Post45 Data Collective

https://data.post45.org/

Board Member

Dan Sinykin, Assistant Professor of English, Emory University (Editor)

Laura B. McGrath, Assistant Professor of English and Digital Humanities, Temple University

(Editor)

The Post45 Data Collective peer reviews and houses post-1945 literary data on an open-access website designed, hosted, and maintained by Emory University’s Center for Digital Scholarship.

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.

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.