Open science and open access

All of my papers are openly available, and much of my data and code as well. Check out my projects on OSF. For a recent example of fully open scholarship, from concept to analysis to publication, see playful iconicity.

I’m proud to work with Language Science Press, a visionary open access book publisher, as editor of the Conceptual Foundations of Language Science book series and board member of Studies in Diversity Linguistics.

New! As part of my work on the Executive Committee of the Association for Linguistic Typology, I built a new version of Grammar Watch, a place to find, read and cite open access grammatical descriptions. Visitor stats show this resource is used in tens of university courses around the world.

I’m a section editor at Collabra: Psychology, a mission-driven open access journal from the University of California Press. Submit your best work on human interaction and psycholinguistics!

As one of the consulting editors for Linguistics, I have helped shape the open science strategy of the journal together with Caroline Rowland and Volker Gast . Happily, the journal transformed to Diamond Open Access in 2022.

Software

Over the years I have contributed to several software projects and apps.

  • We’ve released SenseTest, a web app for testing cross-modal associations, as part of our National Survey of Language & Synaesthesia.
  • Our open data (and some of my code) has made it into synr, an R package for handling synaesthesia consistency test data
  • I’ve contributed to LingQuest, a public outreach app that helps players to discover similarities and differences in how languages sound. The game includes data on over 70 languages from around the world.
  • I led the team that designed the widely used Transcription Mode in ELAN, the annotation software developed at MPI Nijmegen (Dingemanse et al. 2012).

Zotero tutorial

A reference manager made by and for scholars, free and open source. I do not supervise students who don’t use a reference manager, and frequently Zotero is the first one they hear about (to my surprise and to their delight). Here’s a tutorial that I often use as a gentle introduction:

As a long-time Zotero user and open source software fan I have made quite a bunch of suggestions for improving the user interface, contributing to significant usability improvements. As the lead developer once wrote, “you’ve actually had more suggestions make it into Zotero that just about anyone else here”

Blogs and websites