New ethics guidelines for data Access & research transparency

The current issue of PS: Political Science & Politics (Vol 47, Issue 1) is devoted to reproducibility, replication and data access. In eight articles, political scientists discuss the need for better quality standards in qualitative and quantitative research. This blog will publish a series of posts on the main points, starting with observations on the current state of reproducibility by Arthur Lupia and Colin Elman.

Quality checks in data repositories – how feasible?

I recently posted a list of data repositories that facilitate reproducibility. I now came across a specialized data archive at Yale. This one seems different: it aims at verifying code and data that are submitted. Is such quality control feasible?