Open science involves sharing research methods and results throughout the life cycle of a project. As a group, we are keen to establish and promote as many open science practises as possible, and are committed to open science principles. Below you will find information about the Lifespan Lab’s open science practises, links to relevant databases, and additional resources to learn more about the principles of open science.
Open Access
As a lab, we will create an Open Science Framework (OSF) page for each of our forthcoming projects, and OSF pages for many of our past projects can be found linked below. For all future projects, we aim to create an OSF project, to include the preregistration for each study, publicly available data and analysis code, and when possible, a copy of our experiment.
OSF| Lifespan Lab, University of Stirling
Whenever possible, we aim to publish research papers Open Access. Additionally, the Stirling Online Research Repository (STORRE) holds a continually growing collection of the full text research outputs of University of Stirling authors which can be accessed for free. This includes published journal articles, conference papers, book chapters, working papers, etc. The aim of STORRE is to encourage open access, and this repository will continue to develop as an important source of free full text access to our research.
You can click on the collections below to explore our work. Collections can be filtered by Author, Subject and Date to find specific resources.
- Psychology Collection
This community contains the ePrints and eTheses of the Psychology staff and students. - Faculty of Natural Sciences Collection
This community contains the ePrints and eTheses of the Faculty of Natural Sciences‘ staff and students
Pre-prints
In the future, we plan to upload preprints of all forthcoming submissions by lab members on PsyArXiv. Some existing preprints for forthcoming studies can be found here.
Open data and code
Various stimulus sets and experimental code supporting various papers can be found on our Github sites
Additional Resources
Below is short list of some tools and resources that could be useful for transitioning to more open and reproducible science.
- The Open Science Knowledge Base holds an annotated collection of practical resources
for researchers interested in using open practices.Some of these include:- Spellman, Gilbert, & Corker (2017) provide practical, actionable advice for Open Science: What, Why, and How
- Crüwell et al. (2018) have put together 8 Easy Steps to Open Science, an annotated reading list.
- A user-friendly introduction to GitHub with presentations and exercises.