Replication Datasets to be Listed in the Policy Currents

A proposal submitted by Gary King, Harvard University that we think is a great idea!

An increasing number of political science journals, book presses, and granting organizations are requiring authors to add a footnote to publications indicating in which public archive they will deposit the information necessary to replicate their numerical results, and the date when it will be submitted (or an explanation if the data cannot be archived). In order to encourage these contributions to the scholarly community, Policy Currents will provide authors writing in this field some additional visibility by listing a brief citation to their "replication dataset", and the corresponding publication for which it was created, in our next issue. Just send us a letter listing your publication and dataset and we will be sure to include it in the next Policy Currents.

Two of the archives willing to accept replication datasets include the Social Science Research Archive collection of the Public Affairs Video Archive (PAVA) at Purdue University and the "Class V collection" at the Interuniversity Consortium for Political and Social Research (ICPSR) at the University of Michigan. Both archives will forever keep and distribute replication datasets and make them known to others.

In order to submit the data, put it on a disk or tape and mail it to PAVA (Director; Public Affairs Video Archive; Purdue University; 1000 Liberal Arts Building; West Lafayette, Indiana 47907-1000) and/ or the ICPSR (Director, User Support; ICPSR; P.O. Box 1248; Ann Arbor, Michigan 48106). An easier approach is to put your data in a self-extracting archive file (with a utility such as PKZIP for the DOS operating system, TAR for Unix, or StuffIt for the MacIntosh) and submit it via anonymous FTP; you should also announce the file name, and article, book, dissertation citation in an accompanying electronic mail message. To send to PAVA: FTP to PAVA.PURDUE.EDU in directory PUB/INCOMING and send electronic mail to INFO@PAVA.PURDUE.EDU. To submit to the ICPSR: FTP to FTP.ICPSR.UMICH.EDU in directory PUB/ INCOMING and send electronic mail to JAN@TDIS.ICPSR.UMICH.EDU.

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