Post45 data collective
The Post45 Data Collective peer reviews and houses literary and cultural data from 1945 to the present on an open-access website designed, hosted, and maintained by Emory University’s Center for Digital Scholarship.
Terms of use
These terms have been derived from Dataverse Project’s recommendations for best practices in academic credit and data citation.
Data Citation
The Post45 Data Collective standardizes the citation of datasets to make it easier for researchers to publish their data and get credit as well as recognition for their work. When you create a dataset in the Post45 Data Collective, As an open-access framework and research data repository the Post45 Data Collective is committed to helping researchers, journals, and organizations make humanities data accessible, reusable, and open (when possible), which includes implementing community accepted standards for data publication.
The citation standard defined here offers proper recognition to authors as well as permanent identification through the use of global, persistent identifiers in place of URLs, which can change frequently.
Academic Credit
By depositing data into the Post45 Data Collective, researchers make their datasets more discoverable to the scholarly community.
By increasing research data’s visibility with the Post45 Data Collective, researchers can get recognition and proper academic credit for their scholarly work through a data citation. These citations also help ensure that when research data is published, funder and publisher requirements are met, and data is reused by other scholars, replicated for verification, and tracked to measure usage and impact over time, which can help fund future research.
A data citation in the Post45 Data Collective has seven components:
- author name(s)
- date published in the Post45 repository
- title
- global persistent identifier: DOI
- Post45 Data Collective
- version number
Example replication data citation from The Program Era Project, Kelly, White, and Glass, 2021:
Kelly, Nicholas; White, Nicole, Glass, Loren, 03/01/2021, “The Program Era Project,” DOI:TBD, Post45 Data Collective, V1.
The EditorS
Dan Sinykin, Assistant Professor of English, Emory University
Melanie Walsh, Assistant Professor, Information School at the University of Washington
The Editorial board
Katherine Bode, Professor of Literary and Textual Studies, ANU
J.D. Connor, Associate Professor of Cinematic Arts, USC
Jennifer Doty, Research Data Librarian, Emory
Lauren F. Klein, Associate Professor of English and Quantitative Theory and Methods, Emory
Laura B. McGrath, Assistant Professor of English and Digital Humanities, Temple University
Thomas Padilla, Director of Information Systems and Technology Strategy, Center for Research Libraries
Kenton Rambsy, Assistant Professor of African American Literature and Digital Humanities, UT-Arlington
Richard Jean So, Assistant Professor of English, McGill
Lindsay Thomas, Associate Professor of English, Cornell University
the project team
Bailey Betik, Digital Publication Specialist, Emory Center for Digital Scholarship
Sara Palmer, Digital Text Specialist, Emory Center for Digital Scholarship
The Post45 Data Collective is supported and maintained by the Emory Center for Digital Scholarship.
