Data sharing policy
Authors are encouraged to make the research data that support their publications available but are not required to do so. The decision to publish will not be affected by whether or not authors share their research data.
Definition of research data
This policy applies to the research data required to verify the results of research reported in articles published in the Historical Geography Journal. Research data include data produced by the authors (“primary data”) and data from other sources analysed by authors in their study (“secondary data”). Research data includes any recorded factual material used to produce the results in digital and non-digital form. This includes tabular data, code, images, audio, documents, video, maps, and raw and/or processed data.
Definition of exceptions
Data that is not a subject to public disclosure may be delivered as follows: deposited in science data repositories with limited access or preliminary anonymized. An author can also publicly deliver metadata only and/or description of the method of access to the data under requests from other scholars.
Data repositories
The preferred mechanism for sharing research data is via data repositories. Please see for help finding research data repositories.
Data citation
The editorial board of the Historical Geography Journal welcomes access to data under Creative Commons Licenses. The editorial board does not insist on the obligatory use of Creative Commons when the data is deposited in the repositories of the third party. The publisher of the Historical Geography Journal does not assert any copyright for the data submitted by the author together with the article.
Questions regarding the observation of this policy should be sent to the editorial board of the Historical Geography Journal (office@hist-geo.ru).
