Supplementary Material Guidelines

Methodology uses PsychArchives for archiving Supplementary Material. PsychArchives is a disciplinary repository preserving a variety of digital research objects (DROs), with various different publication types (preprints, primary, and secondary publications), research data, tests, preregistrations, multimedia and code. It provides easy and free access to DROs according to the FAIR principles, which implies the commitment to ensure that research and research data are findable, accessible, interoperable, and reusable.

To fulfill the submission criteria for PsychArchives:

  • Confirm in your cover letter that you and your co-authors agree to publish these materials in the PsychArchives repository under a CC-BY 4.0 license (the same license as used for the article).
  • Provide a short description of the contents of your supplementary materials (it will be used for the "Supplementary Materials" section of the article linking to the repository).
  • Provide a single guide (preferable as PDF/A) to all your files, data and code (please refer to our documentation tutorial for in detail guidance on ensuring the reuseability of your materials).

PsychArchives offers the following benefits:

  • Permanent availability and linkage with article: Providing access to supplementary material via PsychArchives will guarantee the future availability as well as the linkage of the material and the article. PsychArchives is a product of ZPID - Leibniz Institute for Psychology. ZPID is an Open Science Institute for psychological research (founded in 1971), which is funded by the German federal and state governments. Therefore, ZPID is not vulnerable to commercial risks.
  • Persistent identifier (DOI) to the PsychArchives submission: Every submission on PsychArchives is provided with a DOI.
  • Comprehensive enrichment with metadata: Every PsychArchives submission is comprehensively enriched with metadata which increases online discoverability.
  • Strict user guidelines enforce quality standards: Our detailed metadata and user guidelines have been explicitly developed to avoid that PsychArchives becomes just another online dump for unspecified research related files. Comprehensible documentation shall ensure the re-usability of the provided data.
  • Integration of PsychArchives in the complete spectrum of (free-to-use) ZPID products: ZPID offers and develops free-to-use products to support psychologists during the whole research process (see https://leibniz-psychology.org/en/).