursera, is set of nine classes that cover the concepts and tools needed to analyze data starting with asking the right kinds of questions to making inferences and publishing results.
Reproducible Research
Reproducible Research taught by Roger D. Peng, Jeff Leek, and Brian Caffoof of Johns Hopkins University is a course on Coursera that teaches methods to organize data analysis so that it is reproducible and accessible to others. In this course students will learn to write a document using R markdown, integrate live R…
OpenIntro Statistics
OpenIntro Statistics is a free comprehensive 400 page online textbook and suite of educational material on statistics and data analysis.
Implementing Reproducible Research
Implementing Reproducible Research by Victoria Stodden, Friedrich Leisch, and Roger D. Peng covers many of the elements necessary for conducting and distributing reproducible research. The book focuses on the tools, practices, and dissemination platforms for ensuring reproducibility in computational science.
The Workflow of Data Analysis Using Stata
Stata by J. Scott Long, explains how to manage aspects of data analysis including cleaning data; creating, renaming, and verifying variables; performing and presenting statistical analyses and producing replicable results.
Political Science Replication
Political Science Replication is a blog about reproducibility, replication, pre-registration, research transparency and open peer review.
Replication Network
The Replication Network is a group of economists dedicated to promoting the practice of replication in the field of economics.
Replication Wiki
ReplicationWiki is a wiki-based service which lists and provides links to replications of empirical studies in economics, studies which have yet to be replicated, and material to assist with replication.
Impact Evaluation Replication Programme
International Initiative for Impact Evaluation (3ie) Replication Grant funds replications. Funding requests are reviewed on a rolling basis. High quality applicants are invited to submit full proposals.
Edawax
Edawax conducts meta-research on a variety of topics related to research practices – including an analysis of the data sharing policies of peer-reviewed journals – with the hope of 1) gaining the insight to identify the obstacles to performing replications and 2) using those insights to develop resources and infrastructure to facilitate…
EGAP Registry
The Evidence in Governance and Politics (EGAP) Registry focuses on designs for experiments and observational studies in governance and politics. The registry allows users to submit an array of information via an online form. Registered studies can be viewed in the form of a pdf on the EGAP site. The EGAP registry…
ClinicalTrials.gov
ClinicalTrials.gov is a registry and database that provides information on publicly and privately funded clinical trials, maintained by the National Library of Medicine at the National Institutes of Health. Studies are often submitted to the site when they begin and are regularly updated along the way. ClinicalTrials.gov is the largest trial registry,…
Promise and Perils of Pre-Analysis Plans
Promise and Perils of Pre-analysis Plans, by Ben Olken lays out many of the items to include in a pre-analysis plan, as well as their history, the benefits, and a few potential drawbacks. Pre-analysis plans can be especially useful in reaching agreement about what will be measured and how when a partner…
Reshaping Institutions
Reshaping Institutions is a paper by Katherine Casey, Rachel Glennerster, and Edward Miguel that uses a pre-analysis plan to analyze the effects of a community driven development program in Sierra Leone. They discuss the contents and benefits of a PAP in detail, and include a “cherry-picking” table that shows the wide flexibility…
Pre-Analysis Plan Template
Pre-analysis Plan Template, by Alejandro Ganimian, is useful for instructors when teaching transparency methods, and for researchers themselves when developing their own pre-analysis plan. Find a .doc version of this template here. Find a .tex version here.
Pre-Analysis Plan Checklist
Pre-analysis Plan Checklist, by David McKenzie, Lead Economist at the World Bank Development Research Group.
Experimental Lab Standard Operating Procedures
This standard operating procedure (SOP) document describes the default practices of the experimental research group led by Donald P. Green at Columbia University. These defaults apply to analytic decisions that have not been made explicit in pre-analysis plans (PAPs). They are not meant to override decisions that are laid out in PAPs.…
Standardized Disclosure Peer Review
A standard statement developed for peer review in psychology. “I request that the authors add a statement to the paper confirming whether, for all experiments, they have reported all measures, conditions, data exclusions, and how they determined their sample sizes. The authors should, of course, add any additional text to ensure the…
RStudio
RStudio is a popular and free user interface for R. R Markdown offers an easy way to implement dynamic documents, which are reproducible scripts that contain data, analysis, and nicely formatted outputs all in one file. For Stata users, dynamic documents can be created with Markdoc.
Git
Git is a free and widely-used version control system. It allows researchers to preserve, track, and revert to different versions of their project files in what are called Git Repositories. Software Carpentry offers useful tutorials for version control with Git. Github is a well-designed and popular host for Git repositories, and also…
Zotero
Zotero is the only research tool that automatically senses content in your web browser, allowing you to add it to your personal library with a single click. Whether you’re searching for a preprint on arXiv.org, a journal article from JSTOR, a news story from the New York Times, or a book from…