Examples
Worked examples
- Is an instance
A psychology paper depositing all 200 stimulus images on OSF with a CC-BY licence.
- Is an instance
An education trial depositing the full intervention manual on a public repository.
Counter-examples
Looks similar, but isn't
- Not an instance
A figure of example stimuli in the paper without the underlying set.
- Not an instance
A code release alone.
Editorial commentary
Open materials is one of three pillars of the Open Practices Badges (alongside open data and pre-registration). What constitutes 'materials' depends on field: in psychology, the stimuli and instruction text; in education, lesson plans; in chemistry, synthesis procedures and reagent provenance.
References
- Kidwell et al., 'Badges to acknowledge open practices' (PLOS Biology, 2016).
Also known as
shared materials · open stimuli
Machine-readable encodings
Use in your systems
xml
<role vocab="credit"
vocab-identifier="https://casrai.org/dictionary/"
vocab-term="Open materials"
vocab-term-identifier="https://casrai.org/dictionary/term/open-materials" />json
{
"@context": "https://schema.org",
"@type": "DefinedTerm",
"@id": "https://casrai.org/dictionary/term/open-materials",
"name": "Open materials",
"identifier": "https://casrai.org/dictionary/term/open-materials",
"description": "The release of the non-data, non-code materials used in a study (stimuli, survey instruments, experimental protocols, training materials, intervention manuals) such that future investigators can re-implement the procedure.",
"inDefinedTermSet": "https://casrai.org/dictionary/domain/reproducibility#set",
"url": "https://casrai.org/dictionary/term/open-materials",
"sameAs": [
"shared materials",
"open stimuli"
],
"license": "https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/",
"publisher": {
"@id": "https://casrai.org/#organization"
},
"dateModified": "2026-05-21T02:22:49",
"inLanguage": "en"
}
