The Project PsyCuraDat - Development of user-oriented curation criteria for psychological research data

Project description

In the context of the omnipresent Open Science Movement, all stakeholders in psychological research (i.e. researchers, journals, and funders) increasingly strive for more transparency in order to foster scientific exchange and the quality of scientific work. However, to reach this overarching goal of the Open Science Movement, there is a need for discipline-specific documentation standards not only for research articles, but also for the data representing the basis of those articles. Against this background, the project „PsyCuraDat: Development of user-oriented curation criteria for psychological research data“, which is funded by the Federal Ministry of Education and Research (BMBF), pursues two strategic objectives:

1. To meet researchers’ needs in their role as data users, the project aims at developing a documentation standard for psychological research data considering the discipline specific methods relevant for reusing these data.

2. To meet researchers’ needs in their role as contributors of research data, the project aims at developing a documentation standard considering determinants defined by the research process as well as by funders and journals. 

Working towards these two strategic goals, PsyCuraDat generally aims at promoting research economy and research integrity in Psychology by enabling a more effective and efficient documentation and reuse of psychological research data.