Data Availability Policy

1. Data are important products of the scientific enterprise, and they should be preserved and be usable for decades in the future. Therefore, the International Review of Social History promotes, as an integral part of its publication policy, that data supporting the results in published papers are archived in an appropriate data archive, preferably with a Data Seal of Approval. Recommended data repositories are, for example, those listed by the International Federation of Data Organizations (IFDO) for Social Science.

2. Data to be archived can be quantitative and/or qualitative. Included can be data created in all current database, spreadsheet, word processing and statistical formats (a list of preferred file formats is available on the website of the Dutch data archive DANS.

3. When archiving in an appropriate data archive, data together with programs and scripts for computation are to be documented clearly and precisely to allow replication. We encourage authors to submit data prior to publication of the article, to enable inclusion of a reference to the data archiving in the published article.

4. By default, archiving in an appropriate data archive will imply open access and availability. Exceptions may be granted, especially for proprietary data. Authors will have to supply written information on the conditions and procedures by which these data may be obtained.