Open Criminology

Open Criminology — Call for Recommendations

Purpose

This Curation Hub, Open Criminology, will magnify outputs useful to understanding and participating in open criminology. The Curators especially welcome nominations for outputs other than papers and books, such as datasets, software code, educational resources, and so on.

People

This Hub is supported by CrimRxiv Consortium, with extra support from our Member, Knowledge Futures. The Curators are appointed-liaisons and -alumni of Consortium Members, led by Scott Jacques.

Process

Anyone may nominate a work for inclusion on this Hub. Your nomination should include the work’s bibliographic details; and, an abstract-length explanation of why it should be included on this Hub.

Product

The Curators’ selected works will be featured on this page. If your nomination is selected, and you were the first to nominate the work, you’ll be given credit and the opportunity to publish your explanation.

Curation Hubs

CrimRxiv Consortium

Knowledge Futures, creator of PubPub

Sci-Hub provides access to nearly all scholarly literature

by Daniel S Himmelstein, Ariel Rodriguez Romero, Jacob G Levernier, Thomas Anthony Munro, Stephen Reid McLaughlin, Bastian Greshake Tzovaras, and Casey S Greene

Published: Nov 19, 2024

The website Sci-Hub enables users to download PDF versions of scholarly articles, including many articles that are paywalled at their journal’s site. Sci-Hub has grown rapidly since its creation in 2011, but the extent of its coverage has been unclear. Here we report that, as ...

The Genesis of Library Genesis: The Birth of a Global Scholarly Shadow Library

by Balázs Bodó

Published: Sep 26, 2024

Digital librarianship—the digitization, collection, and cataloguing of texts—was one of the earliest uses of networked computers. By most accounts, the first digital library was Project Gutenberg, which began making public domain works available in 1971 via the Arpanet, the ...

Questionable research practices and open science in quantitative criminology

by Jason M. Chin, Justin T. Pickett, Simine Vazire, and Alex O. Holcombe

Published: Apr 15, 2024

Questionable research practices (QRPs) lead to incorrect research results and contribute to irreproducibility in science. Researchers and institutions have proposed open science practices (OSPs) to improve the detectability of QRPs and the credibility of science. We examine ...

Curation Hubs: A description and explanation of an initiative to advance open criminology

by Scott Jacques

Published: Mar 12, 2024

The CrimRxiv Consortium will advance open criminology (“open-crim”) with Curation Hubs: expert- and community-led Collections of already-published criminology outputs. Each Hub focuses on a criminological niche, showcasing its “best,” “exemplary,” or otherwise notable works. ...