Data Availability Policy

Policy Overview

The International Journal of Emerging Philosophy (IJEP) recognises that philosophical research is primarily text-based and does not typically involve empirical datasets in the manner common to experimental sciences. Nevertheless, IJEP is committed to the principles of open scholarship and encourages authors to make any supporting materials — including datasets, interview transcripts, textual corpora, or supplementary documentation — openly available wherever this is legally and ethically feasible.

Data Availability Statements

Authors are asked to include a brief Data Availability Statement at the end of their accepted manuscript. This statement should describe whether any data or materials supporting the published findings are available, where they can be found, and under what conditions they may be accessed. Where no data are associated with the submission (as will typically be the case for purely theoretical work), authors should state this explicitly.

Example statements

• “This article presents no empirical data. No data availability statement is applicable.”
• “The interview transcripts supporting this article are available in [Repository Name] at [URL/DOI] under a [licence type] licence.”
• “The data supporting this article cannot be made publicly available due to [ethical/legal restrictions]. Requests for access may be directed to [contact].”

Recommended Repositories

Authors who wish to deposit supporting materials are encouraged to use a recognised open-access repository such as:

• PhilArchive — for philosophical manuscripts and supplementary materials
• Zenodo — for a wide range of research outputs including datasets, code, and supplementary documents
• OSF (Open Science Framework) — for research data, pre-registrations, and materials
• Figshare — for datasets, figures, and supporting documents

Deposited materials should ideally be assigned a persistent identifier (such as a DOI) and made available under an open licence consistent with the CC BY 4.0 licence applied to IJEP articles.

Ethical and Legal Considerations

Authors are responsible for ensuring that any materials they share comply with applicable legal requirements (including copyright and data protection legislation) and with any ethical obligations arising from the research process (including participant confidentiality and institutional ethics approvals). Where materials cannot be shared openly for legal or ethical reasons, authors should state this clearly in the Data Availability Statement.