About the Journal

Journal History

The journal was founded in 2016 by Brill and DANS. CESSDA took over from Brill in 2021. DANS and CESSDA provided the funding that enabled the journal to publish in Diamond Open Access.

 

Aims & Scope

This is a peer-reviewed journal, which is designed to comprehensively document and publish deposited datasets and facilitate their online exploration. The journal aims to contribute to the transparency of research, accelerate dissemination and foster the reuse of scholarly data. RDJ is an e-only and Diamond Open Access journal. Articles are published in Open Access at no cost to the author. RDJ was founded by Brill and DANS in 2016. From 2021 the journal is funded and published in collaboration with CESSDA, the Consortium of European Social Science Data Archives.