Manuscript or publication

Overview

Questions

• How do I include a description of the problem definition, research design, data collection and methods used in my publication package?

Objectives

• Include the published (or accepted) manuscript or publication in your package

Infographic snippet: Must include a brief description of the problem definition, research design, data collection (sampling, selection and representativeness of informants) and methods used

Let’s now continue chronologically with number 1 in our list of publication package components.

Steps to take

• According to the instructions in the Guideline for the archiving of academic research for Faculties of Behavioural and Social Sciences in the Netherlands (p. 8) you should include the published (or accepted) manuscript or publication in your package.
• Additionally, it is stated that you “must include a brief description of the problem definition, research design, data collection (sampling, selection and representativeness of informants) and methods used. An electronic version of the published manuscript will generally suffice.”
  • Check that your manuscript contains this information.
• Make sure the manuscript is saved in a sustainable file format, most likely a .pdf.
• In case your manuscript is not yet finished or accepted, wait with including the manuscript until the publication is accepted and/or finalized.

Example file

See the manuscript_rsos_20230401.pdf file from the EUR publication package example repository on Zenodo (note that this is a mock publication)

Figure: Manuscript from the EUR publication package example