Stage 8 – Putting the work where it can be found

This stage matters more when you work alone, because a repository is how work reaches someone who was not there when it was done. The git module supplies the practice that the taught day leaves out.

Work through	What you do	Timing
Social science data sources	Where the data behind the course came from and how you would obtain them yourself: the Eurobarometer waves at GESIS, the World Bank indicators, the panel on OSF. Then the map of the archives, survey programmes and statistical offices where the data for a project of your own are found, with the access route for each.	60 minutes
Reproducibility repositories	What a repository has to do and which to use for what, the code forges, the Open Science Framework and the move of its projects to read-only status in 2026–27, the three OSF nodes behind this case, how archives, forks and registrations differ, the preregistration templates, and the six-step route for depositing a reanalysis of your own.	90 minutes
Git and GitHub for reproducible research	Version control from first principles, a repository on your own machine, putting it online, and what belongs in git and what must never be committed.	2 hours

By the end of the stage you have the whole of your work in a version-controlled repository that another person can clone and re-render, with the licensed material kept out of it and a stated route to where it can be obtained.