Checklist

Table of contents
  1. Running an experiment
  2. Sharing data
  3. Pre-printing
  4. Publishing
  5. University’s Open Access checklist

Running an experiment

  • If you created stimuli, have you described your manipulations?
  • If you adapted stimuli, have you credited the creators?
  • For your stimuli, have you provided an accessible file with metadata?
  • Have you outlined the steps you took while running your experiment so that others may replicate?
  • Have you applied for ethical approval prior to data collection?
  • Have you pre-registered your analyses?
  • Depending on your type of experiment, have you considered a registered report?

Sharing data

  • Have you removed sensitive data or personal identifiers?
  • Have you prepped your data files in a commonly-accessible format (preferably CSV)?
  • Have you documented your column names in a metafile?
  • Have you explained what the values mean in a metafile?
  • Have you explained how the data was collected, in a metafile/repo documentation/associated manuscript, in a way that someone else can replicate this procedure?
  • Have you stored the data in an open and safe (preferably permanent) place?
  • If publishing data with a paper, have you linked the paper clearly?
  • Have you included a license for your data? (for information on licensing, see Data Licensing )

Pre-printing

  • Have you included an OSF/Github/repo link in your manuscript?
  • If you worked with human participants/data, have you explicitly stated whether you had ethics approval?
  • Have you included the ethics approval code?

Publishing

  • Have you checked whether your journal of choice offers open access publication?
  • Have you checked whether your funder requires a certain level of open access publication?
  • If you wish to pre-print, does your journal of choice accept previously pre-printed manuscripts?
  • Have you included an OSF/Github/repo link in your manuscript?

University’s Open Access checklist