Catalogue of Open Research Practices in the Arts, Humanities, and Social Sciences

Practices are ways of doing, thinking, or making that shape how knowledge is produced and shared. They emerge as much through habit, collaboration, and context as from set rules, disciplines, or institutional expectations. This catalogue was created in 2025-6 as part of the MORPHSS (Materialising Open Research in the Humanities and Social Sciences) research project. It is designed as a living, iterative, and collaborative showcase of open research practices within the arts, humanities, and social sciences disciplines.

PRACTICES

11 examples

Academic/Scholarly Podcasting

 3 examples

Annotation for Transparent Inquiry

 2 examples

Applying the CARE Principles to Data from Marginalised Communities

 12 examples

Authorship (Collective, Collaborative or Communal)

 4 examples

Co-production

 7 examples

Collaborative Translation (Co-translation, Collaborative translation, Community translation, Collective translation, or Commoning translation)

 4 examples

Community-Based Participatory Research

 3 examples

Data Papers

 3 examples

Digital Enumerative Bibliography

 3 examples

Documenting and Disseminating Failure

 4 examples

Experimental Longform Publishing (Multivocal, Combinatorial, or Epistolary Monographs)

 10 examples

Linked Open Data

 3 examples

Member Checking / Member Sharing

 11 examples

Open Documentation of Creative Methods

 3 examples

Open Documentation of Methods

 3 examples

Open Longform Scholarship

 4 examples

Open Materials

 4 examples

Open Peer Review

 4 examples

Participatory Action Research (PAR)

 3 examples

Positionality (Foregrounding of)

 4 examples

Pre-registering Qualitative Research

 3 examples

Preprints and Working Papers

 17 examples

Public Scholarship

 3 examples

Reflexivity

 3 examples

Research-Practice Partnerships

 12 examples

Sharing Creative Practice Outputs

 3 examples

Sharing Creatively Refigured Data

 3 examples

Sharing Ethically Fabricated Data

 3 examples

Sharing Qualitative Data

 15 examples

Virtual Exhibitions