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How to submit

Please use the PsychArchives Submission Assistant to contribute your Digital Research Objects (DROs): https://pasa.psycharchives.org.

Here you can upload your files, choose a sharing level and enrich the files with relevant metadata. Please make sure to take into account our quality and technical guidelines concerning recommended file formats.

All submissions to PsychArchives undergo a formal evaluation through the PsychArchives team to ensure the basic fit of content and quality of metadata but are not subjected to any editorial review or peer review process. If your submission adheres to our guidelines, we will include it in PsychArchives and send you the final DOI(s). Submissions to PsychArchives are usually formally checked within one to two working days. Working days are Monday to Friday, excluding German national holidays.

PsychArchives covers content that belongs to the discipline of psychology or related disciplines. A list of PsychArchives DRO types can be found in the DRO type overview. You are welcome to contribute several DROs belonging together, such as a scholarly manuscript plus the corresponding research data and analysis code. The DROs are assigned a DRO type, respectively, and then linked together in PsychArchives. In this way, users can easily identify the whole DRO bundle.

To learn more about the submission of supplementary materials for a journal article, please consult our Submission guidelines for supplementary materials in PsychArchives.

Please note that DROs are ideally deposited in their final state. If you decide to make any changes to your files after publication in PsychArchives, we usually generate a new version of your DRO for you. Read more about this policy in our FAQs.

If you would like to publish large data volumes (> 1 GB), please have a look at our service catalog for larger DROs (research data or any other DRO type: https://rdc-psychology.org/en/service-catalog-rdm), and get in touch with us via email.

Reviewer link functionality

PsychArchives offers the option of anonymizing content and sharing it only with peer-reviewers before archiving it. Upon submission to PsychArchives, you may request a reviewer link for your DRO. The submission will then remain on the PsychArchives submission platform for the time being. Reviewer links are intended for the peer-review process. Having been assigned a reviewer link, the contribution will be accessible to anyone with whom the reviewer link is shared. This feature is currently available for all DRO types except preregistrations.

Your submission will be anonymized by default, i.e. relevant metadata will be veiled. Please ensure that your files do not contain any identifying information. After receiving the reviewer link, you will be able to switch anonymization, revise, delete or publish your contribution in PsychArchives.

Please bear in mind that reviewer links are not Persistent Identifiers (DOIs). After the peer-review process has ended, please get a DOI for your submission by depositing your content in PsychArchives for the long term. While we ask you to choose a Sharing Level and license for your DRO(s) before requesting a reviewer link, content can only be provided to others for re-use when it is published in PsychArchives and assigned a DOI. You should make sure that the DOI (instead of the reviewer link) is referenced in your final journal article.

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