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By Mareike Buss

Looking for a place to publish your research data? Read about trusted data repositories that fulfill high-quality standards on information security and sustainability and support FAIR data publishing. 

Harvard Dataverse has been developed and is operated by Institute for Quantitative Social Science (IQSS) at Harvard University and allows for the publication of data in collections, so-called dataverses.

Dataverses can be personal, like Manuele Citi’s Dataverse, or they can be administrated by an organization, e.g. a journal or a research group. Researchers can use personal dataverses to publish their data and keep track of them via metrics on a personal site. They can publish data sets of up to 2.5 GB per record and 1 TB in total. Using Harvard Dataverse is freem of charge.   

CBS Library recommends using Harvard Dataverse for open data publishing only, i.e. data that other researchers can access for replication purposes or data reuse. Harvard Dataverse should not be used to publish restricted or closed data. 

FAIR data publishing
Harvard Dataverse supports FAIR data publishing as it helps you make your data Findable, Accessible, Interoperable, and Reusable. It makes data findable and citable by automatically assigning a Digital Object Identifier, a DOI, to all published data sets – and it also allows for the publication of different versions. It makes data accessible and reusable by attaching a machine-readable data license that specifies the terms of data access and re-use as defined by you. Finally, it supports data interoperability by publishing metadata that is compliant with widely recognized metadata standards. Find out more about FAIR data publishing on howtoFAIR.dk. 

Some recent examples of CBS-related data sets or reports published on Harvard Dataverse include: 

• Nielsen, Carsten S.; Sebald, Alexander C.; Sørensen, Peter N., 2023. “Replication data for: Testing for Salience Effects in Choices Under Risk”. Harvard Dataverse, V1: https://doi.org/10.7910/DVN/P1ZZY1.   
• DeMarzo, Peter; He, Zhiguo; Tourre, Fabrice, 2023. ”Replication Data for: Sovereign Debt Ratchets and Welfare Destruction”. Harvard Dataverse, V1: https://doi.org/10.7910/DVN/XRSOAC.  
• Egerod, Benjamin, 2023. “Replication Data for: The Revolving Door and Regulatory Enforcement: Firm-level Evidence on Tax Rates and Tax Audits”. Harvard Dataverse, V1: https://doi.org/10.7910/DVN/AFYKUH. 

By Claus Rosenkrantz Hansen

First Elsevier, then Wiley, and now Springer and Cambridge. All of them have entered into consortia agreements that allow CBS researchers to publish their research as Open Access at no cost.

To be eligible for free Open Access publishing with Springer and Cambridge, the following conditions need to be met:

• The manuscript needs to be accepted on:
  • Springer: 21^st  March 2023 or later
  • Cambridge: 1^st  January 2023 or later
• The manuscript needs to fall into one of the following categories:
  • Springer: Standard articles, usually presenting new results – also referred to as Original Research, Original Article, Original Paper, or Research Paper.
  • Cambridge: Research articles, review articles, rapid communications, brief reports, and case reports.
• The corresponding author must be affiliated with Copenhagen Business School (remember to use your organizational e-mail address).
• The journal must be covered by the agreement.

What to do as a researcher?
You will find more information on how to publish Open Access for free in Springer and Cambridge journals by accessing the individual publisher's author guidelines:

• Springer author guidelines
• Cambridge author guidelines

Even though the conditions of the agreements on the surface appear to be quite similar, there are differences, so always make sure to also the individual guidelines.

Journals covered by the agreement

• Springer: Springer, Palgrave, and Adis hybrid journals on SpringerLink, as well as Academic Journals on Nature.com. Check to see if a journal is eligible.
• Cambridge: Use the OA Waiver & Discount checker tool to check which subscription-based journals are covered by the agreement. NB. The Cambridge agreement only covers a limited number of articles per year.

If you wish to publish in one of the Springer or Cambridge full Open Access journals, you will need to pay an Article Processing Charge (APC).

For more information and for an overview of all publisher agreements, please visit the CBS Library Open Access Guide.

If you have any questions, please contact the CBS Library Open Access team at oa@cbs.dk.